Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say::Researchers asking a chatbot to optimize its own prompts found it was best at solving grade-school math when acting like it was on Star Trek.
Thank you Scotty!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
is this … transparent Aluminium?
They did it. The crazy son’s of bitches did it! Quite awhile ago, it’s commercially available.
There is also This transparent aluminum (linked in that same article) and it’s been used in phone/watch screens also.
Ah yes. Star Trek: The One With The Whales.
Can you explain this reference for me? I do not understand.
It’s a reference to this scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
Explanation without video
Scotty, having traveled back in time to the year 1986 as part of a mission to rescue some whales, attempts to use a computer by speaking to it and then mistakenly tries to use the mouse as a microphone when the machine does not respond. He is prompted to use the keyboard instead of verbal commands and gives information on how to manufacture transparent aluminum. This material was not invented until about 150 years later according to the pre-trip history of the Star Trek future but Scotty has given it a head start.
Helping people with their work through teams has taught me that voice control is a disaster to get anything done for anything other than just dictating text.
Oh, thank you for the lengthy explainer.
All I have in return is this fairly interesting video detailing one of the ways we’ve already found transparent metals. Perhaps over the next 150 years we’ll be able to stabilise the material structure.
Thanks again for explaining.
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this fairly interesting video
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The suuuper loose gist is the OG crew went back in time to the period the movie was made in, they need a giant whale tank for their mission, they need to enlist a company in that time to make it without money, so they go to some kind of engineering firm without money, but Scotty offers the engineer they’re talking to something else that will serve both their purposes: transparent aluminum. He uses the engineer’s computer (to comic effect) to render the molecule for the engineer who loses his mind over the formula for the crazy substance from the future and agrees to make their whale tank in exchange. It’s an iconic Trek scene despite not being a great Trek movie imho.
Edit: got some points wrong, it’s a plexiglass manufacturer etc, but here’s the scene. https://youtu.be/90eg_erObDo?si=YTYZffsLsEEi1_o_
Go watch Star Trek IV first
I’ve seen it, but it was a while ago.
Undiscovered Countries was my favourite TOS movie, because it covered the historically important Khitomer Accords.
Then go watch it second
I will, but only for Spock’s beanie.