What’s News For April 5th? 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. Without calculus, can we prove sin x = x – x³/3! “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.

Source: Washington Post April 05, 2022 11:43 UTC