> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://nickrroberts.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # December links: ChatGPT, Vatican observatories, Taiwan - URL: https://nickrroberts.com/december-links/ - Published: 2023-01-06T18:31:24.000Z - Updated: 2023-02-21T13:35:56.000Z - Description: Interesting stuff from December, 2022 - Author: Nick Roberts - Tags: Link Roundup, #nick-2, #Import 2024-11-11 16:59 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/99/a099d561-fde0-440d-8161-92921d516932/content/images/2023/01/DALL-E-2023-01-06-11.24.38---robot-in-front-of-a-landscape-in-the-style-of-cgsociety-1.png) "Robot in front of a landscape in the style of cgsociety" DALL-E 2 Hello from Salt Lake City! We're just about to embark on our move up to our new house in the Tetons and Fiona and I are extremely excited about it. Having our own basecamp and some space will be so nice after a year on the road. Plus, I'm really hoping I run into [Jimmy Chin](https://www.instagram.com/jimmychin?ref=nickrroberts.com) at a local bar, since he's a fellow resident. Our plan for 2023 is to hunker down for around five months in our Eastern Idaho abode, where we'll do as much backcountry/cross-country/alpine skiing as we can, and then head to the Pacific Northwest for the summer. We're going to be in Bend, OR, followed by the Seattle area. Our goals are to a) to see some cool new places and b) place ourselves near the Cascades, where I'll be participating in a series of expeditions to glaciated peaks to prep for a 2024 Denali attempt. If you're going to be around any of those places in the summer and want to meet up, please reach out! ## Links from the last month ### I'll start with my stuff Things I wrote in the last month if you haven't seen them: - [My 2022 metrics](https://nickrroberts.com/a-look-back-at-2022/) - [A review of our nomad year on the road](https://nickrroberts.com/a-review-of-our-year-on-the-road/) Short videos I made (I've been cooking a lot!): - [Smoking things: Pulled pork](https://youtube.com/shorts/LlW3DIZD%5FY0?feature=share&ref=nickrroberts.com) - [A few wintry scenes from Utah](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b0a-vXFcLlQ?ref=nickrroberts.com) - [Smoking things: Frozen beef tenderloin](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6GpejS-s-8M?ref=nickrroberts.com) - [Learning to ice climb](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kE%5FYckh2UQg?ref=nickrroberts.com) - [Christmas morning cookout](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/26p92YrBa5o?ref=nickrroberts.com) - [Grilling things: Carne asada](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wstsGR8hJGQ?ref=nickrroberts.com) - [Grilling things: Chicken tacos](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aL5IbZQUHqM?ref=nickrroberts.com) - [Ribeye reverse sear (Babish style)](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8CJ6G4DvjZo?ref=nickrroberts.com) ### Artificial intelligence-related - I haven’t personally messed with ChatGPT yet, but [this](https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1599082185402642432?s=46&t=uCb4EBQEHLgtcldQBzj3HQ&ref=nickrroberts.com) was incredible. It can write plausible code! Also, someone in my orbit submitted a music theory essay written by ChatGPT to their college professor and scored a 95%. Look out for a rash of startups or incumbent plagiarism-tracking software companies to come out with ChatGPT identifier features for academia. - Humanity wins every time ([link](https://open.substack.com/pub/embedded/p/i-dont-care-what-the-ai-wrote)). - A [potential future](https://www.secondbest.ca/p/before-the-flood?ref=nickrroberts.com) where our 70-year-old government firmware meets sophisticated machine models. ### Security/Ukraine - A Chinese seizure of Taiwan would be [a pyrrhic victory](https://www.csis.org/analysis/reunification-taiwan-through-force-would-be-pyrrhic-victory-china?ref=nickrroberts.com) if they could even pull it off. - [Fascinating report](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/world/europe/russia-putin-war-failures-ukraine.html?ref=nickrroberts.com) from the New York Times on the first ten months of the Ukraine conflict. Truly incredible journalism! - Perun [on the race](https://youtu.be/RPrWm6fWuaM?ref=nickrroberts.com) for sixth-generation aircraft. - The [F-35B crash](https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/zmtn80/f35b%5Fcrash%5Fand%5F00%5Fejection%5Fat%5Ffort%5Fworth%5Ftoday?ref=nickrroberts.com) at Fort Worth (*via my friend Sam S.*). - The War on the Rocks [must-reads](https://warontherocks.com/2022/12/most-read-war-on-the-rocks-articles-of-2022/?%5F%5Fs=d5o09djx55ojj3ueh6po&ref=nickrroberts.com) of 2022. ### General - Fiona and I were down in southern Arizona visiting her family for Christmas. While we were driving around just north of the border with Mexico, Fiona's father pointed out an observatory in the mountains and said it was owned by the Vatican. Sure enough, the Roman Catholic church [runs](https://www.npr.org/2021/06/06/1003231191/the-vaticans-space-observatory-wants-to-see-stars-and-faith-align?ref=nickrroberts.com) deep space observatories! - Speaking of Arizona, shortly before Christmas we visited [Winterhaven](https://www.livingplaces.com/AZ/Pima%5FCounty/Tucson%5FCity/Winterhaven%5FHistoric%5FDistrict.html?ref=nickrroberts.com) in Tucson. To live here, you must decorate your house to the nines. It was cool, but absolute chaos. It seemed as though the entire town was out touring the neighborhood that night. - [NUTS](https://warontherocks.com/2022/12/nuts-mcauliffes-1944-christmas-letter-3/?ref=nickrroberts.com)— the WWII American General McAuliffe’s reply to a German demand for surrender. - The [deeper story](https://www.army.mil/article/92856/the%5Fstory%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fnuts%5Freply?ref=nickrroberts.com) on "NUTS." - A [really good channel](https://youtu.be/GG0LY8OLBG8?ref=nickrroberts.com) that reminds me of when the History Channel was at its best. - The [incredible story](https://www.damninteresting.com/lofty-ambitions/?ref=nickrroberts.com) of Maurice Wilson and Everest - San Francisco killer police robot [controversy](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/us/san-francisco-rejects-police-controlled-robots/index.html?ref=nickrroberts.com). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a0/99/a099d561-fde0-440d-8161-92921d516932/content/images/2023/01/image.png) "You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9." - [Count Things](https://countthings.com/en/accuracy?ref=nickrroberts.com). A $120-per-month service that counts tubes and other stuff, presumably with machine vision models. - A beautiful [little meditation](https://vimeo.com/765112056?ref=nickrroberts.com) on dreams and running. - Subway sandwich air strike [takes out](https://twitter.com/frrancis/status/1586503884402327552?s=46&t=n4HcOg0yQmBjeGALsuvpsw&ref=nickrroberts.com) grandpa. - This isn't new and I no longer play the game on which the story is based (League of Legends), but I watched the Netflix show [Arcane](https://www.netflix.com/title/81435684?ref=nickrroberts.com) in the last month and thought it was amazing. The character development is incredibly well-done. That's it for now! Have a great January.