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The first ride I did with them was back in December and I completely blew up after 2hrs hard riding, then this last weekend it happened again after 2hrs 40mins, I did however have to add miles to join them and get home, so my ride was 100miles/5000ft/235w NP and 19.6mph. The final 30 miles though were terrible, barely able to put out any power and literally turning the pedals to get home.

Can you post the data file or at least the stats for the main segments of the ride (ride to the start, group ride until you got dropped, group ride after that (if you joined back on), and ride home)? The key stats would be time, average speed, average power, NP and IF.

Your FTP is only an indicator of 40 to 70 minute power. As the duration gets longer you will have your NP drop significantly below that. Every bit of energy you expense before and after that group ride is going to cause your NP to drop further.

I have always marveled at the concept of fasting in 21st century consumerist America. As a little girl, my church made a big deal about fasting, but I saw many participants of these fasts misinterpret the true meaning of what it means to go hungry before God.

16 Whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face.

Fasting is one of the most misinterpreted spiritual disciplines in the church. Many believers view fasting as a giving up of food or television, yet they stop there. They do not know why they are releasing their right to pleasure and sustenance. At its core, fasting is trading a dependence upon something physical for God alone.

You and your group members can hold each other accountable to your fast, and you can also encourage one another along the way. Nevertheless, I believe Jesus calls us to take very seriously privacy within our relationship with God. There are some secrets that are only meant for God and myself, whispers of the heart that I share with only Him.

You can just use the basic formulas for calculating slope and regression. lm does a lot of unnecessary things if all you care about are those two numbers. Here I use data.table for the aggregation, but you could do it in base R as well (or dplyr):

If all you want is coefficients, I'd just use user_id as a factor in the regression. Using @miles2know's simulated data code (though renaming since an object other than exp() sharing that name looks weird to me)

I did just try this on @nrussell's simulated full-size data and ran into memory allocation issues. Depending on how much memory you have it may not work in one go, but you could probably do it in batches of user ids. Some combination of his answer and my answer might be the fastest overall---or nrussell's might just be faster---expanding the user id factor into thousands of dummy variables might not be computationally efficient, as I've been waiting more than a couple minutes now for a run on just 5000 user ids.

Update: As pointed out by Dirk, my original approach can be greatly improved upon by specifying x and Y directly rather than using the formula-based interface of fastLm, which incurs (a fairly significant) processing overhead. For comparison, using the original full size data set,

You might give this a try using data.table like this. I've just created some toy data but I'd imagine data.table would give some improvement. It's quite speedy. But that is quite a large data-set so perhaps benchmark this approach on a smaller sample to see if the speed is a lot better. good luck.

this topic is more for Racing, and it seem like you are talking about a group ride. Group rides does not have different starting categories. but you are correct a D group ride should be at lower watts, but different D group rides has different w/kg ranges.

Note the advertised target is an average of the event, not a hard speed limit as such, so you will always get people doing say 30-50% higher on hills, for example. And its really important to hang-on to a group as the bigger groups create more draft. Once you are dropped, its hard to get back unless the group ride has active sweepers.

Hello Moiez, Happy to connect. I have also got the book and doing the quiz. Currently, I am on chapter 2 of the book. Based on JST and EDT time zone I will set up sometime this weekend to connect and share knowledge.

Thanks, @Barto I have joined the discord, and I have created this session to get to know the people who are currently in a new learning phase and the issues they are facing. @marcin.wizgird, instead of biweekly, I am thinking of hosting 1 session every month to cover at least two to three lessons.

@Rudra12 , I will recommend so that we create relative session plan in terms of topics being covered for the next two months. The participants - as I assume - would draw the biggest value for answering question floated by the group members, showcasing our projects and solution to the exercises. Covering all of these elements even for one lesson may occur to be quite challenging :). Therefore, my suggestion is to keep weekly sessions :).

For the last 5 years, I have been running the 15K hot chocolate run with a friend. We have been late to start the race for the last two years so ended up running with folks that are much slower than our speed. As soon as I crossed the start line, I started passing people left and right. At first, it was a great feeling, but then I started getting blocked to run any faster as there were simply too many walkers.

What I learned is wherever I am, I can either choose to get in my own way (with self doubt or imagined pressure or focus on the slowness) or be the best I can be. I have the choice to enjoy my work and do my best, so why not just do that and not over-think it?

In December 2015, President Obama signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST) Act which provides long-term surface transportation funding. Section 5502 of the (FAST) Act requires the Department of Transportation to create an Emergency Route Working Group (ERWG). The purpose of the ERWG is to provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation on best practices for expeditious State approval of special permits for vehicles involved in emergency response and recovery.

The Department is establishing the ERWG through the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), doing so enables us to consult with outside groups for advice in developing a report on best practices and will ensure Congress and the general public remain informed of the purpose, membership, and activities of the advisory group.

On August 24, 2016, a Notice was published in the Federal Register indicating procedures for nomination for ERWG membership. That notice can be viewed at -20233/emergency-route-working-group-erwg-federal-advisory-committee.

Sparse Group Lasso is a method of linear regression analysis that finds sparse parameters in terms of both feature groups and individual features.Block Coordinate Descent is a standard approach to obtain the parameters of Sparse Group Lasso, and iteratively updates the parameters for each parameter group.However, as an update of only one parameter group depends on all the parameter groups or data points, the computation cost is high when the number of the parameters or data points is large.This paper proposes a fast Block Coordinate Descent for Sparse Group Lasso.It efficiently skips the updates of the groups whose parameters must be zeros by using the parameters in one group.In addition, it preferentially updates parameters in a candidate group set, which contains groups whose parameters must not be zeros.Theoretically, our approach guarantees the same results as the original Block Coordinate Descent.Experiments show that our algorithm enhances the efficiency of the original algorithm without any loss of accuracy.

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There are two types of fasts, an absolute fast and a defined fast. Absolute fasts are when food and water are denied for a short period of time for a specific reason. In contrast, a defined fast is when one might give up sugar, meat, bread, or another food item for a specified amount of time, also for a specific reason. Most Christians today partake in defined fasts and do fasts in groups more than individually.

In a defined fast, a food item chosen should be something special but not dietary unyielding, complex, or cumbersome but something that alerts your senses to another direction. This direction is the Lord. His guidance, His love, and His direction for your life and for your group. If your group wants to fast, find something you all can do without, have a meal or a snack together where this item is obviously missed, like spaghetti without bread or a hamburger without the bun, then address the issue of its omission. Prayer is also a part of fasting. You may do it personally or collectively when your small group is fasting.

Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10 has this feature called "Fast Startup" (or "fast boot", "hybrid statup", "hybrid shutdown", and so on...) which doesn't actually shut down the computer when you tell it to do so, instead putting it in a sort of hybernation, in order to speed up boot time.

For these and other reasons, I'd like to be able to manage Fast Startup using Group Policies; however, the only policy I could find about this (Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Shutdown\Require use of fast startup) can only be used to force the use of Fast Startup, but not to disable it: its description explicitly states that if you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the local setting is used.

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