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The AI’s map tooling powered an exhaustive study of Ireland's unlisted gardens

The AI wrote the tooling to annotate historic map tiles and a CV model ran across the rest for an exhaustive study of unlisted formal gardens in Ireland; a decade-planned project done in a weekend.

How it works

  1. The AI writes tooling to annotate historic map tiles
  2. A vision model runs across the rest
  3. An exhaustive study of unlisted formal gardens, planned for a decade, gets done

Why it’s worth knowing

Exhaustive is the word that matters: every tile, not a sample.

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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