Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]
suckerpinch5 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2021-2026
477K views · 5 years ago · comedy · evergreen
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.
Tom7 is an HN favorite, and this video is praised as hilarious, educational silly ML that keeps getting better.
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7 comments from Hacker News
Lots of the AIisms with letters remind me of tom7's SIGBOVIC video Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning] ▶ this video
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.
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
▶ 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.
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
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: ▶ this video )
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