Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)
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Tom 7's pilot episode of a series that plays with type systems and absurd programming, presented as a parody of the GPL v3 license. It mixes a typesetting experiment with a long, story-driven intro on the origin of TeX. Source code and papers are linked from the author's site.
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7 comments from Hacker News
You might enjoy this video: ▶ this video The connection to knuth is tangential to the actual video subject, but it does contrast knuth to LLMs as a framing device
If you want more of this: ▶ this video . You can skip to 7:45 if the long intro bores you, but it's worth listening to it.
That said, if Tom7 wasn’t meticulous about typesetting all his results, we would never have been blessed with ▶ this video
and for anyone in the TeX User Group there is this fun experiment in Typesetting which starts off with the amazing TeX origin story ▶ this video
Do I win anything for noting, in a video about hyper-detail orientation, that, when the text on screen says "Is this the most beautiful ____", the voice-over says "This is the most beautiful ____"? ▶ this video (I'm not sure if it's also an error, or part of the joke, or if it just parses in a way that I can't accomplish on my own, that the text before the video reads "Way three (recommended) is to sit back and bathe in the 4k, 60Hz flashing lights that are Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version) is the newest installment in the Main Sequence:".)
This should not have "(2007)" in the title; 2007 is the date of the GPL v3, which this is a 2024 mimicry of (as explained in ▶ this video ).
This was made by Tom7, who has many amazing videos about doing ridiculous things with programming on YouTube. The talk on this work is here: ▶ this video