Illumination

20 hours ago | medium.com | Don Martin

I have just discovered a television program that is not new to others, but is new to me. It has hilarious, incredible and rapid-fire dialogue that almost makes me cry. Where has it been all my life? I may have just stumbled into one of the greatest comfort shows ever made, part razor wit, part heart throb, and part odd and quirky small-town magic. Rapid-fire, literary, ridiculous, layered dialogue. Coffee obsessions, book nerd joy, awkward relationships.

1 day ago | medium.com | Phil Ryan

Have you ever felt like your monitor was holding back your gaming experience? I did. For the longest time, I stuck with a basic 60Hz display, thinking frame rate and resolution weren’t that important. But one weekend, during an intense session of “Call of Duty: Warzone,” I lost a 1v1 duel because I didn’t see the enemy soon enough. My friend, who was spectating, just said, “Man, your monitor sucks.”That hit me. I started diving deep into gaming monitors and came across the LG UltraGear series.

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The metaphysics of love“Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein“His ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He doubted he would be better understood in the future. He once said he felt as though he was writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men.”— George Henrik von WrightI'm a little late, Ludwig, and I apologize.

1 day ago | medium.com | Ethan Siegel

Is the Universe’s expansion rate 67 km/s/Mpc, 73 km/s/Mpc, or somewhere in between? The Hubble tension is real, and not so easy to resolve. There’s a mystery over how quickly the Universe is expanding, and it doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. Back in the early 2000s, after decades of astronomers arguing over whether the expansion rate of the Universe was closer to 50 km/s/Mpc or 100 km/s/Mpc, the Hubble Key Project was completed.

1 day ago | medium.com | Enrique Dans

The 2019 alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI promised to accelerate the race for AI, but seems to be faltering over an almost philosophical question: what does artificial general intelligence (AGI) mean, and who decides when we have achieved it? The contract both companies signed in 2022 allows OpenAI to cut off Microsoft from its most advanced models as soon as its board of directors declares that this milestone has been reached.