Aufstiegssaison am Mount Everest startet mit Tracking-Pflicht
Hunderte Bergsteiger wollen 2024 versuchen, den Mount Everest zu besteigen. Doch das Streben nach dem Gipfel hat Nepal auch Kritik eingebracht - zu viele durften den Aufstieg wagen. Ein neues Lösungskonzept überzeugt längst nicht alle. Von Peter Hornung.
When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest in May 1953, a courier named Ten Tsewang Sherpa ran 200 miles to the British Embassy in Kathmandu to deliver the news. A few weeks later, he died. Outside's contributing editor, Peter Frick-Wright, went to Nepal to meet his family, figure out what happened, and tell his extraordinary story. [Article may be paywalled]
People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.
It seems like #OpenAI started marking their own generated text a few months ago. One of the telltale red flags is curiously whether the article contains an out of context fun fact about Mount Everest being 46,449 bananas tall.
This is likely the closest I will ever get to Mount Everest. I took this last year, from the window of a plane. I was given the option to fly to Everest base camp in a helicopter but this was a quarter of the price and felt a lot safer.
Most of the people who die on #MountEverest are just left up there. It's too dangerous in the "death zone" to try to remove them. Climbers regularly walk past other dead and dying climbers during their own ascent. Some of the dead have nicknames like Green Boots.
2023 has been one of the deadliest years on record for climbing Mount Everest
Vor 70 Jahren wurde erstmals der Mount Everest erklommen
Heute vor 70 Jahren ist es zwei Bergsteigern zum ersten Mal gelungen, den Mount Everest zu erklimmen. Inzwischen leidet die Natur dort unter der Menge an Touristen, ihrem Müll und vor allem: dem Klimawandel. Von Charlotte Horn.
• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 👨🔬 states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced#technology is indistinguishable from #magic.
When the great British explorer George Mallory was asked in 1924 why he wanted to climb #MountEverest 🏔️, he replied, “because it’s there.” It sounds silly, but the challenge of what is there that we have not yet managed to conquer will always have a special attraction for humans. The thirst to be the first to conquer a challenge is one of the main factors that defines our species. We want to know what’s out there. And #space 🌌 ... is there. https://english.elpais.com/opinion/the-global-observer/2023-05-31/a-gold-rush-in-space.html