John Carmack

A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepneas in the Sky are two of my favorite books of all time, and I recommend them to everyone.

A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepneas in the Sky are two of my favorite books of all time, and I recommend them to everyone.

Looking through the Dune 2 (amazing movie!) art book, I was thinking about the relationship between art and games. In the early days, you just couldn’t apply much art to a game. The fundamental display resolution and color palette were very limited, and distribution media size…

This is a great little book to take you from “vaguely understand neural networks” to the modern broad state of practice. I saw very little to quibble with.

I have been re-watching @COSMOSonTV with Trista, and I still find it a wonderfully wholesome celebration of science. I wish that literally everyone in the world had at least that as a foundation of knowledge to build on.

I enjoyed this. Biography has never been one of my favorite genres, and I have a bit of an irrational bias against reading bios of people I have interacted with personally, but I am reevaluating.

I really enjoyed 1633, the second book in “The Ring of Fire” — plop a 21st century American town into 17th century Europe and see what happens. It is “competence porn”, but a different take than post-apocalyptic works.

https://amazon.com/1633-Ring-Fire-Book-2-ebook/dp/B00AP8YZI0/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QZ36I3AYHTM6&keywords=1633+book&qid=1691162569&sprefix=1633+book%2Caps%2C115&sr=8-1

Book 2 of… 27 ???

Reading a book on the history of libraries makes me want a physical scroll of classic Roman fabrication, but with a translated text I can actually read. Are there still artisans that take commissions? It looks like new Torah scrolls are still made.

I read it again a couple years ago, and I still appreciate it. I will probably continue reading it once a decade.

My younger son has been adding lots of features to his game -- menus, tutorials, difficulties, and 60 total levels now. I highly recommend the Khan Academy programming sandbox, it is "real" programming, but in a fun, interactive way! Give it a try!

Interesting to read that ten year old article raving about the benefits, but it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. Sounds neat!

That was a Very Important Book for me!