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Comment by moyix | Hacker News Reader

This appears to be the source of the mysterious image that showed up on Reddit's /r/machinelearning the other day too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3a1ebc/ima...

It reminds me of that parrot image that was said to crash human brains, only even more intense. I certainly experienced some effect, as while looking at it and trying to figure out what exactly it was, I felt my head heating up --- probably increased blood flow.

I stopped after a few seconds of ocular recursion. A new category of warning label :)

In case anyone hasn't read the story this is referring to: "BLIT" by David Langford. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

Ah, so it's Monty Python's funniest joke in the world in visual form: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ienp4J3pW7U

There's also a few sequels:

http://ansible.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of...

And What Happened at Cambridge IV, which I can't find online.

Here's What Happened at Cambridge IV:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5d9hHvD-T7gC&lpg=PA264&o...

This last story makes the ML images even more disturbing!

Highly recommend these stories. They'd make a great black mirror episode.

Google Books previews appears to block pages randomly per user --- I don't see the entire text, unfortunately.

Wow. People thought the weirdest stuff about logic and brains back in the day.

That image was so striking and appeared to come out of nowhere. Was it some kind of marketing ploy do you think? I'm glad to have found the source anyway.

If I was part of the Google marketing machine and a developer wanted to make that nightmare image public, I'd veto them in a Mountain View minute.