Deep Thoughts Engineering Speaker Series: John Carmack

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  • Опубліковано 28 гру 2024

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  • @jlouzado
    @jlouzado 4 роки тому +199

    If I had to summarize:
    - don't be too attached to your ideas, because most ideas aren't actually that valuable
    - when you get an idea, try to think about it and prove why it won't work.
    - if you can't do that, start prototyping as soon as possible. The longer you delay it, the higher the risk of getting attached to it
    - once you get attached to an idea, it's difficult to maintain objectivity.
    - falsifying an idea (either by thinking about it or prototyping) is often the way to get better at having ideas or at understanding the problem you're working on.
    This process leads to better idea generation as you keep iterating.
    Loved the talk

    • @jmitesh01
      @jmitesh01 3 роки тому

      Thanks Joel. By the falsying an idea comes again and again i.e., to ask question or generate idea use intuition but not to answer them.

    • @Frodohack
      @Frodohack 3 роки тому +6

      I think you missed the most important:
      - don't stay in front of a black canvas to wait for the complete idea, but form your creativity by getting exposed to a lot of things and look at them trough the lenses of the problem you're working on.

    • @w0ode198
      @w0ode198 Рік тому

      Exactly, I need this in my life process.

    • @ZvonimirStimac-w3r
      @ZvonimirStimac-w3r Рік тому

      long live the cyborg initiative

    • @MikkoRantalainen
      @MikkoRantalainen 11 місяців тому

      Great summary!

  • @dungeoneering1974
    @dungeoneering1974 4 роки тому +69

    I'm not an engineer, but I always enjoy his talks. He has a way of clearly articulating ideas, problems, and solutions, and never talks down to his audience.

    • @goldnutter412
      @goldnutter412 2 роки тому

      Same, nice shirt too

    • @thanos879
      @thanos879 5 днів тому

      I would like this, but I don't wanna be the 70th like

  • @Consural
    @Consural 4 роки тому +122

    * Carmack randomly looks at the ceiling *
    * proceeds to deliver a detailed lecture on ducts *

    • @Falcrist
      @Falcrist 4 роки тому +7

      Carmack understands as well as anyone that neat little engineering tricks are all around us.

    • @SuperSkandale
      @SuperSkandale 4 роки тому

      Yup, I luv it.

    • @cyberoverkill5844
      @cyberoverkill5844 3 роки тому

      Lol

    • @jhawley031
      @jhawley031 3 роки тому +8

      Our minds cannot not uderstand the inner workings of the 4th dimensional spacetime anomaly that is John Carmack

    • @theraygood
      @theraygood 3 роки тому +2

      Priceless

  • @StartuePotoya
    @StartuePotoya 2 роки тому +4

    Mr. Carmack , hello, I think you know and can imagine how many people use your base and enchanced QuakeC , thanks a lot for digital prescios ! Everytime when developers starts talks about 3d FPS they remember Quake , you and John Romero . You are living Legend . Thanks for all.

  • @MrMarlonski
    @MrMarlonski Рік тому +2

    This man is truly something else... a force of Brilliance and a true human World Wonder in science, engineering, entertainment, intelligence etc. etc. Pushing the boundary of what Human's biologically and mentally are capable of. I'm by far not working/skilled in your field of work, an advid player of your legendary games, expecially Q1 and Q3A and Doom. I Grandiosely Salute you mr. John Carmack.

  • @SiddharthKulkarniN
    @SiddharthKulkarniN 4 роки тому +137

    This guy can talk sensibly for hours.

    • @2006969
      @2006969 4 роки тому

      talk and doing this (for the mc's and dj's, for the underground masses🤘)

    • @masterkraft4746
      @masterkraft4746 2 роки тому +2

      that''s what gods are supposed to be able to do

    • @jonathanjimmyshearman2500
      @jonathanjimmyshearman2500 Рік тому +1

      I loves settlings down with Johns videos, with a good supper dee and a ginger ale😄.

  •  4 роки тому +27

    (one of the many) QOTD from this talk: «The ideas aren’t the important thing, it’s the execution where a good project is the result of hundreds or even thousands of good decisions that are made along the way.»

  • @bengonshaw8228
    @bengonshaw8228 4 роки тому +14

    I gave a talk about John's talk, only yesterday morning, after spending hours searching for it. What serendipity for John to get the clearance to post it on the very same day.

  • @websitesetup3487
    @websitesetup3487 4 роки тому +44

    3:10 speech starts

  • @xenoneo
    @xenoneo 4 роки тому +5

    Thanks John. :)
    Great advice for approaching ideas or anything you feel strongly about.
    Feel good about poking holes in them, so you know you aren't deluding yourself.

  • @MrStarchild3001
    @MrStarchild3001 4 роки тому +21

    It blows me away that this guy is almost 45 yrs old [in this video] and revolutionized gaming in the 90ies :)
    John, I should mention I really appreciate the direction you're headed... regarding pursuing AI in this decade. I feel some actual thinking, talking machine is a decade away. (per Kurzweil, but also given all the recent progress with NLP, question answering, text generation, GPT2 etc).

  • @HaroldCombs
    @HaroldCombs 4 роки тому +83

    I think we can all agree we'd like Carmack to work on fusion energy.

    • @nolan412
      @nolan412 4 роки тому +3

      Critical path it: fusion needs? Helium 3! He3 is on the moon. The moon needs robots. Robots need operators. Operators need VR!

    • @gallerdude2000
      @gallerdude2000 4 роки тому +11

      I'm glad he's working on AGI, it feels like that could have a lot more of an impact.

    • @Al1987ac
      @Al1987ac 4 роки тому +2

      @@gallerdude2000 yeah, then AGI could work on fusion. Or Helium.

    • @Consural
      @Consural 4 роки тому +3

      Nope, I'd like him to work on Artificial Intelligence. And thankfully, he already is.

    • @wildwest1832
      @wildwest1832 4 роки тому +2

      well he learned and worked on building space ships and rockets already. Probably pretty doable for him. He knew nothing about rockets, and literally got a bunch of books from the library and learned it all on its own. Now he knows it. he can learn new things very quickly

  • @mitchalwaggoner1648
    @mitchalwaggoner1648 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you John, hope to see more content from you here in the future.

  • @AldenFilionCG
    @AldenFilionCG 4 роки тому +2

    More please!!! I could listen to a Carmack rendering talk for hours. Thank you for sharing!

  • @whistlegraph
    @whistlegraph 4 роки тому +4

    This channel is gonna rock. 🌀

  • @dustin_echoes
    @dustin_echoes 4 роки тому +79

    The god king of nerds himself.

    • @yosha2467
      @yosha2467 4 роки тому +3

      Rumors say that If you read SICP right after listening to Carmack you gain MP irl.

    • @miguelpereira9859
      @miguelpereira9859 4 роки тому +1

      The ultimate nerd, to rule them all

    • @rafalkowalczyk5027
      @rafalkowalczyk5027 3 роки тому +1

      Chief Engineering Officer

  • @thunderwood
    @thunderwood 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent talk. Thank you for sharing!

  • @rainthstrive
    @rainthstrive 4 роки тому +7

    And here I just filtered John Carmack talks by upload date, and found this. Nice

  • @spencereaston8292
    @spencereaston8292 4 роки тому +1

    Love hearing the work meme being used correctly.

  • @MikkoRantalainen
    @MikkoRantalainen 11 місяців тому +2

    30:50 I think Elon Musk should simply offer to test some of the ideas Carmack has. It's obvious that Carmack is not about patenting these ideas so it should be fine if SpaceX pays for the testing and potentially starts using the results.

  • @AdamFiregate
    @AdamFiregate 4 роки тому +25

    Thanks for the video. Next time please do a little post production, the audio is still -20 dB below normalized level.

    • @vbnandu867
      @vbnandu867 4 роки тому

      Thanks for this ... i thought had a problem with my speakers!

    • @AdamFiregate
      @AdamFiregate 4 роки тому

      @@vbnandu867 check out: 1. Right click on video 2. Stats for nerds. says content loudness -20.7dB

  • @miltiadiskoutsokeras9189
    @miltiadiskoutsokeras9189 4 роки тому +3

    Talk for hours without notes or preparation. That is what a genius does.

    • @michaelsteffensen6844
      @michaelsteffensen6844 4 роки тому

      That's just called being passionate about something. Though I'm sure Carmack could probably qualify as a genius.

  • @josephwong2832
    @josephwong2832 4 роки тому +2

    This guy is a legend

  • @Metalvain4
    @Metalvain4 4 роки тому +15

    John, please consider doing\making a Master Class. Would gratefully and humbly sign up!

  • @andersmusikka
    @andersmusikka 4 роки тому

    What is the name of the steel mentioned at 32:31? Maraging steel?

  • @alexz1232
    @alexz1232 4 роки тому +8

    Someone get this man a board marker that isn't dead.

    • @andrybak
      @andrybak 3 роки тому +1

      The second marker was held without the cap for long time...

    • @VashStarwind
      @VashStarwind 4 місяці тому

      @@andrybak Those markers arent suppose to dry out without a cap for like a day

  • @geneshifter
    @geneshifter 4 роки тому +16

    John starts at 3:19

    • @LukePluto
      @LukePluto 4 роки тому

      FYI the person doing the introduction, Kent Beck, is also a legendary programmer and offers some insightful comments

    • @geneshifter
      @geneshifter 4 роки тому

      LukePluto yes I know

  • @orrimoch5226
    @orrimoch5226 3 роки тому

    A must for every engineer

  • @jhawley031
    @jhawley031 3 роки тому +3

    Is that omnipotent hyperspace information singularity John Carmack?

    • @technoskull
      @technoskull 3 роки тому

      yep, thats Engineering Elemental and Luddite Nemesis, John Carmack

  • @johnhammer8668
    @johnhammer8668 4 роки тому +1

    John Carmack channel !!! yay

  • @ksec6631
    @ksec6631 4 роки тому +37

    Am I the only one with audio problems? I can barely hear him speak with 100% volume.

    • @AdamFiregate
      @AdamFiregate 4 роки тому +7

      For everyone. The audio is still -20 dB below normalized level. It needs post production.

    • @JohnLeidegren
      @JohnLeidegren 4 роки тому +2

      There's a stereo issue to. The right channel is louder, a lot louder than the left. There's an echo in the left channel that is not in the right channel. It's like there was two different microphones recording the same audio in different acoustic environments. What the heck. A mono recording of the right channel would be better by itself than this.
      There's an EQ extension to Chrome that can be used to force mono. You can then cut off the high and low frequencies and boost around 1.5-3KHz, better but it still feels weird because the left channel has a very odd acustic to it.

    • @magyararon6918
      @magyararon6918 4 роки тому

      ​@@JohnLeidegren WOW! Thanks you man, the fked up "stereo" recordings on youtube was driving me absolutely insane with headphones, so many video has bad audio recording where they use stereo, but in a horrible(unbalanced, artificial) way.
      I found this addon: "Left Right Sound Select
      " and with 1 click you can switch between mono left/right, before this i used to do windows MONO audio features in the settings panel, but that always chrashed the youtube video player after 2 switch.

  • @HavocGamingChannel
    @HavocGamingChannel 4 роки тому +11

    The one dislike is from Zenimax

    • @BTakes138
      @BTakes138 10 днів тому

      Most likely from John himself because he didn't like the way he explained something.

  • @RyanR3STL3SS
    @RyanR3STL3SS 4 роки тому +3

    More like this please!

  • @TimMug
    @TimMug 3 роки тому

    Hopefully some more of these internal presentations can be allowed for release

  • @zenithpinch
    @zenithpinch 3 місяці тому

    absolute legend

  • @thanos879
    @thanos879 8 днів тому +1

    They figured out foveated rendering quick. This was only 4 years ago.

  • @goldnutter412
    @goldnutter412 Рік тому

    50:10 the brain is just the pass through to the mind, another layer of entropy managing (self aware, whatever that means) information system
    Chopping things up means less entropy in the fully immersed "universe", very hard to not feel seasick in violent movements. The latency and other factors matter so much because of what your mind expects the data streams - video/audio and nervous system and inner ear system.. all meant to be nicely in sync. Big changes means horrible entropy trying to process what the brain is structuring. When you think of the universe as just another window, it makes much more sense.. turtles all the way down so to speak.. fundamental data | information primitives ? patterns and priority/meta tags allow very rich "Akashic" data structures. Parallelized and seemingly decentralized, becoming more specialized and a lower entropy overall..
    We have to render the data stream ourselves (observer effect) JIT and hence quantum mechanics.. it depends what you do, whether data is available as to what shared consistent view of reality we get. Probabilistic future reality is obviously incredibly efficient rendered this way, as we are always a heap of orders of magnitude ahead of the rendering when using our intent. Is the universe dynamic wallpaper ? yes !

  • @MikkoRantalainen
    @MikkoRantalainen 11 місяців тому

    Great talk but unfortunately the audio is pretty poor with usable audio on the right channel only and even that's around -33 LUFS instead of -14 LUFS that UA-cam would prefer.

  • @RiceMunk
    @RiceMunk 4 роки тому +8

    Great talk, but awful sound quality. Understandbly it's probably because of awful mics in the talk, but nothing that can't be mostly fixed with a bit of mixing.
    Looking forward to more stuff on this channel, but please fix the sounds for them. :D

  • @Mac_Daffy
    @Mac_Daffy 4 роки тому

    35:25 light field rendering technology and OTOY

  • @DanielleNewnham
    @DanielleNewnham 3 роки тому

    Dream podcast guest

  • @theraygood
    @theraygood 3 роки тому +1

    Maybe John can grace us with some more insightful videos.

  • @Xyos212
    @Xyos212 4 роки тому +4

    Interesting to think about what hes advising on ideas and actual execution in relation to the Theranos situation. Elizabeth Holmes had an idea and loosely thought out specs without any real engineering backing it. Its just crazy though to think of all the support and financial backing she acquired based on an idea alone without anyone actually auditing the proposed engineering behind it or evaluating any of the prototypes.

  • @damagepy
    @damagepy 4 роки тому +4

    Oh lol, I have an idea for 15 years now, and for some reason I finally decided to try to share it with someone who may actually understand it (3D engine speedup thing to look more detailed while rendering 5-10x faster) and sent an email to John and then half day later today I found this video... about ideas... I don't know if its a good sign or bad sign... Maybe I even picked the wrong email... the johnc at ocu one. :)

  • @Jyaif
    @Jyaif 4 роки тому +3

    What is bit-spreading?

    • @markettinger2147
      @markettinger2147 4 роки тому +6

      He used this term in the context of showing that there are as many points in the unit interval (0,1) as there are in the unit square (0,1) x (0,1). The idea is that given a string of bits, A, you can get two strings of bits, B and C, by taking the odd bits from A to get B and the even bits from A to get C. Furthermore _any_ pair of bit strings (B,C) can be obtained in this way by taking A to be the string of bits composed of alternating bits from B and C.

  • @valeriogreco5963
    @valeriogreco5963 4 роки тому +1

    I'm curious to know what John Carmack thinks of DooM Eternal.

    • @AdrianMeredith
      @AdrianMeredith 4 роки тому +1

      The Longer John Carmack is on Earth, the stronger he becomes

  • @wartem
    @wartem 2 роки тому

    - How bad is the sound?
    - Yes

  • @RoryOConnor
    @RoryOConnor 4 роки тому +1

    Kitchen Rolls/Croissant packs have that spiral tube design & twisting causes the break, always thought it would take off ..doh ..as a recycling procedure! If you could crack the ridiculous sharpness of tin/alu cans for domestic recycling!
    I think some of your "antifragile" less robust ideas would work on devolved "experiences" rather than full robust game engines! They would be ideal for webVR and possible create the constrained to inadvertently inspire new games/apps.
    eg. If you were viewing a house , you could confine the viewing angles/aggressively cull and direct the entire experience, incorporating all of your performance wins, even as stylized brand video-style-transitions (ye gross but..anyway lol) etc.. I think "Ratchet & Clank" played with interlacing concepts or maybe just ended up as styled retro video lines etc..

  • @VivekBoseShree
    @VivekBoseShree 4 роки тому +31

    Nice content kid, you've got potential to be a big UA-camr. You should try to make a game engine.

    • @Knoby1000
      @Knoby1000 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah, some great engine like the one Doom run on, that would be great.

    • @VashStarwind
      @VashStarwind 4 місяці тому

      I wish hed make an engine that would compete with Unreal. Unreal sucks. Just update iD tech, and license it..

  • @Ntcartuchos
    @Ntcartuchos 4 роки тому

    Dude.... amazinnnn

  • @hotel-taxi
    @hotel-taxi 4 роки тому +2

    Hello from future. The concept of global cyber network of modular mobile robo hotels / art galleries, as platform of life support services - all in one.

  • @BernhardHofmann
    @BernhardHofmann 4 роки тому

    The video you came for starts at @3:28

  • @PatrickQT
    @PatrickQT 4 місяці тому

    "You probably ate poison and you should throw up" 😂

  • @rudolfolah7773
    @rudolfolah7773 4 роки тому

    Incredible.

  • @nolan412
    @nolan412 4 роки тому +2

    I need to stop debugging by staring at the floor/wall. The full code's not there.

    • @nolan412
      @nolan412 4 роки тому +1

      Day later: was using the wrong variable.

    • @nolan412
      @nolan412 4 роки тому +1

      Elon Musk ran with the spiral weld.

  • @MetatroN197924
    @MetatroN197924 4 роки тому

    Implementation and perception.

  • @HueyTheDoctor
    @HueyTheDoctor 4 роки тому

    22:30 Foveated rendering gets a discussion.

  • @jdmaine51084
    @jdmaine51084 4 роки тому +3

    How does John Carmack only have 72 subscribers?

    • @KingLich451
      @KingLich451 4 роки тому +1

      he got those subs in the matter of half an hour or something, i only have 67 subscribers and I made that in 5+ years

    • @jdmaine51084
      @jdmaine51084 4 роки тому

      @@KingLich451 Yeah I'm just realizing now that this is his first post. Awesome!

    • @AndrewMaksym
      @AndrewMaksym 4 роки тому

      When I first saw the video there was only 23, I am the 23rd.

  • @heyheyhophop
    @heyheyhophop 4 роки тому

    John, is the secret plan to make us all send you our ideas w/o NDA, so you could pull out what you (they say) did with the Occulus IP? :D
    Kidding, we all love you no matter what, I think.

  • @jonathanjimmyshearman2500
    @jonathanjimmyshearman2500 Рік тому

    Power to Jondi! Power to Doom! Power to reveletory nostalgic immersive science fiction!🌌👾🤖

  • @noahkirkpatrick8912
    @noahkirkpatrick8912 4 роки тому

    Carmack please make cheap haptic wearable devices for VR. You lest us see now make us feel.

  • @FineBakedPastry
    @FineBakedPastry 4 роки тому

    Genius.

  • @cesig
    @cesig 4 роки тому +7

    I can't believe a guy like John Carmack would work for Facebook.

    • @PauloConstantino167
      @PauloConstantino167 4 роки тому

      Carmack wants money.

    • @jacejunk
      @jacejunk 4 роки тому +3

      He's no longer with Facebook.

    • @cyrillebournival2328
      @cyrillebournival2328 3 роки тому

      Mark could afford a pet John. My advice: If you can't do it in an afternoon, you can't do it. A recent exemble is computers and self driving cars, it's like a toddler trying to fit a square shape in the triangle hole, it just doesn't fit.

    • @VashStarwind
      @VashStarwind 4 місяці тому

      Me either. FB sucks.

    • @BTakes138
      @BTakes138 10 днів тому

      You have to give FB credit for choosing someone like John and giving him some control.

  • @HeatIIEXTEND
    @HeatIIEXTEND 2 місяці тому

    7:10 droppin'names hehe

  • @themodfather9382
    @themodfather9382 3 роки тому

    3:27 starts

  • @Ashtree81
    @Ashtree81 4 роки тому +5

    Johns physical appearence has not changed in 30 years, whats his secret?!

  • @marijhorn
    @marijhorn 4 роки тому

    so glad that so smart guy as him just already understand that the topic of VR is stupid.. :D but took a while.

  • @rhrabar0004
    @rhrabar0004 4 роки тому

    Holy shit how did Louis CK get to host this event?

  • @leonardoforero3369
    @leonardoforero3369 3 роки тому

    que?

  • @KingLich451
    @KingLich451 4 роки тому +1

    Sweet :D

    • @KingLich451
      @KingLich451 4 роки тому

      he sure got that introduction short...
      3:29

  • @sidsarasvati
    @sidsarasvati 4 роки тому

    number of times he said “idea”

  • @MurtagBY
    @MurtagBY 4 роки тому

    Hey John. please practice pauses in your speech :)

  • @slot9
    @slot9 4 роки тому

    Sweet

  • @MaximumADHD
    @MaximumADHD 4 роки тому

    Oh hi!

  • @keyboard_g
    @keyboard_g 4 роки тому

    3:20

  • @id15yes2
    @id15yes2 Рік тому

    Here is a magical idea: take a spade, shovel or whatever, and slim the wooden handle tilll it's rounded triange, make it comfortable to hold. So, while digging out potatoes your back will not feel any pain. It's checked and works, the magic being i didn't see anyone using something like that, very simlpe though.(isn't it a good comment in a proper place ?-joke)

  • @swyxTV
    @swyxTV 4 роки тому +3

    gotta imagine that John Carmack looks at us like we look at normal nonengineer people

  • @khkgkgkjgkjh6647
    @khkgkgkjgkjh6647 4 роки тому +3

    John should help SpaceX to build the Starship.

  • @antekone1
    @antekone1 4 роки тому

    The way John speaks reminds me of the animation in old adventure games, e.g. Secret of the Monkey Island - ua-cam.com/video/DSThwNlS_qA/v-deo.html - I really don't know why :D

  • @mattsb5196
    @mattsb5196 3 роки тому

    Intro by Louis CK.

  • @maestbobo
    @maestbobo 4 роки тому +1

    Who's the intro guy? He's incredibly patronising and pontificating.

  • @cidess3698
    @cidess3698 4 роки тому +1

    based

  • @DEvilParsnip
    @DEvilParsnip 4 роки тому +1

    who said nerds cant talk :)

    • @psibarpsi
      @psibarpsi 7 місяців тому

      the world belongs to the nerds who can talk.

  • @vinniciusrosa8284
    @vinniciusrosa8284 10 місяців тому

    He is coding Quake 5 while talking.

  • @NoName-rs4us
    @NoName-rs4us Рік тому

    John you are cool and very bright chap...
    sadly, back in the day you made some psychopathic games which current generation dont admire...😂😂😂😂😂
    You and your team started fps genre but you heard this dozen times over half of your life already.
    Shame you hide your hands....joker is coming...
    I think you evolved and left gaming behind but new survival Quake would be cool to play. I enjoyed your multiplayer software a Lot!

  • @baumstamp5989
    @baumstamp5989 4 роки тому

    automate everything.

  • @jamesgerard9330
    @jamesgerard9330 4 місяці тому

    faceless evil company... facebook?

  •  4 роки тому

    I think he’s just talking to himself.

  • @PashaDefragzor
    @PashaDefragzor 4 роки тому +1

    New Oculus ? No thank you. Previous generation engineering doesn't looked so dangerous as new. Even Quake was better. Have you seen Facebook ux ? Even by old grandmother says its a fake. Even some random guy is promoting Quake games now - wtf . Have u seen new Terminator , have you seen new online games like Warcraft 3 ? Please. Is it a progress ?

  • @aidanthompson5053
    @aidanthompson5053 Рік тому

    1:44