> “This thing might as well have been discovered 50 years ago, but it wasn’t,” Thorup said. “That makes it that much more impressive.”

this is so cool to me, it feel like a solution you could* have stumbled upon while doing game development or something

*probably wouldn't but still

Im most curiosity how the algorithm fulfil the "global minima" that djixtra guarantees. The clumping of front-tier nodes seem prone to missing some solutions if unlucky.