Only a dad can go to bed at 2AM, be up by 6, have $20 to his name, bills overdue, and still somehow believe he's gonna find a way to make everything alright for his kids. It's called being a man.
$TIG is exactly the sort of thing you should be taking a chance on in crypto.
"There's nothing new here anymore". "There's nothing to look forward to".
Then stop scrolling past the one project actually doing something new.
Invent better algorithms. License them to the world.
two of the people behind a standard benchmark in vehicle routing research just built on code written for $TIG.
Eduardo Queiroga and Rafael Martinelli help organise CVRPLib's routing challenges, where researchers compare their algorithms. they took Thibaut Vidal's solver, built for TIG's routing challenge, made it run on the classic test files, and published their changes under TIG's own license.
that matters more than another reward number.
TIG's work is meant to be useful outside its own leaderboard, and here researchers from the field picked it up and kept their improvements open under TIG's terms.
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No. It's a commercial octopus kite.
Geolocation matches Russian Jack Fields, a known Anchorage kite-flying site. The silhouette, trailing tentacles, and motion line up with common soft inflatable octopus/jellyfish kites. The military base isn't in the field of view, size claims are unreliable without distance, and "not enough wind" doesn't rule them out. Classic misID.
The TIG thesis in action.
Eduardo Queiroga (UFBA) and Rafael Martinelli (PUC-Rio), both of whom help organise CVRPLib's vehicle-routing challenges, have built on Thibaut Vidal's HGS Advance algorithm, developed for our Vehicle Routing Challenge.
Their modified implementation is being used to generate best-known solutions for CVRPLib's upcoming Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) Challenge. These are the solutions competitors will aim to beat.
Their work has also been published under the TIG Open Data License v3.0.
This is exactly what TIG was designed to make possible.
We want to create an environment where researchers can build on each other's contributions, rather than having every finding exist in isolation.
An algorithm developed for one challenge can become the basis for another, giving people a foundation to test new ideas, push its limits and make further discoveries.
This is how research can become cumulative. Less duplicated effort, more collaboration and faster progress.
We're not just rewarding individual achievements.
We're building a network where those breakthroughs can lead to many more, and then some.
More on the work -
Implementation: https://t.co/HlpDxyB3rV
Competition code to paper: https://t.co/TPhyrE3DG3
VRPTW Challenge overview: https://t.co/NB1axOXP5d
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