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Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters  [advances in derp learning]

Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]

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5 HN recommenders · discussed 2021–2026
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About this video

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.

Why it appears in the archive

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

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From the Hacker News discussion

devenvdev · 2022-06 · strong rec

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] [VIDEO]

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loxias · 2023-01 · strong rec

[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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Der_Einzige · 2024-03 · strong rec

I want to observe that one of my favorite youtubers did exactly this with making the "uppest case" and "lowest case" letters. [VIDEO] I love this guy so much and wish he made far more videos.

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ashertrockman · 2021-04 · rec

SIGBOVIK is proud to have published this groundbreaking work in its 2021 proceedings, which were released today. Also, check out the author's video: [VIDEO] For more non-serious research that is often executed seriously, see: [LINK]

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gspr · 2021-04 · rec

I assume you're very familiar with Tom7, and in particular his SIGBOVIK submissions, but just in case: Tom7! (Good starting point for anyone who's not: [VIDEO] )

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lachlan_gray · 2023-10 · reference

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 [VIDEO]

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shit_game · 2026-02 · reference

Lots of the AIisms with letters remind me of tom7's SIGBOVIC video Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning] [VIDEO]

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