Tom7's Machine Learning Search for Extreme Letterforms

suckerpinch · Comedy · YouTube title: Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]

Why it's here

Tom7 is an HN favorite, and this video is praised as hilarious, educational silly ML that keeps getting better.

What it covers

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.