DOOMFORMER
AI
neural network
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How HN took it
5 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 4 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Artistic and novel concept
From 3 comments
As a fellow doom-weird-places-fitter, this is art. Congratulations :)
kuberwastaken on HNThis is absolutely incredible. I feel like this could help visualize a neural network, but you have to know a lot about DOOM to really understand it.
slowin on HNThis is so trippy, very cool, love it I made a classifier play doom[0]. But you turned the whole network into Doom! Amazing 0: https://playground.jeffyclassify.com/#doom
nico on HN
Impressive and fun to read about
From 2 comments
amazing
kenferry on HNWow!
kamisori-daijin on HN
Objections
Documentation and writing look AI-generated and are hard to read
From 3 comments
Oh, it's AI word-vomit.
fwip on HNThere’s no use in writing docs at all if they contain near-zero density of information that can actually be deciphered. LLM word salad is not documentation, it’s only useful if…
Sharlin on HNWas there even a human involved at all, or was this a "no mistakes" prompt outcome? Nothing on this page looks made by a human, its _all_ generated, not a tiny bit of it, _all_…
mg794613 on HN
Heavy use of LLMs makes the project feel less impressive
From 2 comments
I wonder what the implementation actually adds over the idea itself. At least part of the appeal of these kinds of projects used to be "wow, someone was actually…
frankling_ on HNMore AI slop. No thank you.
tnms on HN
Requests
Make it compatible with Boom engine rather than ZDoom
From 1 comment
I think it might be more interesting to target Boom/Boom-compatible, if possible, rather than ZDoom. ZDoom already has so many advanced features, you could implement the entire…
mattmcal on HN
Help scaling up the project
From 1 comment
Questions
What does the schedule and opt level in the benchmark mean
From 1 comment
Awesome >a handwritten digit takes 163 seconds of real-time DOOM in one map at the default schedule and 8 seconds at --opt 3. What does this refer to? What does schedule mean…
andai on HN
Was a human involved in building this
From 1 comment
Was there even a human involved at all, or was this a "no mistakes" prompt outcome? Nothing on this page looks made by a human, its _all_ generated, not a tiny bit of it, _all_…
mg794613 on HN
Alternatives named
Running DOOM on unusual hardware projects
From 1 comment
I think that this is a fair point, for the general plethora of hobby projects present as well! However, I'd like to think I put a lot of effort into this, and this also isn't my…
falperc on HN
Neural network classifier playing DOOM
From 1 comment
This is so trippy, very cool, love it I made a classifier play doom[0]. But you turned the whole network into Doom! Amazing 0: https://playground.jeffyclassify.com/#doom
nico on HN