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Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]

suckerpinch · 477K views · 2021-04-01 · 24:13

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 5 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2021–2026

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Der_Einzige · 2024-03 · Strong recommendation

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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loxias · 2023-01 · Strong recommendation

[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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devenvdev · 2022-06 · Strong recommendation

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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