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Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]
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 HN readers recommended it
Tom7 is an HN favorite, and this video is praised as hilarious, educational silly ML that keeps getting better.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- suckerpinch
- Topic
- silly machine learning research
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2026
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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]
devenvdev on Hacker News · 2022-06
In The Floppotron 3.0[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 …
loxias on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Tetris Is Capable of Universal ComputationI 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.
Der_Einzige on Hacker News · 2024-03
In AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models
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