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The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]

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Post by QuiEgo »

kaonwarb wrote: post #118
kazinator wrote: post #85

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Some low cost airlines no longer have anything. A small fold-out tray to hold your tablet. There is Wi-Fi to access an intranet with flight information and maybe some entertainment. If you have that, you just load it up with games from your play store.

This is increasingly common in domestic US full-price airlines. It makes sense, in a way - most folks have their own devices, and the airlines save money and weight and don't have to worry about future tech obsolescence - but still makes me a bit sad.

I've long enjoyed both Alaska's and Southwest's version of this.

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Post by rmunn »

shermantanktop wrote: post #107
runarberg wrote: post #95

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I think the Amtrak way is to bring a physical chess board and challenge human strangers over a nice cup of coffee in the observation car.

The Puget Sound ferries often have a partially-done jigsaw puzzle on one of the tables. You can't finish it in 30m, so people come and do their part and move on. Eventually someone will put in the last piece, I guess, I've never seen it happen.

My last visit to Seattle was in 1998 so I can't confirm this firsthand, but I would bet that when someone finishes the jigsaw, ferry staff bring out a new one.

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Post by redox99 »

Uehreka wrote: post #73
markgall wrote: post #8

Is this really true? I played a few games with it in August. It's not very good. It's one of those old programs where 95% of the moves are pretty strong. But if you just do nothing and sit back it will occasionally make a random blunder and then you grind it out. I figured it's how they were able to weaken a chess engine back in the day; can't adjust the overall strength, so add random blunders. I'm only about 2000 o…

> I figured it's how they were able to weaken a chess engine back in the day; can't adjust the overall strength, so add random blunders. In tom7’s Elo World, he does this (“dilutes” strong Chess AIs with a certain percentage of random moves) to smooth the gradient since otherwise it would be impossible to evaluate his terrible chess bots against something like Stockfish since they’d just lose every time. https://yout…

Such a great video.

Re: The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]

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Post by kazinator »

kaonwarb wrote: post #118
kazinator wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some low cost airlines no longer have anything. A small fold-out tray to hold your tablet. There is Wi-Fi to access an intranet with flight information and maybe some entertainment. If you have that, you just load it up with games from your play store.

This is increasingly common in domestic US full-price airlines. It makes sense, in a way - most folks have their own devices, and the airlines save money and weight and don't have to worry about future tech obsolescence - but still makes me a bit sad.

Right? That's why I don't want a car with any system for entertainment, beyond generics like speakers. The car is ideally going to last 25+ years, by which time that shit will be obsolete. The software won't be upgradable, etc.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

reincarnate0x14 wrote: post #127
kazinator wrote: post #85

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Some low cost airlines no longer have anything. A small fold-out tray to hold your tablet. There is Wi-Fi to access an intranet with flight information and maybe some entertainment. If you have that, you just load it up with games from your play store.

I prefer the Airbus 31x and 32x models without the entertainment systems so much more. On United the Boeing had fucking ads playing NON STOP THE ENTIRE FLIGHT and because I boarded early I'd try to turn off as many around me as possible because somehow the flying public does not mind bright flashing annoying lights in their faces for HOURS.

> because somehow the flying public does not mind bright flashing annoying lights in their faces for HOURS

We do. United has just positioned their economy products a hair below Delta by, in part, pulling off crap like this.

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Post by [deleted] »

markgall wrote: post #8

Is this really true? I played a few games with it in August. It's not very good. It's one of those old programs where 95% of the moves are pretty strong. But if you just do nothing and sit back it will occasionally make a random blunder and then you grind it out. I figured it's how they were able to weaken a chess engine back in the day; can't adjust the overall strength, so add random blunders. I'm only about 2000 o…

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Post by [deleted] »

jibal wrote: post #122
lurk2 wrote: post #74

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> I'm only about 2000 on lichess That puts you in the top 7% of players on the site. I have a hard time believing you could get to that rating without knowing that.

They aren't talking about the site, they're talking about their strength (as measured by that site) so it can be compared to the numbers in the article.

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Post by refulgentis »

jmb99 wrote: post #123
fragmede wrote: post #64

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Casually just in the top 2-3 percent of chess players globally world wide humble brag. I'm not that good at it, just a little bit!

I mean, if you’re in the top 3 percent of anything, yes that’s pretty good, but not unbelievably so, especially in the field of chess. If for instance you randomly put together a classroom full of chess players, there’s decent odds one of them is better than top 3%. Two classrooms and it’s almost a certainty. Put another way, looking at chess.com users, there are ~6 million people who would count as the top 3 percent…

It made me smile to hear “I’m only 97th percentile” isn’t a humblebrag. You may be employing an old saw of mine, you can make people* react however you want by leaning on either percentages or whole numbers when you shouldn’t.

* who don’t have strong numeracy and time to think

Re: The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]

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Post by jquery »

reincarnate0x14 wrote: post #127
kazinator wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some low cost airlines no longer have anything. A small fold-out tray to hold your tablet. There is Wi-Fi to access an intranet with flight information and maybe some entertainment. If you have that, you just load it up with games from your play store.

I prefer the Airbus 31x and 32x models without the entertainment systems so much more. On United the Boeing had fucking ads playing NON STOP THE ENTIRE FLIGHT and because I boarded early I'd try to turn off as many around me as possible because somehow the flying public does not mind bright flashing annoying lights in their faces for HOURS.

This is a United thing, not a Boeing/Airbus thing.
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