John CarmackVerified account

@ID_AA_Carmack

Oculus VR CTO

Dallas, TX
oculusvr.com
Joined August 2010
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  1. Aug 12

    The CM1 could execute any 3-in,2-out logic op. Would be interesting to see what use today's analysis could make of the unusual truth tables.

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  2. Aug 12

    Reading the original Connection Machine thesis. 64k single bit processors programmed in Lisp.

    51 retweets 132 likes
  3. Aug 11

    agree, motivated me to share my thoughts

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  4. Aug 11

    When Armadillo Aerospace was active, I got a steady drip of fringe emails. Some were interesting, and made me think.

    What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists – via
    32 retweets 111 likes
  5. Aug 10

    Explaining the traveling salesman problem as the pokestop path problem.

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  6. Aug 8

    if your price is too low, it's dumping, if it's too high, it's gouging, if it's the same as your competitors, it's collusion.

    58 retweets 132 likes
  7. Aug 8

    I have never liked the idea of anti-dumping laws. I wonder if some made-redundant company has ever tried to apply them to open source.

    10 retweets 48 likes
  8. Aug 8

    I get engineer-indignant whenever I see a mini-fridge placed in a sealed cabinet. Heat transfer, people! Give it a vent.

    81 retweets 319 likes
  9. Aug 8

    UI latencies in the few-hundred milliseconds+ range can start causing pilot-induced-oscillations if they are toggles, like show-controls.

    36 retweets 120 likes
  10. Aug 8

    I dislike "defer action until sure it isn't a double tap" UI, like tapping to bring up player controls in ios video. Bad latency!

    65 retweets 261 likes
  11. Aug 8

    I'm back in the office and I just played a lot of Minecraft for the Oculus Rift... it's definitely ready for release :)

    362 retweets 1,752 likes
  12. Aug 7

    It seems like you could make very large format lenses for line scan cameras by just cutting plastic sheet and clamping it in a mount.

    9 retweets 55 likes
  13. Aug 6

    It would be fun to do networking and video with nothing but ring buffers feeding ADC/DAC circuits with minimal analog conditioning.

    17 retweets 97 likes
  14. Aug 6

    I some times think about a computer that does everything on the main CPU with completely dumb peripherals so all the source is auditable.

    31 retweets 138 likes
  15. Aug 6

    Many things still stacked against it, but a future world of open source SoC development feels plausible, and interesting.

    56 retweets 135 likes
  16. Aug 6

    Rip and tear, my friends

    374 retweets 1,321 likes
  17. Aug 6

    There is wisdom that only comes from complete product cycles -- no amount of job hopping can provide it.

    665 retweets 1,051 likes
  18. Aug 5

    Developers of earth! Are you working in VR, or would like to be? Ping me if I can help from the side! And/or RT this?

    422 retweets 389 likes
  19. Aug 5

    In which I use Suicide Squad as an excuse to sing the praises of the Secret Six

    17 retweets 43 likes
  20. Aug 5

    There's a paper on the stress-strain curve of Mozzerella cheese. Hookean up to around 10 N of force.

    53 retweets 79 likes

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