Comment by refulgentis

Comment by refulgentis a day ago

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You generated pretty much ~all of this with Claude (c.f. ASCII diagrams with emojis on each line to "prove" various not-even-wrong claims it was told to justify), and the work is mediocre enough that it's worth full-throatedly criticizing both the work quality and that you inflicted this upon the world.

Look how many confused comments there are due to the page claiming features you don't have, don't understand, and don't make sense on their own terms (what's an "attention map"? with maximum charity, if we had some sort of attention-as-in-LLM-like structure precached, how would it apply beyond one model? how big would the image be? is it possible to fit that in the 2 bits we claim to fit in every 4 bytes)

I don't want for you to take it personally, at all, but I never, ever, want to see something like this on the front page again.

You've reinvented EXIF and JPEG metadata, in the voice of a diligent teenager desiring to create something meaningful, but with 0 understanding of the computing layers, 4 hours with Wikipedia, and 0 intellectual humility - though, with youth, born not from obstinance, but naiveté.

Some warning signs you should have taken heed of:

- Metadata is universally desirable, yet, somehow unexplored until now?

- Your setup instructions use UNIX commands up until they require running a Windows batch file

- The example of hiding data hides it in 2 bits in a channel then "demonstrates" this is visually lossless because its hidden in 1 bit across 2 channels (it isn't, because if it was, how would we determine which 2 of the channels?) ("visually lossless" confuses "lossless", a technical term meaning no information was lost with a weaker claim of being lossy-but-not-detectably-so)

I'll leave it here, I think you have the idea and there's a difference between being firm and honest, and being cruel, and length will dictate a lot of that to a casual observer.

gruez a day ago

>You generated pretty much ~all of this with Claude

>- Your setup instructions use UNIX commands up until they require running a Windows batch file

Is your comment AI generated? The only setup instructions prior to the windows commands are "git", "cd", and "pip". "cd" exists on both windows and unix. The other commands might not be available by default on windows, but they're not exactly "UNIX" commands either. The other code blocks mostly seem to be assuming windows (eg. "start" or "copy" command), so I don't see any contradictions here.

  • refulgentis a day ago

    > Is your comment AI generated?

    Are you asking this earnestly, or, is it meant to communicate something else? If so, what? :)

    Genuinely, the most interesting part of the comment to me, in that it is does not have 0 meaning, and rings of some form of frustration, yet the rest of your comment stays focused on technical knowledge, and AFAIK you are not the author (who I'd expect would be at least temporarily angry at my contribution)

    • gruez a day ago

      >Are you asking this earnestly, or, is it meant to communicate something else? If so, what? :)

      If you're going to accuse some else of technical inconsistencies, maybe you should make sure your critiques are free of technical inconsistencies as well. You know, "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" and all that.

      • refulgentis a day ago

        There's a false equivalence there, between being not-even-wrong and "you have a bunch of UNIX commands followed by a Windows batch file execution."

        Note we both agree on that, you seem to assume I claimed something else, like, cd doesn't exist on windows.

        Let's say I instead said "this doesn't work on Windows"

        I spent probably...8 hours? on Windows this week doing dev, and I'm about 70% sure all of those commands will work on Windows, with dev mode switched on, with WSL on, prereqs installed...

        Let's steelman this to the max: any possible prerequisite that could block it, doesn't mean its actually blocked. Dev mode on, WSL, prerequisites wrestled with and installed, can download source and edit then compile, but can only patch build errors, not add new functionality.

        Are you 100% sure those commands will work?

        (separately, you misunderstand the quote re: glass houses. It would apply if I had used AI to write not-even-wrong claims and then submitted to HN. This misunderstanding leads to a conclusion that it is impermissible to comment on the correctness of anything if you may be incorrect, which we can both recognize leads to absurdities that would lead to 0 communication ever.)

kuberwastaken a day ago

> You generated pretty much ~all of this with Claude Haha no, it was a reworked version of an older image format I found that I modified to fit this, yes, there was AI assisted coding involved in the process but it wasn't a "make me an image format that does x"

>what's an "attention map"? with maximum charity, if we had some sort of attention-as-in-LLM-like structure precached, how would it apply beyond one model? By “attention map” I meant a visual representation of where a model can focuses its “attention” when analyzing an image — basically, a heatmap highlighting important regions that influence the model’s output. It isn't something that is very useful now but might be.

> You reinvented EXIF/JPEG metadata with naivete Partly true (at least for now) the core idea was to experiment with alternative metadata or feature embedding, not to replace well-established standards. It's not where I NEED it to be yet but as far as metadata usecases go, it's pretty cool.

> Your setup instructions use UNIX commands up until they require running a Windows batch file It's easier to set windows up to directly open other file formats, it's just a thing (and I'm on windows - so)