ID_AA_Carmack

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Even the best lab demos of AR glasses today, assembled at eye-watering prices, are not the holy vision of “augmenting reality” that Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are both chasing. There are deep challenges with continuous rendering to see-through displays in this form factor for

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Consider the Flash, with the speed and reaction time to pluck bullets out of the air. That wouldn’t keep you from getting shot in the back of the head with a supersonic round with no warning to react to. He could constantly look around, swiveling his head at thousands of RPM to https://t.co/yOspH4LDdq

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TFW you flip so many matrices that you wind up with: C = (A.t @ B.t).t And realize you can just do: C = B @ A

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There is an alternate reality where Cray took their vector supercomputers, ditched FP64 calculations, and went with one FP32 pipe and a BF16 tensor core pipe. The same instruction set, memory architecture, and vector registers would have made a sweet deep learning machine, in https://t.co/GRsQiNv8HC

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I'm going to call it right now. A lot of stuff is going to break on this mission. By design. As part of the plan. Don't get upset. I'm not saying SpaceX plans to fail. I'm pointing out that SpaceX has taken an ultraimportant principle from software engineering, and realized https://t.co/cixUEIu8Ys

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I love the @arcade_1up cabinets that @Project2501_117 has given me the last couple years. Yes, you can run free emulators on almost any device, but having the games running in a cabinet with arcade controls is a much better experience, even though it is just a packaged emulator. https://t.co/IXW7Mekbzw

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RT @ID_AA_Carmack: @rubyrangerr I think you are misunderstanding what this tech demo actually is, but I will engage with what I think your…

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Dave T?ht died yesterday. He was one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a close friend of mine who I will miss very badly. Dave, known on X as @mtaht because his birth name was Michael, was a true hacker of the old school who touched the lives of everybody using X. His

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It is now time to scale the great steps to Mount Olympus! High above the Aegean Sea, discover the legendary realm of the gods and goddesses. Here, the Olympians are converging to determine the fate of you mortals—through an epic miniature golf odyssey. https://t.co/6i4Aa9XZ0I https://t.co/69VqHp8ACU

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The second Nvidia book to come out this year, complementing The Nvidia Way with more of a focus on Jensen personally. I enjoyed it, but I am slightly miffed about having a quote from me fabricated: “We wanted a faster responding Quake so our customers could reach out and frag https://t.co/gseKTCxXur

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I thought I had good reason to code up a vectorized binary search, which was kind of fun to do, but then I checked, and the standard torch.searchsorted() works well enough. For all the emphasis given in computer science curriculums and job interviews, actually implementing

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Have any of the big AI labs written publicly about how they schedule usage of their GPU clusters between research, frontier training, and production?

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Why are people vibe coding games with @threejs instead of using game engines like Unity or Unreal? I got a ton of questions and messages about this and wanted to write some of my thoughts in more detail.

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I wonder if a universal trial period for all paid apps would be good for VR (or any platform). Steam has the two-hour refund period, which gets sort of abused this way, but making it explicit and encouraging it seems like a good idea — Try everything! This would be a market

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I first read this book about Seymour Cray and the supercomputer space a couple decades ago. Rereading it now, with some big-company experience and after the extended-and-disappointing Rage development at Id makes me feel even more kinship with Seymour. The ability to start each https://t.co/W867eXSD0X

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RT @sdamico: My sources inside SpaceX tell me that you just need lots of Formula SAE [a college formula one style competition] new grads…

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3D printing can do amazing things, but if you have to make more than one or two of something, metal fabrication can very often be literally better, faster, and cheaper. Designing parts to process is very similar to software system optimization — knowing what the available tools

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EA just released source code for a bunch of old Command and Conquer games, and added Steam Workshop support to bangers like C&C 3: Tiberium Wars. https://t.co/CMMAfnd2qL

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@tlbtlbtlb This seemed rather high, so I read the paper. I don't believe it. The plastic they get the high numbers for was polyethylene, and the method that gave them that number was Py-GC/MS. That's pyrolysis fed into gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.

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For ages, the sophisticated nihilistic view has been that shrinking the federal budget is hopeless because it is dominated by politically untouchable entitlements. The possibility those entitlements are substantially composed of politically tractable fraud and waste is exciting!

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