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Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]

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5 HN users recommended this comedy video in 4 different months between 2021 and 2026.

2007–2026
3 strong recommendations 2 recommendations 2 citations HackerTube score 5.5

Tom7 is an HN favorite, and this video is praised as hilarious, educational silly ML that keeps getting better.

Tom Scott-style absurdist research by tom7 for SIGBOVIK 2021, using machine learning to discover letterforms that are 'uppercaser' than uppercase A and lowercaser than lowercase. It is a comedic, technically inventive deep dive with fonts and a paper.

Pull quote: “it just keeps getting better and better as the video progresses. I laughed so hard.” (HN, 2023)

Also tagged: silly machine learning research, tom7, sigbovik, fonts, neural networks, humor

What Hacker News said

7 labeled comments from the HN archive; up to 20 are kept per video, favoring different commenters. Each one links back to the original thread.

Strongly recommends devenvdev June 2022 under The Floppotron 3.0
Entertaining and educational silly ML project
Came here to post this ↑ Tom7's Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [1] is one of the most entertaining (and educational) experiences I had lately [1] [this video]
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Strongly recommends loxias January 2023 under Tetris Is Capable of Universal Computation
Hilarious video that keeps getting better
[this video] (Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]) Is pure gold. I don't wanna spoil it, it just keeps getting better and better as the video progresses. I laughed so hard. If by some freak chance I ever become wealthy, I want to sponsor this sort of research.
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Strongly recommends Der_Einzige March 2024 under AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models
Favorite YouTuber generating new letterforms
I want to observe that one of my favorite youtubers did exactly this with making the "uppest case" and "lowest case" letters. [this video] I love this guy so much and wish he made far more videos.
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Recommends ashertrockman April 2021 under Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters
Author's video on the SIGBOVIK uppercase letters paper
SIGBOVIK is proud to have published this groundbreaking work in its 2021 proceedings, which were released today. Also, check out the author's video: [this video] For more non-serious research that is often executed seriously, see: [link]
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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it lachlan_gray October 2023 under Hey, Computer, Make Me a Font
Related font generation video with uppestcase letters
I found a few months ago that the gpt-4 code interpreter is capable of converting a black and white png of a glyph to an svg [link] It would be cool to combine a script like the one gpt-4 gave me with an image generation model to generate fonts. The approach from this blog post is way more interesting though. On a separate note it reminds me of this suckerpinch video :) maybe we can finally get uppestcase and lowestcase fonts [this video]
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