So I'm reading The Hacker's Diet, specifically the part called "Signal & Noise" (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/). I don't have a strong statistics background (only made it through Intro to Stats in uni) so I want to make sure I understand some of what Walker is saying when he talks about exponentially smoothed moving…
Quick background: was very active as a child, in fact was slightly underweight when I first left home (5'8" and 120 lb). Cooking for myself quickly changed that and I eventually got up to 220 lb and stayed there for close to a decade. Over the last 2 years I have got down to 155 lb simply by changing what I eat -- I…