> Although logic connectivity is not layout-dependent in the current prototype, we envision a future where physical proximity directly influences or determines logical connections. In this ultimate view, the circuit behaves like a digital organism whose physical form and logical connections evolve together under local structural constraints.
Seems like the README is heavily vibed, as it seems to not even understand what the repo does:
> Local AI & LLM Ready: By reducing complex pixel streams into structured logical strings, ASCILINE acts as a perfect bridge for AI. Instead of feeding heavy computer vision models, lightweight LLMs can process semantic video summaries.
In what way is this semantic/structured?
> Bypassing Browser Constraints: Modern browsers aggressively throttle autoplay videos, and ad-blockers restrict traditional media frames. To the browser, ASCILINE is simply "JavaScript updating a canvas"—completely invisible to media restrictions.
So... just render the video to a canvas? What does ASCII have to do with it
> LLMs are good at predicting words, since each word in the id is ~1 BPE token. But uuids are random hex characters, this is where LLMs struggle to output the right ids.
If true then that indeed seems like an improvement, I think I just need measurements of actual hallucinations. Calling hex random but a selection of words not seems humanly biased? If anything, being random is good because it's saying there's no semantic influence. I'd think that words are more likely to be hallucinated as certain words only follow certain contexts, which is less true for numbers
It's monetisation. If they put a paywall on the video, your browser has the functionality to play the video but you're forced to pay to use that functionality.
Also wrt phone, it's different because I paid for the phone. But also I'd just use a different camera app?
While I'm not pro YouTube, I think it's fine for companies to decide how to monetise their product, including things which were originally free. If you don't like free services, stop using them