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Re:How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Pa... by JKCalhoun on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @11:38PM (#40654223)
> So Carmack ... started reading research papers.

I feel it was more common in the earlier days of programming. With no open source "game engines" and the Githubbed, Stackoverflown internet we have now fetching about for some of the "programming secrets" whether that was in a university library or a technical computer magazine was about all you had.

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Re:How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Pa... by sterlind on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:20PM (#40673488)
Most of my career as an algorithm designer has been to boil problems down to their abstract essence, categorizing what kind of problem it is, reading papers to find a solution and implementing it.

Unfortunately, ACM and IEEE are paywalled, as are many of the specialty journals for operations research and the like. Newer stuff is often on Arxiv, but the simple algorithms usually live in older papers that aren't.

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