The AI’s travel-time map renderer ate gigabytes and put the harbour in the wrong place

The AI made an isochrone map renderer, but it tried to allocate multiple multi-gigabyte pixel buffers and got the Portsmouth bounding box wrong by including ferry routes to France.

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How it works

The AI makes the isochrone map renderer
It tries to allocate multiple multi-gigabyte pixel buffers
Gets the coastal city's bounding box wrong, including the ferries

Why it’s worth knowing

Coastal cities break bounding boxes the way they break everything rectangular.

Where it’s from

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

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