2024/04/04

Software Engineer Provides Short History of GPS Route Planning

● 04/04/2024
“Algorithms and datasets aren’t perfect; you should always rely on your common sense and Mk-1 eyeballs first and foremost.”
– Software engineer Maya Posch, on how general spatial awareness often trumps GPS for navigation. Explaining the Travelling Salesman Problem (1930) and Dijkstra’s algorithm (1956), Posch accessibly ‘maps out’ the math behind route planning.
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