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Pascal
“I built a programming language and a full compiler for a language like Pascal because I didn’t know where you went to buy one of those.”
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Tim Sweeney
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other / built
Fortnite
“Our aim for that is with Epic online services, and the social systems that we built for Fortnite opened up to all developers to have cross-platform social features be super easy and free for all developers.”
other / built
Unreal Engine
“Do you just forget about it when you actually go off to do work or do you write down equations on paper? It was actually not clear as an early engineering student what you do, but when I started writing the first generation Unreal Engine and I was dealing with 3DMS, I was like, wait, I know this stuff.”
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01 / prediction
I think that’s the central challenge of the next decade of game engines and AI for content creation of all sorts, because you have two very different models to the world that are emerging.
“I think that’s the central challenge of the next decade of game engines and AI for content creation of all sorts, because you have two very different models to the world that are emerging.”
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- Tim Sweeney
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / prediction
I’m like, I don’t know what the hell this is. But it turns out eigenvectors and eigenvalues were the critical breakthrough that made the Google search engine technology work and stand apart from the rest because they found if you threw all the links that exist into the web and links from and to different sites and you put them in a giant matrix and you conclude it, you found a dominant eigenvalues.
“I’m like, I don’t know what the hell this is. But it turns out eigenvectors and eigenvalues were the critical breakthrough that made the Google search engine technology work and stand apart from the rest because they found if you threw all the links that exist into the web and links from and to different sites and you put them in a giant matrix and you conclude it, you found a dominant eigenvalues.”
- Speaker
- Tim Sweeney
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast