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Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc
Joined December 2012
Pieps MINI IPS First Look Review is up on our website. We’ve been testing pre production models of this new transceiver all last season: https://t.co/Ve9DSN6n8i
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Follow @ItsWalterEgo for more threads on philosophy, tactical thinking, and storytelling. Follow @PinkFreudWrites for deep dives into psychology. Ever seen a crazier game than this? Tell me. Retweet the first post to share this madness. https://t.co/B8O7UkqUmR
In 1994, a football team discovered a loophole so absurd, they broke the game. They won the match by scoring an own goal. ON PURPOSE. What followed changed how we see soccer and game theory forever. -Thread- 👇
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Our article: Avalanche Considerations in Couloirs is circulated in the backdrop journal. Check it out.
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Friend of Backdrop, Mike Austin of Avalanche Geeks, shares with us a fascinating article he wrote about things to bear in mind when preparing to ride steep couloirs.
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🚨 What’s happening in Sicily - Italy 🇮🇹 is absolutely extraordinary Mount Etna is erupting with its summit covered in snow Here are some explorers skiing between snow and fire! Unprecedented
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Interesting on two levels. The pilot's decision to follow his intuition and the tone of the reactions in the comments.
“I’m not really feeling it.” Cautious pilot refuses to fly the plane because of a possible mechanical issue.
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#Avalanche | ⚠️ Risque marqué (3/5) dès demain, samedi 7 décembre en #HauteSavoie, sur les massifs du Chablais, des Aravis & du Montblanc au-delà de 2200m. ❄️ 📢 Soyez prudents & responsables. Sachez renoncer ou changer d'objectif !
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Since the demise of Fatmap we've been looking at alternative 3D mapping tools that have avalanche angle overlays. https://t.co/A0SWhq1UgN
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Black Turkey events & other statistical outliers. More here:
Your chances of being hunted by a turkey are low, but never zero.
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Listening for an overview of Naturalistic Decision Making? https://t.co/hin9udrrkU
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Podcast Episode · The Decision-Making Studio Podcast · 16/11/2024 · 1h 11m
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An example of survivorship bias: you tend to ask ChatGPT questions about things outside your specialty; it infers your personality based on questions you ask not those you don't ask.
Chat GPT comparing me, based on my questions, to Nassim Taleb.
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✨Congratulations to Lars Blatny for publishing his model for #cohesive, #compressible #granular flows in @JFluidMech ! This new elasto-viscoplastic model opens up new ways to simulate materials as sand & snow in both #solid & #fluid states, including complex #fracture processes
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Ooops. Permafrost degradation in steep rock walls at it's best. Luckily this one hit Piste 36 „Mittelberg“ (3250m asl) in the Pitztal glacier ski area during the night - no one got hurt. https://t.co/lmwojiV0h9 Read more on https://t.co/3yBeNsPDX2
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First Skier Triggered Avalanche of Season Reported in Colorado
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Two skiers encountered a slide near Silverton Mountain but skied away safely.
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Long term review of the Pieps IPS Pro is now up on our website. A deep dive on Pieps latest flagship model and their crusade against electronic magnetic interference (EMI). @blackdiamond_snow @pieps_technology
https://t.co/yc4uCi8zvF
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The value of Marginal Gains. Small changes that we can make add up to big differences over time.
One of the major initiatives for Starbucks outgoing CEO was the Siren System, a $450m project to overhaul the bar design to speed up service. If each of the Starbucks 40k locations served 5 more people a day, that was a ~$1B annual sales bump. This video shows the optimized
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Around 3:00 am last night a serac fall in the N face of Mt Blanc du Tacul (~4100 m asl) left one dead and four injured 😢 This face is known for this kind of hazard (see next tweet) Pic below (5:15 am) shows the release area (red dot), the deposit and the rescue lights at work 1/
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Combating human behaviours in complex systems...
Why the landing gear lever is shaped like a wheel and the flap lever is shaped like a flap ? ✈️ During the Second World War, aircraft started to become ever more complex and a number incidents occurred as a result of pilots accidentally raising the flaps when they wanted to
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Avalanche safety sure has come a long way since the days of using balloons in the 60’s 😯 How well do you actually think this would have worked? 🤔 #WarrenMiller
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