FWIW, the inverse square root function wasn't popularized by Carmack. Most people shared it because they were amused by the confused comments surrounding it, and how it demonstrated an extremely vertical slice of optimization.
Treating anyone like a rockstar is a bad idea, but Carmacks and Wozniaks deserve the praise more than the Zuckerbergs and Jobs' out there.
Treating anyone like a rockstar is a bad idea, but Carmacks and Wozniaks deserve the praise more than the Zuckerbergs and Jobs' out there.