If agents can already read and rewrite code, literate programming might actually be unnecessary. Instead of maintaining prose alongside code, you could let agents generate explanations on demand. The real requirement becomes writing code in a form that is easily interpretable and transformable by the next agent in the chain. In that model, code itself becomes the stable interface, while prose is just an ephemeral view generated whenever a human (or another agent) needs it.
Yes, the idea was to transition to a variant of MLD that lends itself to the offline use case and would use an updated modeling to be more space efficient while preserving performance. There exists an incomplete (and private) PoC written in Rust.
Agree, mercator projection isn’t great. But it’s pretty simple.
All of the mapping apps are rooted in paper maps. That’s what most people find accessible in a natural way.
So, in any 2D world view some projection must be chosen, and you can fundamentally chose between true angles or true size. Because of that choice any projection is a distortion. Choosing true angles has advantages when it comes to turning projected data into something like turn instructions in your nav app. And then again, mercator projection is easy to use. So, bottom line it’s a mix of people are used to it and simplicity of using it.
I was referring to variants of Customizable Route Planning. Easiest to implement is likely the partitioner of Sommer et al, and a unidirectional multi-level dijkstra.
OSRM founder, here. Yes, you are right, many of the speedup techniques are related. My personal opinion is, tho, that looking at the identification of important nodes is best captured by the ideas of applying partitioning to multi-level dijkstra and by what’s called hub-labels. The latter has a close relationship to Contraction Hierarchies.
Efficiency, not effectiveness. They are all effective in the sense that they produce sorted results. Even the non-modern sort algorithms are effective in the sense that the results are correct. This should be about the efficiency with which they do it, right?