EDIT: Is the Federation even adhering to the warp five speed limit anymore? I know it doesn’t get addressed after “Force of Nature”, but is there anything suggesting that the speed limit has been dropped completely by the 25th century?
Nothing explicit, though there's behind-the-scenes materials. The nacelles on the Intrepid-class were designed to mitigate that for example, but that never made it on-screen.
On-screen, we just know that warp engines didn't significantly change, and that the Enterprise was able to exceed those speeds after a bit, so it was presumably fixed behind the scenes.
Plus the fault with the multitronic computer wasn't really the multitronic mechanism that operated it. It was that Daystrom stuffed his neural engrams into it to try and make it sapient, which caused everything to go wrong, probably because it was loaded with everything in his head, including his desperation to make the multitronic computer work, and paranoia about his peers. A multitronic unit loaded with LCARS might not be that revolutionary, but would not have gone homicidal.
Though we never saw it get advanced into a whole computer system on its own, they did seem to get used for some things that needed mind-like complexity. Holograms use multitronics as part of the matrix, for example. So Daystrom might have been onto something, but was too obsessed in creating something that could supersede duotronics to properly explore the thing.
Not really. Why censor more than you have to? That takes time and effort, and it's almost certainly easier to do it using something else. The law isn't that particular, as long as you follow it.
You also don't risk causing the model to go wrong, like trying to censor bits of the model has a habit of doing.
Because it's not a small thing to change. You're basically overhauling everything if you wish to transition from a monarchy to a republic, because it's rooted in everything.
The names of the governmental positions, and possibly their responsibilities would need to change, as would official documentation, the money, the flag, the national anthem...
You could hardly call yourself a republic if your passports are still carry the authority of the monarch, and your national anthem prominently features the King.
It only gets more complicated if you're a former colonial power, since they may also be affected, and have to change everything as well. If the UK decides to ditch the Monarchy and become a Republic, Australia and Canada would need to follow suit, since it would be silly for them to have references to a monarch that no longer exists, or a GG who's meant to be representative for a position that no longer exists.
Either that, or there will be a political/legal headache deciding whether they become the new inheritors of the monarchy, since the parent is gone, or would they be also need to make the same changes (see above).
Only for some things, though. If you host your own e-mail these days, chances are, you're going to have a very difficult time sending them anywhere without risking them being deleted, or automatically thrown into spam folders.
Especially since Epic doesn't really have much to offer over Steam, other than its games and exclusives.
It wasn't all that long that where Epic Games had the infamous issue with the store. Since their store didn't have a shopping cart, if you wanted to buy multiple games at once, you had to buy them all in separate transactions, but the store flagged that as suspicious purchases/fraud, so more often than not, if you found a bunch of games you liked, and bought them all, your account would get locked.
Yes, but in this case, you can see what the model is doing, and it is running on your actual computer. Whereas a lot of LLM providers tend to run their models on their own server farms today, partly because it's prohibitively expensive to run a big model on your machine (Deepseek's famous R1 model needs at least a hundred GBs of VRAM, or about 20 GPUs) and partly so that they have more control over the thing.
AI isn't a black box in the sense that it is a mystery machine that could do anything. It's a black box in the sense that we don't know exactly how it's working, with which particular probability vector/tensor is responsible for what, though we have a fairly good general idea of what goes on.
It's like a brain in that sense. We don't know which exact nerve-circuits do what, but we have a fairly good general idea of how brains work. We don't think that if we talk to someone, they're transmitting everything you say to the hivemind, because brains can't do that.
Although poison pills are only so effective since it's a cat and mouse game, and they only really work for a specific version of a model, with other models working around it.
I was envisioning "improvised heart surgery" as in a stabbing with a knife, as opposed to any surgical function.
But generally, if a someone is having a medical emergency and is brought into the ER, or is having a medical emergency in the ER, they will be triaged, and put ahead of a lot of people whose care isn't as urgent, for good reason.
This is why there are so many stories about planes being grounded because someone tossed a coin in, according to superstition, or a nut or something fell into the compressor.
The whole turbine has to be taken apart to get the coin or it might dent something, and the whole engine then does something most exciting when the pilot tries to run it up to service speeds, as a result of the imbalance.
Basically. If someone's been on the receiving end of improvised heart surgery, they'll be rushed ahead in priorities. So if you're not having anything serious, the wait may be irritating and long, but if it's urgent, it will be shorter due to the whole actively dying bit.
Only slightly though. It hardly seems practical to try and infer gender from names, in a way where it can't be obtained through historical records, or the user.
Seriously, how many of the mutants powers ever get explored for non-combat reasons? If this was just about adults, it’d be one thing, but this guy is in charge of children who are being kept away from their parents.
We do see glimpses here and there, but most of it takes background to the fighting, or is shortly ended because the school blew up, the rest of humanity ordered a genocide on all Mutants, and got caught in the crossfire, etc.
I feel like that X-Men could benefit from taking a leaf off of Transformers, and having a series set up after peace was made, when everyone's trying to readjust to peacetime, and deal with all of that.
But nope, in Storm’s eyes, Rogue is perfect just the way she is. As a living weapon.
In fairness, Storm is shown to be wrong in saying that there's nothing wrong with Rogue in the rest of the movie, and that she doesn't need to be cured.
Nothing explicit, though there's behind-the-scenes materials. The nacelles on the Intrepid-class were designed to mitigate that for example, but that never made it on-screen.
On-screen, we just know that warp engines didn't significantly change, and that the Enterprise was able to exceed those speeds after a bit, so it was presumably fixed behind the scenes.