In the same movie, the Milton Bradley Phantom chess computer ( http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/mil ... antom.html ):
Chess computers in popular culture
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This is not very on topic, but it is interesting to see how chess artificial players were seen by smart people in XiX century and the way they analyzed the possibility of it. Read "Edgar Allan Poe essay about the chess player by Maelzel, a known show of middle XIX century.
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You can read it online here.fern wrote:This is not very on topic, but it is interesting to see how chess artificial players were seen by smart people in XiX century and the way they analyzed the possibility of it. Read "Edgar Allan Poe essay about the chess player by Maelzel, a known show of middle XIX century.
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It is, Poe's logic, a flawed one due to the ideas of his time, but logic was and very smart. In fact on the ground of observation and that logic he concluded that the machine was a witty hoax.
It is a reading I have done several times because of the delight of following Poe reasoning. Once I showed to some students as a model of sc scientific reasoning.
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It is a reading I have done several times because of the delight of following Poe reasoning. Once I showed to some students as a model of sc scientific reasoning.
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Actually i have prepared for that possibility years agoAdam Hair wrote:From an episode (37) of a cheesy cable show called 1000 Ways To Die (very loosely based on real stories, if at all), a Soviet chess master plays against a dedicated chess super computer with a robotic arm. The game does not go as easily as the chess master thought it would, which causes him to sweat profusely. As he touches a piece to make a move, his sweat drips on to the board, causing him to be electrocuted.
A cautionary tale for Steve Blincoe
I will see if I can find a clip of it online.
whenever i play one of my dedicated computer's i always use those rubber glove thingies that the folks wear when serving you at a Deli Check out counter
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The MB Robot was released by MB under 3 different names
MB Grandmaster
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 0922174592
MB Phantom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 922174592/
MB Milton
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 0922174592
Each computer insisted on appearing in the movie so they had to constantly switch computers during the entire shooting of the movie
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MB Grandmaster
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 0922174592
MB Phantom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 922174592/
MB Milton
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 0922174592
Each computer insisted on appearing in the movie so they had to constantly switch computers during the entire shooting of the movie
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Interesting! Thanks Steve!Steve B wrote:The MB Robot was released by MB under 3 different names
MB Grandmaster
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 0922174592
MB Phantom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 922174592/
MB Milton
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... 0922174592
Each computer insisted on an appearance in the movie so they kept switching computers during the entire movie
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Perhaps you should add to that precaution a iron chain touching the ground, just in case.
WHAT A HECK HAPPENED WITH YOUR SEARCH OF A FIDELITY SUPER 9 REGARDS?????????????
I have already earmarked some bucks for that....
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WHAT A HECK HAPPENED WITH YOUR SEARCH OF A FIDELITY SUPER 9 REGARDS?????????????
I have already earmarked some bucks for that....
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the Super 9 is very hard to findfern wrote:Perhaps you should add to that precaution a iron chain touching the ground, just in case.
WHAT A HECK HAPPENED WITH YOUR SEARCH OF A FIDELITY SUPER 9 REGARDS?????????????
I have already earmarked some bucks for that....
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IMO, for Adams to work, you have to put your mind into 1970s England because the jokes and social commentary really only resonate in that specific milieu. It's exactly the same situation for "Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy". If you've never been immersed in issues of that time (from either having lived through it or from studying it in depth), it will be difficult to fully grok (or otherwise escape into) the story's atmosphere.Adam Hair wrote: I have not read The Hitchhiker's Guide yet, but I will do so.
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