During week 4 of the 2024 ACC General Mountaineering Camp, longtime GMC participant and camp lover Thierry Levenq reached a significant milestone—his 100th GMC summit—on an outing to climb the stunning Serendipity Spire in the Selkirk Mountains.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come along way in the past decade. The vastly improved capabilities of large-scale vision-language models like CLIP and ChatGPT have allowed them to perform reasonably well in a wide range of tasks, but this versatility sometimes comes at a cost.
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In Gaza, where banknotes are in short supply, Palestinians are forced to digitally transfer money to men known as exchangers who give them cash after taking a large cut for themselves. What's left doesn't stretch very far as wartime inflation has sharply increased the price of scarce food and essentials.
New generation British paramotor pilots Bruce Daniels and Daniel Jones have joined Vittorazi's paramotor racing team
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Rain means a ruined flying day for many pilots. So why do we want to know more about rain besides it's wet and unflyable?
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We hope our horrifically un-scientific test will offer a foggy indicating of the best tasting stouts for you to hunt down in the boozer or the supermarket in lieu of Guinness
Crude oil exports from the United States to Europe are set to dip next month amid a tightening spread between West Texas Intermediate and Brent, Reuters has reported, citing commodity analysts. U.S. oil exports to Europe hit an all-time high in November, at 771,000 barrels daily, but since then the price difference has been shrinking, reaching $3.40 per barrel in the past couple of days. This is the smallest closing spread between the two since October last year, Reuters noted in its report. “A discount of $4... Читать дальше...
Mortgage rates could still fall next year, but economic uncertainty is clouding the outlook.
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The hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer.
Something funny happened during the time that I spent writing my book: I stopped reading for pleasure. Not because I wanted to, but because I was reading so much for research that reading began to feel like work. But then my book came out, and I traveled around the country giving book talks at lovely […]
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