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Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]

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Machine learning & deep learningGraphic design & typographySatire & parody

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 3 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “one of the most entertaining (and educational) experiences I had lately”

    Entertaining and educational silly ML project

    devenvdev, 2022-06 · Strong recommendation · in “The Floppotron 3.0”

  2. “it just keeps getting better and better as the video progresses. I laughed so hard.”

    Hilarious video that keeps getting better

    loxias, 2023-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Tetris Is Capable of Universal Computation”

  3. “I love this guy so much and wish he made far more videos.”

    Favorite YouTuber generating new letterforms

    Der_Einzige, 2024-03 · Strong recommendation · in “AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models”

  4. “Also, check out the author”

    Author's video on the SIGBOVIK uppercase letters paper

    ashertrockman, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters”

  5. “his SIGBOVIK submissions”

    Good starting point for Tom7's silly research

    gspr, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: tom7, sigbovik, fonts, neural networks, humor

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