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

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

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Post by vasco »

kimixa wrote: post #133
mrandish wrote: post #35

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> then again by the airplane seat itself when the person in front of me reclines their seat. This reminds me of the time I had my laptop open on the tilt-down tray and the very large man in the seat in front just repositioned his girth (not even reclining the seat) but it flexed the seat back enough that my laptop screen was momentarily caught between the tray below and recessed lip above and was almost crushed.

That happened to me when I had an ipad in a standing case and the seat in front cranked back - trapping then pinging the tablet across me and by neighbour's lap. Though the ipad itself wasn't damaged, a couple of glasses didn't make it, and required the steward to try to brush up whatever fragments of glass they could. I feel that airlines are a microcosm of "Do you care about who you actions might affect?" - similar…

Airlines shouldn't have reclining seats, it's bad design. Blaming people for the bad design is stupid. I never recline and still blame it on the design. Stupid people exist, you should design for that.

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Post by exidy »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #81
gowld wrote: post #14

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

Naming it the "Turbo" button rather than making "turbo mode" the default and then pressing a button for "slow" mode, IMO, was marketing genius, even though the results are the same. Blizzard did a similar thing in World of Warcraft during the beta. After playing for a while, your character would get "exhausted" and start earning half experience for killing mobs. The only way to stop being exhausted would be to log of…

The original intention behind the turbo button was to give a way to set the clock speed something closer to a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 for the benefit of games that relied on CPU cycle timing. Therefore turbo was the default and slow mode the exception.

For some reason this feature persisted in PC compatibles long past having any useful purpose, e.g. toggling a 386 between 33 MHz and 25 MHz. Perhaps manufacturers feared any PC without such a button would be perceived as slower, even though as you say, it's really a slow-down button not a turbo button.

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

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Post by yard2010 »

dagi3d wrote: post #165
grayfaced wrote: post #156

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And yet I'd prefer both myself and the person in front of me lean back. The upright posture is painful for me. Is your preference more valid then mine? The fact that the chairs are configured that way suggests the cultural norm.

so I guess you pay to choose seats in the last row of the plane...

I did this once and one time was forced into doing it and it was a horrific nightmare. The lack of contra for my legs meant I was constantly slipping forward, it was tiring. The fact that this is an emergency seat made it worse - there was no handle for the hand because of some bullshit. The flight attendant policed every action I did from putting my jacket on to eating with the attachable tray. I will never do it again even if it means I fly for free.

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Post by 333c »

gridspy wrote: post #132
Disparallel wrote: post #110

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Getting more thinking time tends to give surprisingly small improvements to playing strength. For a classical alpha-beta search based engine, for a given ply (turn) you might have ~20 moves to consider each depth of the search tree. If you're trying to brute force search deeper, a 10x increase in compute time or power doesn't even let you search an extra ply. Elo gains for engines tend to come from better evaluation,…

There is a strategy called alpha beta pruning meaning you can discard a lot of move options quickly based on the results of similar branches. That and caching similar board states means 20x options does not mean 20x CPU time.

The comment you're replying to already mentions this.

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Post by watwut »

rkomorn wrote: post #167
crystal_revenge wrote: post #130

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I pointed out exactly the opposite: surely moral action is only possible when one has agency. If an airline needs to force you to be a decent person, then you have no right to claim decency in the first place. People who lean their seats back are assholes. Claiming “but this is permitted!” proves my point. I can’t imagine what a nightmare world it would be if decency were only possible through the exercise of externa…

You have the agency to let the person in front of you have a more enjoyable flight without judging them for it. That is also a decent and unselfish thing to do. I don't lean back on flights, but I don't consider the person in front of me an asshole for doing it. Are you talking about agency and not being an asshole, or are you just being selfish about your space?

> You have the agency to let the person in front of you have a more enjoyable flight without judging them for it.

No, being doormat that never judges assholes is not necessary in order to be a decent person.

In fact, there is special category of decent person heroes who do the uncomfortable thing, judge assholes and even protect and help others when assholery becomes too much. Both when talking about recliners and like, terrorizing thugs in streets.

> Are you talking about agency and not being an asshole, or are you just being selfish about your space?

It is not being selfish to not want to give your space to an asshole who decided to take it. That person is still an asshole. And again, both when we are talking about recliner and when certain government sends violent thugs.

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Post by abenga »

grayfaced wrote: post #169
abenga wrote: post #164

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Leaning back doesn't help knee room, the person in front leaning back actually reduces it by the seat back leaning against a tall person's knees.

Even though I'm tall it's about the back, not the knees.

For me, it's the knees. When everyone is leaned back you can't even comfortably use a tablet to read, while I can comfortably sit upright for a few hours (of course taking a walk from time to time). The person in front reclining their seat forces me to either manspread into the seat on the left or right (if I'm not on the aisle) or stick my feet in the aisle and getting in the cabin crew's way as they move back and forth.

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Post by Grisu_FTP »

tantalor wrote: post #42
tromp wrote: post #33

Sometimes the airlines chess app gives you the option to play another passenger, but even after waiting for half an hour I've never been hooked up with another player. Has anyone else been able to?

The best part about this is sneaking a look at your opponents screen if you are lucky enough to sit behind them.

Being one Seat behind instead of one step ahead

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Post by Dylan16807 »

nebula8804 wrote: post #155
VTimofeenko wrote: post #153

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And if you are the airline the answer is a resounding "no"

The airline is not a human being. It is an imaginary construct.

And yet it still gets to participate and answer the question in the worst way.

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Post by _zoltan_ »

kazinator wrote: post #85
woopwoop wrote: post #4

Last time I flew Delta they no longer had this bot, which made me sad. One of my favorite parts of flying was getting absolutely crushed into a tiny cube by the airplane seat's easy chess bot, and then again by the airplane seat itself when the person in front of me reclines their seat.

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.

Last I flew AA inside the US, I could watch the entertainment content on my own device via the on board wifi. This was great.

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Post by reactordev »

mabster wrote: post #152
reincarnate0x14 wrote: post #125

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(I get the joke) Not even gorillas even, the seats on most US carriers are too small and narrow for a lot of adult men even if they're in good shape. I had to sit shoulder to shoulder with one poor guy an entire flight to New Zealand because both of our shoulder widths are wider than the seats and I wanted to make sure my girlfriend had room enough to sleep. We were both good sports about it and were joking about nee…

I flew Scoot airlines recently and my 13” MacBook Air was too big to have on my lap even though the seat in front was not reclined. There's also something about those seats where you get back pain when you try to sleep with your own seat reclined.

Comfort is an up charge.
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