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About John Carmack

Programming legend behind Doom and Quake at id Software. Former CTO of Oculus advancing consumer VR; now CEO of Keen Technologies building AGI with focus on efficient compute, simulation, and spatial interfaces.

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What John Recommends
tool · by Meta / Soumith Chintala · 12 mentions
app · by Casey Newton · 11 mentions
mit-technology-review
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oculus-quest
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netflix
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book · by Richard Sutton
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tool · by Microsoft
skill · by NVIDIA
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paper · by DeepMind
Sources (28)

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  1. Cruise Ship Elevator Pods Suffer from Visual Feedback Latency Causing User Missestweet · 2026-04-28
  2. Carmack Regrets Missing Engineering Tour After Bridge Visittweet · 2026-04-28
  3. Carmack Impressed by Cruise's Autonomous Tech Despite Limited Expertisetweet · 2026-04-28
  4. Post-Display Animations Enhance UX Without Delaying Critical Informationtweet · 2026-04-28
  5. FLOPS Evolution: From Rate Metric to Algorithmic Workload Measuretweet · 2026-04-20
  6. Digital Storage's Ephemeral Risk Contrasts Physical Media's Longevitytweet · 2026-04-20
  7. John Carmack Confirms Possession of Underground Blast-Proof Librarytweet · 2026-04-20
  8. LLM Training Enables Near-Lossless Compression of Massive Corpora Like Internet Archivetweet · 2026-04-20
  9. Carmack Signals Openness to Joining Viable AI Hardware Venturestweet · 2026-04-20
  10. Three-Species Model Explains Four-Year Cyclic Dominance in Sockeye Salmon via Neimark-Sacker Resonancepaper · 2026-04-13
  11. John Carmack Funds Library of Science Fiction Book Donationstweet · 2026-04-06
  12. Pairwise Comparisons for Improved Evaluation and Ranking Systemstweet · 2026-04-06
  13. GPU Power Draw as a Utilization Metrictweet · 2026-04-02
  14. Ablative Heat Shields: Historical Challenges and Modern Re-evaluation for Starshiptweet · 2026-04-01
  15. Early Attempts to Improve Value Function Generalization with SIGReg and LeWM show Limited Successtweet · 2026-04-01
  16. John Carmack X Feed: Link to an external resourcetweet · 2026-03-31
  17. LeWorldModel: An End-to-End Predictive World Model Leveraging LeJEPA for Roboticstweet · 2026-03-31
  18. Elon Musk's Exceptional Blend of Technical Acuity and Social Engagementtweet · 2026-03-31
  19. Incomplete Information Request on Data Origintweet · 2026-03-30
  20. Carmack on Palmer Luckey’s Delegation Skillstweet · 2026-03-30
  21. Carmack Advocates for 'Technological Triumphalism' in Tech Mediatweet · 2026-03-30
  22. Audio Quality Degradation in Bluetooth Streamingtweet · 2026-03-18
  23. Rethinking Advisory Boards: From Vibe Checks to Strategic Consultantstweet · 2026-03-17
  24. John Carmack on AI Training and Open Sourcetweet · 2026-03-13
  25. Platform Fee Structures: Optimizing for Developer Incentives and Economic Activitytweet · 2026-03-11
  26. Critiquing AI Ethics in "Understanding Deep Learning"tweet · 2026-03-09
  27. John Carmack on AGI Research: Why LLMs Aren't Enough and What Real-World RL Actually Requiresyoutube · 2025-07-09
  28. VR Expands Beyond Gaming to General Screen Replacement, Facing Technical and Social Hurdlesyoutube · 2019-08-29