Kevin Harrington

Super excited to have you here on Cake, JazliAziz! I look forward to seeing your posts.

Nice gear list! This inspires me to get rid of some of my heavier stuff. Yeah, 50lb pack and worn weight was killer, especially on my 155 lb frame. I'm glad I brought 2 sleeping bags for the 0-degree night and a 3 season tent. In the summer, my …

Day 5 We found a guy listed on the US forest service website that provides hiker transportation. $70 got us a ride from Shepherd pass trailhead to Onion Valley. From there we collected the other car at Whitney …

Day 4 That morning I filled my camelback with water from a flowing river nearby, added my Aquamira treatment drops, then waited the specified 20 minutes before drinking. To my surprise, the 2 liters of water was nearly frozen solid. This cemented …

Day 3 The weather was better the next morning. The storm broke around 9 am. @xelanil's view from his tent: https://photos.smugmug.com/Family-and-Friends/October-SEKI-Adventure/n-CKFm2t/i-2HMqGL2/0/1b667327/O/i-2HMqGL2.jpg Alex's thermometer read …

Day 2 We woke up to a sunny but chilly morning with 20 mph winds. The view of Kearsarge lake from our camping sport was incredible. We got on the trail at 11 am, undesirably late. But we were so cold in the morning, it was hard to get out of our …

Day 1 A thru-hike is logistically complicated. Luckily, we had two cars on our trip, so we placed a car at both the starting and ending trailhead. It took a few hours to place the getaway car at Whitney Portal then drive to Onion Valley for our …

We meticulously packed for this trip. It wasn't our normal Sierra backpacking trip where great summer weather allows for mistakes in packing. Arctic conditions are usually present in mid-October in the high Sierra. The right amount of food, fuel …

We wanted to hike a total of 30 to 40 miles in 5 days and we wanted to see the backcountry of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks (SEKI), specifically the majestic alpine zone around the treeline. Approaching that part of SEKI from the western …

Last week two good friends and I adventured into the backcountry of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. It was 5-day backpacking trip on the eve of a Sierra winter. The plan was to track the last 40 miles of the John Muir trail. The extreme …

@billpusztai Welcome to Cake! Beautiful shot! It seems sometimes only panos can capture the true grandeur of the big mountains. I just got back from backpacking in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, and I felt that a pano was the only way to …

So awesome! I need to train my pup to work for me. ---- Here she is trying on her new shoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HtZWs9Kbyk

I'm going backpacking in a week, and I'd love to share the journey with you all via a Cake conversation with text and photos. Our group will be deep in the high country of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, far from cell service. I'd need a …

I think it looks pixelated because of the high compression stream YouTube is serving us. Wish I had an MP4 version of the video to play in Quicktime to compare. I think technologies like Hypermooth are the future because gimbals are bulky and have …

Great points! This brings up some philosophical questions, like how does consciousness work and how does it affect human creativity? And consciousness is something a machine might never possess. The term singularity in the context of technology …

Software-wise we're getting there. Machines are progressively getting better and better at more complex tasks. Decades ago they were better than any human at arithmetic. Now intelligent machines can drive cars, play jeopardy or chess far far better …

Super intelligence will understand the brain better than any neurologist and psychiatrist, and would presumably diagnose and treat mental illness. If humans desire happiness and machines have our best interests, those machines will keep us from …

The trajectory is evident that we will get to singularity in the coming decades if researchers and companies continue their course. The financial motive to do so is huge. Extinction from a pandemic and nuclear war is a genuine threat. We can't get …

My bet is that productivity will dramatically increase in the coming decades to where humans need to work less and less to survive. In theory, machines doing all our jobs is not a terrible thing, but the wealth generated by those machines needs to …

It's impossible to forecast the future after superintelligence because machines smarter than the collective human intelligence have the potential to shape the world in ways we can't fathom. The Internet changed the world in ways unpredicted, but I …

I have flashbacks to cutting rafters when I framed my roof. Ugh so much work! Had 100 rafters, including many that were one-offs for some gables .It was a whole weekend of cutting. But for the most part, once you cut one it speeds up because you …

The Sony 55mm f/1.8 FE lens is remarkably sharp on my A7RII. Its sharpness warrants shooting at 42.4 megapixels, unlike many other ~50mm primes. And it's pretty small. The 55mm is slightly too long for group shots and landscapes. You get a 1.5x …

I did the same thing on a kitchen cabinet door a while back :( I filled it with automotive Bondo and sanded the hell out of it. You can't even tell it happened after a fresh coat of paint. And surprisingly it still hasn't cracked yet as it has been …

There's a very real concern that superintelligent machines will diverge from human interests and pose a threat to our existence. Many argue that the safest way for the human race to survive past singularity is to merge with AI to preserve human …

And he also corrected Rogan many times for poor comments, like using magnetics to levitate airplanes (which Elon noted is pretty much impossible). Elon keeps getting the same questions over and over again, whether it's from Joe Rogan or TED. I …