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		nemo1618 on Nov 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI Update, Late 2019 >John Carmack is going to take a shot at AI. Whatever he accomplishes in that field I hope it will be equally as entertaining as Quake and equally as smart as the fast inverse square root algorithm. John Carmack did not invent the fast inverse square root algorithm. (I'm still rooting for him, though!)

chubot on Nov 18, 2019 [–]

Hm interesting, I knew it from Quake and implicitly assumed that it was Carmack's trick. But Wikipedia has some more history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Histo...

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