What’s News For April 5th?
1. How NIF inspired groundbreaking 3D metal-printing technology https://www.llnl.gov/…/how-nif-inspired-groundbreaking…
2. No solid lens can survive the beams of upcoming 100 petawatt or exawatt lasers. The solution seems to be to use a ‘holographic plasma lens’, that works like a diffraction zone plate but can handle over 10^17 W/cm^2. https://www.llnl.gov/…/holographic-plasma-lenses-ultra…
3. NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS — A new kind of computer architecture that’s more elegant than 1s and 0s, being based directly on Mathematics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFDG-y-EHs
4. Without calculus, can we prove sin x = x – x³/3! + x⁵/5! -…? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x09IsbVZeXo
5. New program bolsters innovation in next-generation artificial intelligence hardware https://news.mit.edu/…/new-program-bolsters-innovation…
6. Letter: German nuclear power phaseout is pure madness [Financial Times] https://archive.ph/1MwFO
7. New and relatively rigorous study of social media and well-being. Small negative effects, highly dependent on age, somewhat dependent on gender. Evidence consistent with causality running in both directions. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29296-3
8. “Figuring out the True Name of a thing, a mathematical formulation sufficiently precise that one can apply lots of optimization pressure without the formulation breaking down, is absolutely possible and does happen.” https://www.lesswrong.com/…/why-agent-foundations-an…
9. “This post aims to quickly break down and explain the dominant mental models interpretability researchers currently use when thinking about how transformers work.” https://www.lesswrong.com/…/gears-level-mental-models…
10. “According to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data, women younger than 30, on average, earn at least as much as or more than men in D.C., New York, Los Angeles and 19 other major metro areas…” https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/gender-pay-gap-young…/
