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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@Der_Einzige2024 · in “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.
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@loxias2023 · in “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.
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@devenvdev2022 · in “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
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@zeofig2024 · in “Generating the Alphabet”
Reminds me of this great video ▶ this video
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@ansipunk2022 · in “Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@codetrotter2021 · in “Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters, advances in derp learning (SIGBOVIK 2021)”
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@gspr2021 · in “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 )
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@ashertrockman2021 · in “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
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@Audiophilip2021 · in “Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters (advances in derp learning) [video]”
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@shit_game2026 · in “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
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@lachlan_gray2023 · in “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
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@AnthonBerg2021 · in “MagicaCSG: A lightweight signed distance field editor and renderer”
It’s actually here!: ▶ this video Paper: link Source code – and font downloads!: link