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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

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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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
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  • [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
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  • 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.

    Der_Einzige on Hacker News · 2024-03
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