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QS Toronto - Waiting list opens! - Hi all,
Our Meetup is two days away and we are excited to see the RSVP numbers go up. At the moment our event is sold out. To make sure all who want to participate can RSVP we have enabled a waiting list on our system. If you changed your min
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Carlos Rizo
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May 22, 2013
9:59 AM
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Yesterday's 1st Lunch & Learn Update - Hi all,
Thanks to our sponsor The Centre for Global eHealth Innovation (eHealthinnovation.org) and to all of those who participated in our first QS Lunch & Learn. It was a success!
For sure food will always brings a crowd together y
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Carlos Rizo
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Mar 28, 2013
12:44 PM
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QS Toronto is Tonight - Waiting List Opens - Hi all,
Our Meetup is hours away and we are excited to see the RSVP numbers go up. To make sure all who want to participate can RSVP we have enabled a waiting list on our system. If you changed your mind about tonight please update your RSVP st
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Carlos Rizo
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Jan 23, 2013
10:38 AM
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RE: [quantifiedself-toronto] Toronto Three Day iPhone/iPad IOS 6 Certificate Intensive Workshop - January 25-27 -
Great idea, Eric has made the changes to enable this featur
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Alan Majer
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Jan 22, 2013
2:05 PM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] Toronto Three Day iPhone/iPad IOS 6 Certificate Intensive Workshop - January 25-27 - You can set the messages to moderated. That's what I do for my Knowledge Workers Toronto Meetups. Those guys have moved on to posting using a different account each time. They just tried to spam my groups too - but moderation caught them.
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Martin Cleaver
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Jan 22, 2013
1:22 PM
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RE: [quantifiedself-toronto] Toronto Three Day iPhone/iPad IOS 6 Certificate Intensive Workshop - January 25-27 -
Done. He is banned.
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Alan Majer
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Jan 22, 2013
1:05 PM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] Toronto Three Day iPhone/iPad IOS 6 Certificate Intensive Workshop - January 25-27 - Can we ban this guy please? I remember Eric did last year, not sure how he got in again. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Jones Paul < jones.paul88
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Gareth MacLeod
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Jan 22, 2013
1:03 PM
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Toronto Three Day iPhone/iPad IOS 6 Certificate Intensive Workshop - January 25-27 -
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Jones Paul
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Jan 22, 2013
12:50 PM
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Hurry Up! 10 spots still open for Quantified Self Toronto - Hi there,
Our upcoming Quantified Self Toronto meetup promises to be our biggest one so far. We are excited to see 55 RSVPs with only 10 more spots available. Please let us know if your plans change so others can join us.
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Carlos Rizo
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Jan 17, 2013
2:45 PM
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2013 QS Europe Conference - Limited Time Discount - Hi There!
The QS Conferences are great opportunities to learn more about QS, engage with other awesome self-trackers, and see new an unique tools and technologies. The 201
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Carlos Rizo
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Jan 11, 2013
4:35 PM
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Happy New Year! - Dear members,
On behalf of all our QS Toronto organizers we hope you had a good holiday and beginning of 2013. Our next meetup is coming up soon . Please book your calendars for January 23 fr
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Carlos Rizo
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Jan 11, 2013
1:22 PM
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RE: [quantifiedself-toronto] Toronto iPhone/iPad Boot Camp: Three Day IOS 6.0 Certificate Intensive Workshop - Nov 30-Dec 2 -
Apologies for the spam. This member has been deleted from Q
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Alan Majer
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Oct 24, 2012
5:33 PM
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Mind control to Majer fun..... - I'm a member of this meetup (have met most of you I think) and also co-organise another meetup: Girl Geeks Toronto, so please forgive the cross-promotion on this one occasion. (I don't make a habit of it!)
This Monday we (Girl
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Rachel Lane
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Jul 5, 2012
11:11 PM
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the quantified team -
Here's a nice example, from Mozilla, of gathering data on a team's
performance on a critical metric. In this case it's Firefox's notoriously
bad memory useage:
https://areweslimyet.com/
I guess tracking metrics like this is hardly unusual in
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Michael Nielsen
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Apr 4, 2012
6:46 AM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] computational quantified self -
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Chris Olah wrote:
>> Following up on Eric's comment, a physicist friend of mine did an
>> interesting experiment along the lines of the computational quantified self.
>> He and some collaborators were using version control s
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Michael Nielsen
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Mar 19, 2012
7:13 PM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] computational quantified self - > Following up on Eric's comment, a physicist friend of mine did an
> interesting experiment along the lines of the computational quantified self.
> He and some collaborators were using version control software to write up a
> paper. He wrote some sc
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Chris Olah
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Mar 19, 2012
5:58 PM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] computational quantified self -
Following up on Eric's comment, a physicist friend of mine did an
interesting experiment along the lines of the computational quantified
self. He and some collaborators were using version control software to
write up a paper. He wrote some scr
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Michael Nielsen
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Mar 19, 2012
2:40 PM
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computational quantified self - http://quantifiedself.com/2012 /03/the-computational-quantified-self-a-qa-with-stephen-wolfram/
I'm super interested in this idea of computational quantified self,
having systems that automatically gather and analyze data about us,
which we can then
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Eric Boyd
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Mar 16, 2012
12:54 PM
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mediation study opportunity - Hey, I got a message from InteraXon, a "thought controlled computing"
company, they are looking for volunteers to participate in a mediation /
brain waves study. Thought it might be of interest to quantified self
members. You'll get to see what yo
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Eric Boyd
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Mar 12, 2012
2:04 PM
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Quantified Stephen Wolfram - http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/
He has enormous piles of data about himself and his activities,
including every email he's ever sent or received, all the keystrokes
he's made, every calendar event, detailed
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Eric Boyd
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Mar 10, 2012
10:00 AM
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[Reminder]: Quantified Self Toronto is tomorrow - Hi all,
This a friendly reminder to join us for our #10 edition of Quantified Self Toronto
When: at 7:00 PM
Where: at 221 Yonge St., Toronto, ON (Network Orange)
Who: 47 other
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Carlos Rizo
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Feb 29, 2012
8:48 PM
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Anyone going to hackinghealth in Montreal? - hackinghealth is a very cool event, sponsored by QS and others. Their goal is to bridge the gap between doctorsand hackers to upgrade health care.
Here is the event "wiki": http://hackinghealth.sparkboard.org/#projects
H
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Carlos Rizo
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Feb 23, 2012
4:25 PM
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Quantified Self Conference: Sept 15-16, Stanford - http://quantifiedself.com/2012/02/announcing-the-quantified-self-conference-2012
Registration is US$399 for now (prices may go up later). 600 people
will be in attendance, and I'll be one of them! It looks like they are
running it very similar to
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Eric Boyd
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Feb 14, 2012
10:40 AM
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Sacha on QuantifiedSelf.com - http://quantifiedself.com/2012/02/sacha-chua-on-tracking-time/
Loren told me that the other 4 videos he has will all be going up soon
as well :-). So watch quantifiedself.com for more Toronto videos over
the next week or two!
Eric
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Eric Boyd
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Feb 13, 2012
4:47 PM
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Research on Quantified Self - Hello QS Toronto,
Please excuse the email blast but I'm hoping that this will reach some members of the group who might be interested in participating in a research project that I'm currently involved in. I talked about this research at the meeting in
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Brian
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Jan 25, 2012
2:55 PM
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photo ID question - Hey, I've got another video where I can't figure out the name of the
speaker. See attached photo. He actually says his name at the start of
the video, but unfortunately there is a lot of noise and I just can't
figure it out (Malocos?)! So yeah, i
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Eric Boyd
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Jan 25, 2012
11:43 AM
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first video up! - http://quantifiedself.com/2011/12/rob-della-fortuna-on-losing-weight-with-social-networks
I haven't watched it, but I'm super stoked that our first video is
finally up on the QS blog!
Eric
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Eric Boyd
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Dec 22, 2011
12:00 AM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] QS and personal trainers - Hi Michael,
I am certified as a personal trainer (PTS) but do not train people in a
gym. I use it to give corrective exercises to my acupuncture patients.
So, if you want to talk to me about what you are doing, I would be happy
to do so, and can gi
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Chris Upwood
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Dec 7, 2011
11:58 AM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] QS and personal trainers - Michael,
I've been doing this kind of thing for the last four months. I had a
personal trainer for 9 sessions (lasted about a month), and I got a lot
of value (I didn't have much experience in the gym, so I needed a lot of
guidance), but I do ag
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Eric Boyd
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Dec 7, 2011
10:43 AM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] New QS App! - Gareth, Pretty cool -- is this a free service or do I get charged for the sms traffic? Thanks! Ameet On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Gareth MacLeod <
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Ameet Mehta
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Dec 7, 2011
2:06 AM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] QS and personal trainers - I have a personal trainer, who I think is pretty good. My brief at the gym was "I do NOT want some ridiculously macho trainer who tries to push me too hard!" ;) I'm open to testing tools and also being benchmarked against
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Rachel Lane
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Dec 6, 2011
11:29 PM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] New QS App! - In a horrible twist of fate, my service provider (Google) just went down for some maintenance, so the service will be unavailable for a few hours. Give it a shot Wednesday morning and it should be back!
On Tue, Dec 6, 2
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Gareth MacLeod
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Dec 6, 2011
9:47 PM
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QS and personal trainers -
Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone on list has any experience with good personal
trainers in Toronto who take (or are friendly to) a data-driven / QS-style
approach to personal training? My experience with physios, trainers and
so on in the past
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Michael Nielsen
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Dec 6, 2011
8:50 PM
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New QS App! - Hey All, I've met a bunch of you at the last few meet-ups. For those of you who I haven't met, I'm a software engineer, and I've been experimenting with building my own QS tools for the past year or so. One of them is lo
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Gareth MacLeod
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Dec 6, 2011
7:52 PM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] identification in QS videos - We're going to be on QS.com? That's awesome! Is the whole section where I had to reboot my computer and we chitchatted about movies and restaurants going to be in the video too? :p
On Thu, Nov
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Gareth MacLeod
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Nov 10, 2011
3:55 PM
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identification in QS videos - Hey QSers! We're almost ready to post up the videos from the #6 meetup
(from over two months ago), but I can't remember the name of one of the
speakers! Help me out:
http://www.meetup.com/quantifiedself-toronto/messages/boards/thread/17677512
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Eric Boyd
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Nov 10, 2011
3:48 PM
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Next Toronto iPhone/iPad IOS Three Day Intensive Boot Camp October 21-23 - Some seats still available at Early Bird - Preview not available
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Jonathan Sarno
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Oct 7, 2011
1:10 PM
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Next Toronto iPhone/iPad IOS Three Day Intensive Boot Camp October 21-23 - Some seats still available at Early Bird - Preview not available
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Jonathan Sarno
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Sep 23, 2011
11:31 AM
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New Meetup: 3rd Quantified Self Toronto - Announcing a new Meetup for Quantified Self Toronto! What : 3rd Quantified Self Toronto When : Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:00 PM
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Carlos Rizo
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Dec 8, 2010
12:34 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Hi all, We are ready for our second meetup tomorrow at site 3. The session tomorrow will be unstructured for the most part with the regular 'show and tells'. It will be great to see some familiar faces and meet new members. If you are still un
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Carlos Rizo
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Nov 30, 2010
1:33 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Hello everyone, We have experienced some technical difficulties with our Quantified Self Toronto site and wanted follow up to make sure you are all aware of the upcoming meetup. As you may already know we have secured Site 3 coLaboratory (
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Carlos Rizo
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Nov 19, 2010
1:06 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Great news!!! We have secured a site for our next Quantified Self meetup in Toronto. Here are the details: WHEN: December 1st, 2010 at 7:00 PM. WHERE: Site 3 coLaboratory ( http:/
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Carlos Rizo
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Nov 5, 2010
2:08 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Hi all, Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your kind words. We're glad to know you enjoyed our inaugural event and look forward to the next. We're trying to secure a date and a venue for our next meetup. All suggestions are welcome. Al
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 29, 2010
1:12 PM
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Do you have ideas for our next Quantified Self Toronto Meetup? - Quantified Self Toronto needs your help with ideas for our next Meetup! If you have suggestions about a venue to meet, an activity, or anything else -- please let us know! You can suggest an idea here:
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 28, 2010
5:49 AM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Hi all, A short thank you note to all Quantified Self Toronto members. In my books our first meetup was a success. Stay tuned for a blog post and details of the next meetup. Best to all, Carlos on behalf of the organizi
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 28, 2010
5:47 AM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Starting!!!
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 27, 2010
7:01 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Hi everybody, It's only 27 hours until Quantified Self Toronto. Venue is ready. We have 17 people confirmed, 2 coming from abroad. Food (Espresso beverages and healthy food) will be available for purchase. We will have a projector ready in cas
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 26, 2010
3:45 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Hi there, Hope you all had a good weekend. We are 2 days away from Toronto QS and we wanted to make a heads count. So far 9 of you will be joining us on Wednesday night. Please let us know if your plans change to act accordingly. M
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 25, 2010
2:30 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Hi everybody, Thanks for your messages. It's glad to know that some of you are ready to try the water self-experiment. Some of you asked for instructions so here are three: 1. Just drink a bit more water than you normally
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 23, 2010
5:04 PM
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Re: [quantifiedself-toronto] Carlos Rizo added a post - Sounds interesting, Carlos, but how much more water should we be drinking? As it is, I drink a lot of water in a day. Sent from my iPhone On 2010-10-21, at 9:34 PM, Carlos Rizo <
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user 12994201
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Oct 22, 2010
11:55 AM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Wondering if in the spirit of quantified self you would like to try one experiment with water, the universal solvent. I'd like to challenge you all to drink more water than you normally drink and report your findings to the group on Wednesday October 27.
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 21, 2010
9:34 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Just came back for a site visit. Eric and I inspected the venue and think we are ready for the 27th. We'll have a projector in case you want to share your slides, photos, apps. There will be coffee and food for purchase. We're limited to 52 people. We wil
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 12, 2010
6:05 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - More good news! Our event was cited on a #quantifiedself article in yesterday's National Post. Check the link to Kathryn Carlson's article http://bit.ly/czQUzd .
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 3, 2010
2:53 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - A bit more about the venue: To Go Foodbar is a bright coffee bar and sandwich shop located in Rosedale arcross from Summerhill subway station. Illy coffee is served, and sandwiches, soups and baked goods are made fresh daily.
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Carlos Rizo
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Oct 1, 2010
1:22 PM
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Carlos Rizo added a post - Very close to securing a venue for QuantifiedSelf Toronto. I'll keep you all posted.
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Carlos Rizo
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Sep 28, 2010
2:01 PM
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Meetup details changed: Quantified Self Toronto Meetup - I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://www.meetup.com/quantifiedself-toronto/calendar/14687444/ When : Wednesday, October
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Carlos Rizo
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Sep 9, 2010
7:33 PM
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