Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Heading to Zero

This is a graph.

This is a graph of many things.

Think of it as divided by ~12 so that the maximum is 1. (11.6283 to 6 significant figures)

What does this graph represent? Depends on what you make the x-axis and y-axis.
The y-axis is benefit, productivity, utility, all things good.

When I originally created this graph, it was 8 hours of sleep +/- the x-axis in hours.  So, 0 = 8 hours of sleep.  As you can clearly see, there is tremendous benefit from sleeping 8 hours, though you can function at 6 or 10.
At 6.8 hours and 9.2 hours, its bad news.

What else is this? A semester's productivity.  From the left-most zero to the right-most zero and x is time. Unfortunately, I'm on the right-most side of the graph.  Passed the peak.  I'm heading for zero.  Fast.

I can't wait to ski and run over graphs like this...

Plus, this is proof that you need to let Nathan get 8 hours of sleep for optimal performance.

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