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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by nickjj on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:47PM (#21531117)
John Carmack is practically a machine.

He's openly talked about his work ethic in a bunch of places. He's the type of guy who after a life time of coding calculated he's 100% efficient up until 13 hour work days and then he drops off[0]. Although he did mention working those long hours is often best working on multiple things instead of 1 topic but maybe with AGI there's a bunch of different avenues to explore.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8&t=4773

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by Rapzid on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:02PM (#21531687)
He must have some very good advice on getting a good nights sleep. Makes all the difference IMHO.
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by archagon on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:46PM (#21532868)
He did tweet that unlike many engineers, he can't be productive unless he gets a full 8 hours of sleep (IIRC).
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by codesushi42 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:08PM (#21532114)
Uuh, AI research has nothing to do with coding all nighters. This is a common misconception among software engineers. It is more a science, and less an engineering problem. It is more about running experiments than it is writing fancy algorithms.

You are bound by the amount of data and computational resources you have at your disposal. Neither are tied to man hours. You can stay up all night for days waiting for your model to train, and it will do you no good.

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