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  • The author says:

    "It used Voronoi Cells and reduced most math to 8- and 16-bit integer calculations with one or two single-precision floating-point calculations."

    I wonder if it can be used to speed up LLM inference.

    by JPLeRouzic
  • Oh how I have fond memories of Dr.Dobb's journal.
    by fegu
  • In Y2K I built a Linux on PC104 solution with GPS, bonded dual-channel mobile 9600 baud data links, and a (slow) image feed. It was kind of special to see the data coming over the mobile network in those days: this was before mobile data using basic PSTN modem tech! Very lossy and slow, as the algorithms did not account for mobile voice compression.
    by contingencies
  • I once worked on a handheld garmin gps that used a 386 ... not sure if it ever became a product, though. It definitely had moving map... 1MB of it.
    by AshamedCaptain
  • "real-time GPS-driven moving map display"

    Not the IMHO more interesting analog tech which lifts signals out of thermal noise.

    by guenthert
  • One of the things I discovered a while back is that even fairly crude trig approximations don't put that much error into your position, over a small enough distance.

    To calculate things like straight-line range from where you are now to where you need to put a unit for an emergency, you're probably not working over an area of more than a couple of hundred kilometres radius and the error will be within a few dozen metres. And once you get within about half a k, you're driving towards the column of smoke anyway ;-)

    by ErroneousBosh
  • I believe the library mentioned in the article should be this one https://geodyssey.github.io/overview/overview.html and here https://www.lukatela.com/geodyssey/
    by svag
  • I built one, tracking fleet vehicles with a custom box, using tiled maps, on behalf of Vodafone, back in 2002. I still remember I wrote a basic trans-mercator library too!

    Of course Mercator projection may go out of fashion soon https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/world-map-eq... :)

    Hope I'm called back to update the library ;)

    by SillyUsername

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