games
8 statements across 8 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Stuart Butterfield · across every show →
Everything said about games, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Butterfield: Game development is ideal practice for general software creation
“Games are harder to build. I mean, it's actually in some ways a serious answer that it's good practice for any other kind of software you might want to make for two reasons. One is because technically they're pretty challenging but probably more importantly, t…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Dixon: VR isn't just gaming, but virtual time travel and teleportation
“And so I think games are sort of that version of VR where everyone thinks, Is games, and we'll kind of look back and laugh. I mean, I think it's basically, my view, I mean, this is the, obviously, optimistic view, is that it's basically anything where you'd wa…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Dixon: Consumer gaming demand for GPUs catalyzed modern deep learning
“Games have driven GPUs. So like, just like the, that market is one where the gamers have been endlessly hungry for more polygons, and that created this kind of, you know, Nvidia and this whole industry around it. Which then had these interesting, you know, the…”
Jan 2, 2019
Hennessy: Early RISC commercial adoption was driven by gaming and networking
“Yes, that was one of the earliest breakthroughs for the RISC people in the embedded space were games, high-end network switches, places where there was really high-end color printers, where there was really a fair amount of performance demand, but also conside…”
Jan 13, 2020 positive
Jan 25, 2023 positive