Month: February 2023
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The Himalayan Tragedy That Forever Changed Mountaineering – Outside Online
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The Himalayan Tragedy That Forever Changed Mountaineering In 1976, Nanda Devi Unsoeld, the daughter of legendary alpinist Willi Unsoeld, died while climbing the massive Indian peak for which she was named. Decades later, friends, family, and surviving expedition members offer new insights into what went wrong during this controversial adventure, shedding light on an enigmatic…
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Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future | The New Yorker
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Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future ChatGPT is in the spotlight, but it’s Whisper—OpenAI’s open-source speech-transcription program—that shows us where machine learning is going. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/whispers-of-ais-modular-future Despite being one of the more sophisticated programs ever to run on my laptop, Whisper.cpp is also one of the simplest. If you showed its source code…