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#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Do You See the Layers in a Certain Thing?
When I was a younger teenager, I didn't understand a lot of that stuff, how the different things worked. And wanted to know all of that there was like kind of magical information sitting down there it's like the elder lore that some gray beard wizard I was the keeper of. So I always felt that pull for wanting to know more wanting to explore the mysterious areas there. It followed right in through all the things that got the value exploring the video cards leading to the scrolling advantages and learning about BSP trees. You can drive a nail down through whatever layer cake problem space you've got and learn a cross section there. But that sense that yeah I always wanted to know it all I
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