After, looking for other sports, I got a little bit into rugby. Interesting.. The sport is a bit aggressive and I feel like teenager when I play because you can run through people and care about nothing. Also, you if you do a mistake or if you don’t know a rule, it’s still fine because experienced players didn’t know about those either. Very friendly sport, after each training we had a pint or two and chat about life for a bit. I still felt I needed something different that will be less impactful on my brain, I didn’t really like the impacts on the body and brain of rugby and also I didn’t really connected with the rugby culture, that I had to drink pints and do silly things. My club were not doing too many silly things but I still didn’t feel that connected.

After getting suggested (online), by Jocko Willink, Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan that everyone should do/try BJJ I said, enough is enough, I need to try it. I checked for a big school near me, 25 minutes away from me, not bad. The first classes were a bit scary.. I wasn’t sure if I should get out of the car. After that I felt like I joined a new family. Some people will see me, as a big boy, and be like let’s roll, because they want to see if their technique is working on a human on my size. Very interesting. I got obsessed and I am training 3-5 times a week now, my weight lifting plan is arranged to be for improving my grappling and I also bought some instructionals to watch while I am chilling. And also a flograppling membership to watch the pros competing. I feel Brazilian jiu jitsu is a growing sport and I think it is a benefit to everyone to learn or at least to try and make their mind think like, wtf? why this little man can pin me on the floor or even choke me?

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The current state-of-the-art in assisted living relies on a blend of wearable sensing technologies (smart watches, wristbands) and location tracking technologies embedded in the existing environment. Nevertheless, real-world deployments of wearable technologies have had only limited success for the elderly. The aim on this study is to explore a new paradigm where the daily activities of people are monitored passively through sensing technologies that are not embedded within environment, without the need of any form of wearable device or active use intervention.

To achieve this, we intend to run this data collection with 20 healthy participants, and we are going to use the labelled audio data we collected to build a Machine Learning Algorithm. The aim of the algorithm is to detect daily activities in a single occupancy household with the future aim of applying it in the context of elderly individuals to monitor their wellbeing (although this is not the focus of the current study).

To reach that point, we aim to run an initial study involving healthy individuals who are asked to generate acoustic data for their daily activities.

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