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E11 - impressive climbing film

If you ever tried to clinch a deal that just kept evading you, or butted your head against some pesky problem refusing to go away then you will appreciate this film, download the trailer if you download one thing today, nay this week. It is really mindboggling, trust me.



E11 Film

E11 tells the story of Dave's ascent of ‘Rhapsody’, the worlds first climb graded at E11 (French 8c+ / US 5.14d). The film shows the determination, talent and bravery needed to tackle an imposing line. This film enters unchartered territory. Taking you beyond the action it reveals the frustrations and the shear physical and mental effort that goes into climbing at the very highest level. We see MacLeod take a series of terrifying, gut-wrenching 60 ft falls and the strain begins to show as he struggles to cope with the difficulty and seriousness of the endeavour.

I'm proud to say that the music was provided by my good friend MC Hasta of Solidara which goes really well with the theme. Way to go!
 

Human Computation

Very interesting talk by Luis von Ahn, who invented the www.espgame.org and others. The general idea, like with the Amazon Mechanical Turk, is to use human 'cycles' i.e idle brain capacity to solve problems that computers aren't good at. I already read a presentation of his some time ago, and got lots of food for thought and mileage at dinner parties out of it. Highly recommended. PS. very slick of Google to offer a direct posting link at the end of the video.