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theturtletalkstoday at 7:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is what he built:

https://isochronic-passage-chart.netlify.app/

Doesn’t work too well on mobile but looks interesting


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skipantstoday at 7:39 PM

It looks interesting but, like a lot of AI, looks correct but is not. Most of northwestern Canada says you can get there by road. If you look at Google Maps, there's no roads there for quite awhile. I see one highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk but that's about it.

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jampatoday at 7:55 PM

It is hallucinating many flights in my region, some that never existed (so it is not an outdated data problem).

I also see some logic flaws. It overlooks the option of going to a major hub to access faster aircraft, rather than hopping on local hubs.

Also, immigration and customs are cleared at the first airport you arrive at in the country, not at the last one.

In some countries, you need to clear immigration even while going to a third country, so 1 hour is not enough to do it.