Why "humanity's last exam" will ultimately fail humanity A crowdsourced "final exam" for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here's how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 40 days 40d Share
JWST compels us to ask: what's wrong with Vega? The 5th brightest star in our night sky is young, blue, and apparently devoid of massive planets. New JWST observations deepen the mystery. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 41 days 41d Share
The physics behind curly hair Whether your hair is straight, wavy, curly, or kinky isn't just genetic in nature. It depends on the physics of your hair's very atoms. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 42 days 42d Share
Ask Ethan: Why isn't Richard Feynman your personal hero? One of the 20th century's most famous, influential, and successful physicists is lauded the world over. But Feynman is no hero to me. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 45 days 45d Share
Meet the first star system to "solve" the 3-body problem Due to chaos, it was long thought that planets couldn't stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first ... $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 46 days 46d Share
Mars could have lived, even without a magnetic field Mars and Earth were sister planets in many ways, with early similar conditions. Why did Mars die? The leading explanation isn't universal. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 47 days 47d Share
The biggest holes in NASA's suite of observatories NASA's space telescopes and observatories bring humanity unrivaled science images and scientific discoveries. Here's what should be next. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 48 days 48d Share
The mystery of the Milky Way's most bizarre supernova In the year 1181, a "guest star" was recorded in the constellation of Cassiopeia. Its modern supernova remnant is weirder than we imagined. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 49 days 49d Share
Ask Ethan: What's the deal with cosmic inflation and the Big Bang? Almost everyone asserts that the Big Bang was the beginning of everything, followed by inflation. Has everyone gotten the order wrong? $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 52 days 52d Share
Einstein: the lone genius is pure mythology Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn't true. $$ medium.com medium.com / feeds medium-com-starts-with-a-bang / / #science / / 53 days 53d Share