Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]
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Tom Murphy VII (suckerpinch) presents his SIGBOVIK 2021 research on inventing new letterforms past upper and lowercase, using machine learning to generate 'uppestcase' and 'lowestcase' letters. It is a comic but surprisingly thorough exploration of how letters can be represented and extrapolated.
HN people call it pure gold, among the most entertaining and educational things on letterforms and machine learning.
“is one of the most entertaining (and educational) experiences I had lately”
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