Author: trenthead
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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…
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The Hunt for Russian Collaborators in Ukraine | The New Yorker
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The Hunt for Russian Collaborators in Ukraine As occupied territories are liberated, some residents face accusations that they sided with the enemy. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/the-hunt-for-russian-collaborators-in-ukraine The next morning, the soldiers came back into the cellar. “We’re taking you to the Chechens,” one of them said. “They like the ones who aren’t talkative.” The Chechens were based in another house whose…
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Some Wagner Convict Fighters in Ukraine Are Returning to Russia – The New York Times
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‘Very Dangerous People’: Russia’s Convict Fighters Are Heading Home Tens of thousands of inmates have joined a mercenary group fighting with the Kremlin’s decimated forces in Ukraine. Some of them are returning to civilian life with military training and, in many cases, battlefield traumas. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/world/europe/wagner-convict-ukraine-russia.html “These are psychologically broken people who are returning with…
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Twenty Three Week Four
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It took 79 months to get to that screen. Media: Much needed winter comedy from Paul T. Goldman (TV), Detroiters, S1 (TV), You People (film). Couldn’t bring myself to actually watch Milf Manor (TV) so I watched Cody Ko’s recap. Most disturbing forest encounters (youtube). That is a lot of fluff, compared to this horrific…