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Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

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Post by chrisco255 »

anyfoo wrote: post #118
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This thread reminded me that Carmack has been a free software advocate in the past, and my citation is, quite amusingly, that book: > It was February 8, 1998, and Carmack was about to put his brain to the test: counting cards in blackjack. This had become something of a new fascination of his. “Having a reasonable grounding in statistics and probability and no belief in luck, fate, karma, or god(s), the only casino g…

Why not Poker? As someone who feels similarly, Poker is fun because you play against other people, rather than just statistics.

In 1998, not very many casinos ran poker rooms. It didn't start to boom as a game until after the WSOP on ESPN and online poker in the early 00s.

Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

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Post by kristopolous »

mrspeaker wrote: post #100
wmichelin wrote: post #20

Here is your daily reminder to read "Masters of Doom", a book about the early days at ID Software. It's an amazing look into a really cool time in gaming and software as a whole. It's a great book, mostly about John Carmack and the guys at ID! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom

Counterpoint (just to manage expectations - you should read it for sure!): I was hyped to read the book, but ended up finding it a bit tedious. The technical parts were not technical enough (sometimes flat-out wrong, or maybe, naive sounding?) and the rock star parts got repetitive (even a lot of the same phrases used over and over). Still great fun, but not as good as I'd hoped. I'd recommend Fabien Sanglards's Wolf…

I've been going through computer themed historical narratives; soul of a new machine, where wizards stay up late, doom, startup, just for fun...

The doom book is pretty forgettable and so is Linus's... I'll go take my cyanide pill now.

Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

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Post by dylanz »

jquast wrote: post #67

My favorite developer contributing to my favorite operating system! This is like Christmas. I’ve been contributing $ to OpenBSD since 3.x release days, and reading John carmack’s “.plan” file since Doom 2, when they ran digital Unix! Did you know: you have John Carmack to thank for first porting X11 to OSX? Thank you John!!

I share your excitement! I've never contributed to OpenBSD but have been running and following the distro for ages. I have a few mugs and t-shirts and support when I can. I'm hoping this may bring some fans of his over to the distro who wouldn't have run into (or contributed to) it before.

Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

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Post by swalsh »

cameronfraser wrote: post #21
toisanji wrote: post #3

I thought he was working on AGI? Gave up already?

Most people who actually work in AI know that AGI being possible is still an IF and IF it is possible, it is centuries or even further away (basically some indeterminate time frame because we don't even know if we're on the right path). The techniques we're using today are likely not going to be applicable to AGI. John Carmack is very smart, but I wouldn't place him on the same pedestal as any of our great historical…

I kind of get the feeling, that we're trying to build a plane by making the wings flap like a bird.

Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

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Post by Steve0 »

wjnc wrote: post #125
ChuckMcM wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can confirm that the facial recognition cameras and correlating faces to blackjack play is not rumor. To abuse a joke, "There are more cameras in a casino than in a East Village camera close out store." :-) Back in 2005 I was approached by one of the casino groups that was looking for a director of technology to manage the team that did "camera analytics". Seemed like a pretty neat job technically.

So just go to Europe? Pretty sure the GDPR prevents these kind of recognitions. So I looked up the privacy policy of Holland Casinos and there is no mention of facial recognition, only mention of CCTV for security purposes (under which I wouldn't expect prevention of adverse losses to fall) and a seven day storage period of camera footage. They are not explicit but suggest they do not use camera data for profiling pu…

Here is a policy of a London casino explaining their facial recognition to be compliant with the gdpr. I suppose this was written pre-brexit.

https://www.hippodromecasino.com/facial-recognition-policy/

Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

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Post by anderspitman »

wmichelin wrote: post #20

Here is your daily reminder to read "Masters of Doom", a book about the early days at ID Software. It's an amazing look into a really cool time in gaming and software as a whole. It's a great book, mostly about John Carmack and the guys at ID! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom

I read a lot and have read very few books more than once. This is one of them.

Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

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Post by unknown2374 »

Icedcool wrote: post #31
Icedcool wrote: post #9

Cool and exciting. Carmack has a level of brilliance that I find astounding. Some of his youtube video's of him talking about graphic rendering and compression are really cool.

For anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUxcVzpeFqc&list=PL-wlZ9j-w5...

Why does that link contain such a screwed up playlist?

Clean link to a different playlist with just the lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLfhkR8m8wYsgLEqr__PI...

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