Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]
Why Hacker News recommends it
Tom7 is an HN favorite, and this video is praised as hilarious, educational silly ML that keeps getting better.
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.
Recommended by 5 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2021 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec devenvdev · 2022-06 · on “The Floppotron 3.0”
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] [this video]
Strong rec loxias · 2023-01 · on “Tetris Is Capable of Universal Computation”
[this 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.
Strong rec Der_Einzige · 2024-03 · on “AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models”
I want to observe that one of my favorite youtubers did exactly this with making the "uppest case" and "lowest case" letters. [this video] I love this guy so much and wish he made far more videos.
Recommends ashertrockman · 2021-04 · on “Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters”
SIGBOVIK is proud to have published this groundbreaking work in its 2021 proceedings, which were released today. Also, check out the author's video: [this video] For more non-serious research that is often executed seriously, see: [LINK]
Recommends gspr · 2021-04 · on “std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs”
I assume you're very familiar with Tom7, and in particular his SIGBOVIK submissions, but just in case: Tom7! (Good starting point for anyone who's not: [this video] )
Cites lachlan_gray · 2023-10 · on “Hey, Computer, Make Me a Font”
I found a few months ago that the gpt-4 code interpreter is capable of converting a black and white png of a glyph to an svg [LINK] It would be cool to combine a script like the one gpt-4 gave me with an image generation model to generate fonts. The approach from this blog post is way more interesting though. On a separate note it reminds me of this suckerpinch video :) maybe we can finally get uppestcase and lowestcase fonts [this video]
Cites shit_game · 2026-02 · on “15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram”
Lots of the AIisms with letters remind me of tom7's SIGBOVIC video Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning] [this video]