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[joeconway]

Ocean carriers already optimize and it’s odd to have the article suggest they don’t. The company Sofar Ocean (https://www.sofarocean.com/products/wayfinder) does it in a particularly interesting way and actually has people using it, rather than a theoretical analysis of a small number of voyages

[algo_trader → joeconway]

> Ocean carriers already optimize

Of course. But slow sailing is a co-ordination problem. You need an enforcer and a penalty system.

> Sofar Ocean .. does it in a particularly interesting way

What is the "particularly interesting" way? It seems like a "basic" optimizer over known data

[joeconway → algo_trader]

They make and deploy their own weather monitoring buoys for weather prediction