New and Experienced Climbers over 50 #34

Mark Frumkinwrote:

TDS is linear!

FTFY. You’re welcome!

What is TDS & I did not say that! 

Tahquitz Decimal System

got out on the ice today with a youngster. I really didnt feel that well and was missing the extra hour of sleep.  Ice was brittle. I led the first pitch of Glass Menagerie WI5 that little speck up there is me. 

Reed arriving at belay. 

I wasn't feeling it so we bailed

I am sick of being sick so finally did a sauna. Its been at least a month so chopping the hole was arduous. 

Water was silky smooth.

Nick, if it were me -- sick and exhausted -- I'd have skipped the hole and gone straight for the sauna.

Nice Nick! Are you feeling better? How is Isa?

Great minds must think alike. I’ve been sick five or six weeks, in the ER once, and whatever it is just keeps repeating. I thought I was mostly better yesterday so I went for a hike, got home and went right back to bed. I had a climbing date scheduled this morning and almost canceled, but I figured something has to break this spell.

I was really surprised that these routes felt effortless and free today. If I’d wanted to bet on it, I would’ve laid my money on not being able to get one foot off the ground. I would’ve lost my money.  Hang in there! 

after this ordeal, I am now going to be the vaccine queen. I’ve really had a complete change of heart.” I’ll have two of each.”  

Jonny Lang… a lot lately. 

The water feels much better than the sauna. The hot air hurts my lungs but I need the heat to get my body ready for the ice plunge. When you go under the water when there's ice on top of it it's like a coocoon. Enveloping.  Isa is almost better. She sounds better than I do. It seems like I can climb rock pretty well when I don't feel good. You can have an out of body experience and float up rock. Ice is a different story. Ice is full contact MMA kind of shit and it really takes a toll on me if I am not 100 percent. 

Lori, days like that are hard to predict, as are 'opposite' days. I've had days when I'm tired, stressed, not feeling good---and the climbing has just flowed--seemingly without effort. But there have been other days when I'm well-rested, stoked, yet struggle even on familiar warm-ups. It has been like that for as long as I have been climbing. I tried to discern the 'magic formula' but no luck!!!! The only answer is to enjoy the days that 'work', and move past the ones that don't.

responding to a prompt from Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini, Musk's "maximally truth-seeking" AI, which is built into X, said after an analysis that the probability of the president being in the pocket of Vladimir Putin is between 75 and 85 percent.

After Montini asked Grok to rate on a scale from 1 to 100 that Trump is a "Putin compromised asset" based on public information and his "failure to ever say anything negative" about the Russian president, the chatbot went to work analyzing a "complex web of financial ties, personal interactions, political behavior, and circumstantial evidence."

Weighing the real estate magnate's dealings with both pre- and post-Soviet officials, the KGB, and the Russian mobs, Grok said that although there is no "smoking gun [that] proves direct control," there's a good chance that Trump is a "useful idiot" for Putin — especially given that "Trump’s ego and debts make him unwittingly pliable."

"Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85 percent likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset," the chatbot said, "leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties."

Though this is obviously not the first time Trump has been accused of being a Putin puppet, and most certainly won't be the last, it's hilariously ironic that the chatbot funded by his alleged "co-president" is talking such deep smack.

Nick Goldsmithwrote:

responding to a prompt from Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini, Musk's "maximally truth-seeking" AI, which is built into X, said after an analysis that the probability of the president being in the pocket of Vladimir Putin is between 75 and 85 percent.

After Montini asked Grok to rate on a scale from 1 to 100 that Trump is a "Putin compromised asset" based on public information and his "failure to ever say anything negative" about the Russian president, the chatbot went to work analyzing a "complex web of financial ties, personal interactions, political behavior, and circumstantial evidence."

Weighing the real estate magnate's dealings with both pre- and post-Soviet officials, the KGB, and the Russian mobs, Grok said that although there is no "smoking gun [that] proves direct control," there's a good chance that Trump is a "useful idiot" for Putin — especially given that "Trump’s ego and debts make him unwittingly pliable."

"Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85 percent likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset," the chatbot said, "leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties."

Though this is obviously not the first time Trump has been accused of being a Putin puppet, and most certainly won't be the last, it's hilariously ironic that the chatbot funded by his alleged "co-president" is talking such deep smack.

Bet that feature will very soon disappear from 'X', just like all criticism of Musk or things he supports, disappear from that supposed bastion of unfettered free speech.

Mark Frumkinwrote:

What is TDS & I did not say that! 

tripe derangement syndrome

I had a fantastic three days climbing with my 29 year old daughter at Pinnacles (at her invitation!!).

I should note however, that climbing The Unmentionable with my adult daughter and her adult female friend was… interesting. Neither held back much on the innuendo ;)

Nick Goldsmithwrote:

responding to a prompt from Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini, Musk's "maximally truth-seeking" AI, which is built into X, said after an analysis that the probability of the president being in the pocket of Vladimir Putin is between 75 and 85 percent.

After Montini asked Grok to rate on a scale from 1 to 100 that Trump is a "Putin compromised asset" based on public information and his "failure to ever say anything negative" about the Russian president, the chatbot went to work analyzing a "complex web of financial ties, personal interactions, political behavior, and circumstantial evidence."

Weighing the real estate magnate's dealings with both pre- and post-Soviet officials, the KGB, and the Russian mobs, Grok said that although there is no "smoking gun [that] proves direct control," there's a good chance that Trump is a "useful idiot" for Putin — especially given that "Trump’s ego and debts make him unwittingly pliable."

"Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85 percent likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset," the chatbot said, "leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties."

Though this is obviously not the first time Trump has been accused of being a Putin puppet, and most certainly won't be the last, it's hilariously ironic that the chatbot funded by his alleged "co-president" is talking such deep smack.

Hahaha!

Who named it “Grok”? Every time someone belches, the AI will reinforcement learn whatever comes after   

Li Huwrote:

Hahaha!

Who named it “Grok”? Every time someone belches, the AI will reinforcement learn whatever comes after   

Grok was an invention of the science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. His novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) used the invented verb "to grok" to signify a level of empathy approaching merging with the grokee. It found its way into '60's colloquial speech, more or less as a synonym for understanding or empathising. I'm guessing you'd have to be at least into your seventh decade to recognize the term at this point.

Got out for a little bit of sports today, rather than indoor bouldering which is what I’ve mainly been doing. Just easy stuff but I hate leading and was just going to top rope so it’s nice to have actually ‘manned up’.
37 degrees today so got out early.

rgoldwrote:

Grok was an invention of the science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. His novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) used the invented verb "to grok" to signify a level of empathy approaching merging with the grokee. It found its way into '60's colloquial speech, more or less as a synonym for understanding or empathising. I'm guessing you'd have to be at least into your seventh decade to recognize the term at this point.

Oops, thanks for the explanation. Good name then, my bad.

I still like seeing all this reinforcement learning taking shape as Nick had pointed out   

Another depressingly dark, cold, cloudy, windy day yesterday. Oh, wait. That was Barrow. This is Fairbanks: another inspiring, bright, cold, sunny, windless day. A different kind of climbing, but we’re all trying to haul our bodies to the top of our objective. I come here to stock up on motivation, so thanks for sharing your adventures around the world.

Murphy Dome

I’m indulging here in a sweet moment. I was climbing Torturer’s Apprentice (10c) and not sure whether the crux was still ahead—where I had bailed last time.  When Bob said it was behind me I got so excited I almost fell.  “Don’t fall now!”    I’ve only used a GoPro a few times but those few videos are great memories.  

Colden.  We have snow here too.  For a minute.  

rgoldwrote:

I'm guessing you'd have to be at least into your seventh decade to recognize the term at this point.

Ouch. This didn't seem to fit me at first glance, but after a bit of thought, yep...that's about right. Ouch.

I'm reading Heinlein's 'Time Enough for Love' right now- I've been aware of it for many decades, and some recent events inspired diving in to it right now. It's not been an easy read so far, but I'm only about a third of the way into it. Many of those here in this thread might appreciate the character of Lazarus Long, the Howard family, and the concept of 'rejuvenation' and living for hundreds of years.