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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by ausjke on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:53PM (#21531170)
he is 49 this year, considered as one of the most genius programmer on earth. There are professors still doing real work at 90+ year old(yes, the UT professor goodenough for Nobel prize), John has a long way ahead, best luck!
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by chasd00 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:26PM (#21531416)
i've heard he was pretty good, i didn't realize he was this widely respected and admired. I remember him for that fast inverse square root hack but that's about it.
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by galangalalgol on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:47PM (#21531588)
I think he got that from someone at SGI.
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by galangalalgol on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:48PM (#21531593)
Or was the second person to independently come up with it.
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by zhynn on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:45PM (#21531565)
He's already a legend, and he's not even 50.
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by streetcat1 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:58PM (#21531668)
Just out of curiosity, how do you define a genius programmer? (vs regular programmer).
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by hunterjrj on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:35PM (#21531928)
How about “wrote the Doom engine, then the Quake engine”. Good start?
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by tirewarehouse on Thursday November 14, 2019 @12:22PM (#21537275)
He ushered in modern gaming, and everything he did in that domain was way ahead of the curve.
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