alt Hacker NewsThe bottleneck might be the air in the room
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Matches my experience. Basement home offices are the worst offenders.
Interesting.
Perhaps using non-ozone negative ionizers would also help.
The practical bottleneck for most AI tooling isn't model capability anymore - it's the orchestration layer. Getting reliable behavior across edge cases requires more engineering than people expect from demos.
I can feel the AI in the text.
Are there studies which analyze performance Vs artificial CO2?
Natural CO2 in a room probably correlates strongly with other things given off by humans... Farts, water vapour, viruses, etc.
The effect needs to be properly understood before totally redesigning the nations ventilation systems on a possibly wrong premise.
The really uncomfortable part is that 1000 ppm isn’t that far off from how EARTH will be. A terrifying scenario that will be like Total Recall with people clamoring for and paying for fresh air. Those that can’t will be permanently in a stupor.
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/earth-indicators/carb...
The building science community has not buy and large came to the agreement that the CO2 itself is the cause of the cognitive decline. It could be the Canary in the coal mine telling us there is an accumulation of compounds causing the decline.
Why that matters? You need good ventilation regardless, but instead of just thinking of CO2, try to minimize compounds in your air by selecting things for the room that smell less and off-gas less.
Similar to this a closed motorcycle helmet without air circulation increases CO2 extremely rapidly, within 60s it's already at really high levels. Open your visor when you stop!
if price is no object get the AirGradient PM2.5+CO2
but Ikea now makes the most affordable PM2.5+CO2 sensor, at $35 a no-brainer
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/alpstuga-air-quality-sensor-sma...
in there is a very nice/expensive Sensirion SN63C sensor that costs nearly as much as the Ikea itself
https://sensirion.com/company/news/press-releases-and-news/a...
unfortunately Ikea requires Matter network not plain wifi for communication so I've been looking for a cheap Matter hub or DIY SPR
i love seeing things i saw on twitter two years ago at the front page of hn man like what are we doing
if I travel and expect to be working I now bring a CO2 meter
I am able to open the windows at home and at work but have to be reminded to air out, but I always feel much clearer when I do.
Also, take walks. I am lucky to be able to walk to and from work and it helps immensely.
You know what also impacts my decision making ability? Freezing my ass off because people are opening all the windows every five minutes.
Wow, what a revelation. People rediscover basic things in life :D.
Just open the door
open a window, wait, ok, ok, turn up the , wait, no, ummm, hmmmmm re, re, no forget that, hmmm anyway, as a person with a strong interest in civil engineering, systems, and the subset of air handling, I can say that there has long been disenting arguments about how things are built,that have been ignored due to cost, which are large in terms of internal volumes required, and the intractable issues around, noise, filtration, heating/cooling and maintenance. And as the climate warms, and in many areas pollution increases , the inadequate methods used to "calculate" requirements, get further from real world needs. You could try throwing a desk through a window, but as that is one of the things the planners and engineers have antisipated, it will prove to be surprisingly difficult.
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Yet another reason to have meetings while walking outside: air quality and a natural limit on time, and the mental benefits that come from movement.
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> You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions.
A terrible way to make decisions.
Topic must be very interesting to have this much discussion on an obviously AI-written article. I couldn’t get past the first few sentences.