Fantasy TV Needs More Risks Like Game of Thrones

A key reason for the lasting popularity of Game of Thrones is its boldness in taking chances with its characters and plotlines. Many other shows in the same genre avoid risks, making them less impactful. Game of Thrones demonstrated this willingness to take big chances early on, and it paid off with its most-watched episode ever.








![A neural network variational Monte Carlo technique optimizes a representation of a quantum system’s ground state-defined by a first-principles Hamiltonian-through energy minimization, identifying magnetic order via total and staggered magnetization calculations; this approach, when applied to a moiré semiconductor model of WSe2/WS2 with 2828 electrons, reveals an itinerant ferromagnetic state characterized by spin density and visualized through spin polarization-quantified as [latex]\frac{\langle\hat{n}\_{\uparrow}\rangle-\langle\hat{n}\_{\downarrow}\rangle}{\langle\hat{n}\_{\uparrow}\rangle+\langle\hat{n}\_{\downarrow}\rangle}[/latex]-and total density.](https://arxiv.org/html/2602.09093v1/x1.png)