now you need to go full XKCD and create capital numbers

@otesunki

3 жыл бұрын

what do you mean? capital letters exi-oh numbers uhhhh

@MorzenMebs

3 жыл бұрын

There are already upper- and lowercase letters

@SimonBuchanNz

3 жыл бұрын

Numbers are already uppercase. When they were making telegrams, Morse, teletypes, punch cards and so on, it's always uppercase letters and numbers first and lowercase later added on (this is why ASCII is roughly in the order of control codes, numbers, uppercase, lowercase, with punctuation sprinkled in between) Typographically, uppercase has primary features going from the baseline to the ascender, and no features down to the descender, while lowercase letters have primary features only up to the midline, and only minor features like stems up to the ascender and down to the descender. Numbers are all primarily from the baseline to the ascent, and thus are uppercase. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

@JarOfGibbons

3 жыл бұрын

@@SimonBuchanNz I find myself surprisingly inclined to agree. Now I'm left thinking about different ways lowercase numbers might look.

@StomperYoshi

3 жыл бұрын

I always thought of old-style numerals as "lowercase numbers".

[spoilers??] the reveal of turning this into yet another system for making chess algorithms was absolutely amazing, 10/10

@richardyi8098

3 жыл бұрын

hey it's the rhythm heaven guy

@mistycremo9301

3 жыл бұрын

hey it's the rhythm heaven guy

@nathanielsaxe3049

3 жыл бұрын

heres tree

@camwoodstock

3 жыл бұрын

oh hey it's the certified cute fraud!

@annakudriavtsev8409

3 жыл бұрын

toki! mi lukin e sitelen tawa sina. ona li pona!

Sometimes I write code that I think is clever or funny or imaginative. Then I see Tom over here making AI generated fonts battle each other in Chess.

@christianremboldt7028

Жыл бұрын

I was confused by your profile picture for a moment

you joke about toggling Caps Lock to write capital letters every time, but that's actually how my history teacher used to write capital letters, and she got pretty efficient at it

@xXx_Regulus_xXx

2 жыл бұрын

that poor caps lock key

@lollllloro

2 жыл бұрын

Well, the Caps Lock key *is* a pretty historical thing.

@Damaniel3

2 жыл бұрын

I had a roommate in college that did the same thing. Didn't matter how much you told him about the shift key, he'd still do the caps lock thing every time.

@TehMillionkill

2 жыл бұрын

I taught myself to do that on purpose 'cause pressing Caps Lock and seeing that silly little light turn on felt stress-relieving

@SpydersByte

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damaniel3 my dad still does that, its a thing for all those "hunt and peck" typers that never really learned how to type correctly or with more than 1 finger :D

"So the obvious thing to do with this... is use it to generate 26 different chess playing algorithms." _my sides_

@ddpp3492

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody ever beats me when I play my Z opening.

@Dziaji

2 жыл бұрын

@@ddpp3492 Zergling rush gambit?

"2.5 on the Bristol stool scale" is a very underrated joke. This whole presentation is fantastic. I kept laughing harder and harder.

@gromburt

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! Forgot to look up what that meant at the time. 2.5 does seem about right, too

@fetterkeks2796

3 жыл бұрын

I was too lazy to look this up at first, but your comment finally made me do it, and it is indeed an amazing joke.

@harriehausenman8623

3 жыл бұрын

That one cracked me up too.

@Dziaji

2 жыл бұрын

You ruined my search history. Who knows what adds I am going to start getting now.

@dlrss1v274

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dziaji man doesn't use adblock

Ok this whole video is hilarious but I cracked up the most at the "Mister I machine" line.

@Takyodor2

Жыл бұрын

If you hadn't already written this comment, I would have 😂

I work in software... i dream of one day being able to just make 5+ different user interfaces for some random project... frankly, this guy really is just on a whole other level.

@Benry1

Жыл бұрын

I know, when I saw this video I just saw like 6 weeks of full time work 😂 he’s unreal

@davidmella1174

Жыл бұрын

he is the definition of a "super user"

Turning it into a chess algorithm that just wants to make pretty shapes was pretty incredible.

@Kapin05

3 жыл бұрын

Just goes to show how arbitrary and re-interpretable games can be. You don't _have_ to maximise efficiency, or use out-of-the-box tactics, or even aim to win; if the true goal of Chess this entire time was just to make fun shapes, we'd never know about any of that, which is a poetic window into an alternate objective.

@Metallicity

3 жыл бұрын

"You will fail because you merely aim to win, while I aim to make beautiful shapes." - A chess agorithm that optimizes for the board looking like the letter 'C', moments before giving up both of its bishops.

@alex15095

3 жыл бұрын

would've been better if it had done a game tree traversal to find the one most likely to create a C, currently it's easy for it to make a terrible move where the opponent can immediately ruin the C

@junglefett

3 жыл бұрын

@@Metallicity lmao

@General12th

3 жыл бұрын

@@alex15095 Now I'm imagining the perfect "chess" algorithm that will only ever goad its opponent into making a C out of all the pieces, and if its opponent ruins the C, the algorithm just keeps pushing the board until it can only ever look like a C.

Next, have each chess-playing algorithm create it's own unique font. I'm sure you could figure out *some* way to do it...?

@Scouarn

3 жыл бұрын

"I'm sure you could figure out some way to do it...?" Just train another neural network to figure it out x) !

@Bootleg_Jones

3 жыл бұрын

I imagine you could make a program to first take the input letter and generate a chessboard based on it, then have each chess algorithm play against itself from that position for a set number of turns and use that new board state as the output character. Actually designing or training the algorithm to create a board that leads to interesting results for each chess algorithm would be the hard part.

@LeoStaley

3 жыл бұрын

Or create it's own chess font

@Scouarn

3 жыл бұрын

And reverse engineer a printer to let it do the computing (like they did at bell labs in order to print chess books)...

@patman326

3 жыл бұрын

@@Scouarn This is the correct solution.

"But frankly these results are fully bonkers" is a line that makes me laugh every single time I hear it.

It would be really cool to try this with Chinese characters. It would be easiest to do it with just Traditional and Simplified characters (for example, "horse" was simplified from 馬 to 马). However, all of the characters have been evolving even before that, and many can be traced all the way back to the bronze age; a few thousand can even be traced back on 3,000 year old oracle bones. And those kind of resemble stone-age pictographs. So maybe you could come up with a program that takes any doodle of an object, and puts it through thousands of years of evolution to instantly make a modern character. And then maybe see what it would look like however many years in the future.

@dymaxion3988

11 ай бұрын

Kana would be interesting too! It could be trained to “hiraganaize” and “katakanaize”, and then let loose. You could do wild stuff, like ask it for the katakana version of the letter D. The letter case data could also be used to create a lowercase を. Kanji/hanzi could also be added into the mix too, cause I’m very interested what a capital 議 would look like.

Glad to know that I would somehow manage to loose against the letter t in chess

@theodoremurdock9984

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine losing to the letter F...

@kittycatcrunchie

3 жыл бұрын

@@theodoremurdock9984 F

@humanperson2375

3 жыл бұрын

I think this is my favourite comment ever

@restcure

2 жыл бұрын

@@theodoremurdock9984 But it would give you a better respect for chess.

@tooru

2 жыл бұрын

lose*

this is how we all should do "projects". honestly, the results were a disappointment, and yet, you turned it into a lot of fun.

@willmcpherson2

3 жыл бұрын

very free form jazz

@xxportalxx.

3 жыл бұрын

I mean thats how most projects go tbh, hard to make things work, especially when you expect them to lol

@mfThump

2 жыл бұрын

its the art of presentation

@Dziaji

2 жыл бұрын

The results were exactly what is expected from such an endeavor. I wouldn't even know how to manually tweak the results to make them more correct.

@monad_tcp

2 жыл бұрын

This is science !

There needs to be a word for "Useless but Entertaining Experimental Computer Stuff" because that is one of my greatest joys in life. It's also just obscure enough to be kind of hard to find using conventional youtube search methods, and now I've found a channel that does some very excellent UbEECS and great art to boot. Absolutely earned a subscription.

I just found out you're a contributor at DFX. I've used and loved your plugins for a few years now. You're both incredibly, and intimidatingly talented! Thank you!

@tom7

3 жыл бұрын

Cool! Thanks and thanks for using those! Yes, actually we have been working on destroy fx for the first time in many years... some new releases soon :)

19:27 this is why you use the softmax function on your categorical outputs. It doesn't just constrain the outputs to be between 0 and 1, it also makes them sum to 1 (and does it in a differentiable way, so you can backprop across it). With softmaxed probabilities, maximizing the 'f' score is actually giving you the thing that is "most like an f while also being least like everything else".

@dd-nz8ry

2 жыл бұрын

F

@wave9142

Жыл бұрын

makes me think the model could perform better with some deep learning tinkering - since he says "the layer is initialized to a diagonal" it also seems that he's using a dense NN instead of a CNN, for instance

@derpnerpwerp

Жыл бұрын

@Wave I think he said it initialized to the identity matrix. Which confused me as well.. should be using random weights. And yeah a model which uses convolutions and deconvolutions for an encoder and decoder would probably be superior if he is not doing that. Although with input and output sizes of 36x36 it's probably not *that bad* of an approach for just screwing around. The model will definitely take longer to train and probably be significantly less efficient, but if you throw enough parameters at it, it would probably compensate somewhat for the bad architecture.. and that's all machine learning really is right? Why spend time using my brain when I can just upgrade my gpu?

@moritz584

Жыл бұрын

Uhh yeah right uhuhu

@grimtin10

Күн бұрын

@@derpnerpwerp the reason he initialized it to the identity matrix is because it was added during training and randomizing the weights would make all prior training useless

I'M GOING TO NEED AN UPPESTCASE VERSION OF THE LIKE BUTTON TO PROPERLY EXPRESS MY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS VIDEO.

i think i have found the most underrated channel on youtube

It Could also be called Supercaps, meaning you could have a supercaps lock button, or a Megashift button for your keyboard. But since you have lowestcase, you need to invent 2 other keys, called undershift and Lowcaps lock. I don’t know if a keyboard inventor will invent this, but it would be awesome.

@GerinoMorn

8 ай бұрын

I think it should be an analogue dial that serves as a signal strength modulator for the ML network :D

"Bus seat upholstery or a gram stain of the same" is such a good line.

This video marks the beginning of the suckerpinch cinematic universe. Upestcase and lowestcase letters are now part of the chess video. Amazing.

Pushing the saying "because we can" to the next level! These videos are so entertaining and somehow reassuring me in my fear of wasting my life...why? I don't know.

I mean this entirely positive, this video is somehow defeating my insomnia within the first 5 minutes. Organized, rhythmic, intriguing. Absolutely fantastic, I hope I fall asleep before finishing it so I can rewatch it tomorrow night. :)

your sense of humor is mesmerizing

@elnico5623

3 жыл бұрын

Mr. I machine

this was hilarious, i cracked up as soon as you started talking about turning it into a chess algorithm

@npicard

3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely lost it with the chess algorithm. It was funny before that but that’s when I couldn’t keep it together anymore.

@mmmmmmmmmmmmm

2 жыл бұрын

hi stick

@sticks_stuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@mmmmmmmmmmmmm hello

@Dziaji

2 жыл бұрын

These videos lull me into a false sense that I am actually engaging in worthwhile thought, and it is moments like the one you described that snap me back to reality and make me realize that I am fully down the rabbit hole of nonsense.

I think using mathematical double-struck letters (The ones used for sets) would be a very good standard for Uppestcase because they're easily recognizable and at the same time are well set apart.

@ictogon

Жыл бұрын

𝕐ES THAT IS A GREAT IDEA! 𝕋HEY NEED TO BE A LITTLE BIGGER THAN THESE ONES THOUGH!

One of my favourite youtube channels for impossible to explain reasons. It answers my burning questions, like "what letter is best at playing chess?"

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!? We’ve missed you!

@tom7

3 жыл бұрын

Turns out I was in this comments section the whole time!

@theunknown4834

3 жыл бұрын

@@tom7 A bit late

@ToTheGAMES

3 жыл бұрын

@@tom7 Blink thrice if you need a new chess algorithm that designs a way to get you out of here.

@harriehausenman8623

3 жыл бұрын

@@tom7 This comments sectionis golden!

babe wake up new Tom7 video edit: Holy fuck this one went so off the rails. Thank you for being you Tom

Nouns in German are called "Nomen", which is Latin for "name". Names are often capitalized in other languages as well, so Germany is *literally* calling things by their name. I always thought it was a good use of capital letters and it seems kinda nice towards 'things', which is an odd thing to say. On the other hand, they can turn nouns into adjectives, in which case they are not capitalized and is the opposite of what English does (ie. country names).

your playful attitude toward your projects is absolutely inspiring. thanks for helping me stay creative.

when you said logical conclusion, I was sort of expecting upper and lower case numbers? regardless, this is my favorite time of year and you can do no wrong. I admire everything you create and I can't wait for whatever comes next!

@tom7

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Josh! There are in fact uppercase and lowercase numbers and punctuation in the fonts, although they are not particularly captivating, alas.

@Suppenfischeintopf

3 жыл бұрын

@@tom7 How about greek letters and other scripts?

@MatthewMenze

2 жыл бұрын

@@tom7 I would like to see uppercase and lowercase games of Chess.

@HumanityAsCode

Жыл бұрын

Uppestcase Hieroglyphics

You should've included other languages upper and lowercase letters in the training data, there's no possible way that would contribute to more complexity or confusion

@JNCressey

3 жыл бұрын

It surely won't get confused with these :) - Nu (ν,Ν) looks like V and N - Eta (η,Η) looks like N and H - Gamma (γ,Γ) looks like Y and R - Upsilon (υ,Υ) looks like U and Y - Mu (μ,Μ) looks like U and M - Sigma (σ,Σ) looks like O and E

@matthewaaron2724

2 жыл бұрын

@@JNCressey I'd also like to see what it would output if he tried to make the uppercase or lowercase versions of Greek letters, accented characters, etc. while the training data still only includes the Latin alphabet. :)

17:19 "This font is based on Helvetica, which means 'of hell'" Holy crap that was awesome!

Every video you release is a gem. This is my favourite youtube channel by leaps and bounds.

Best notification of my entire year

2:14 Why do easy things in 90 minutes when you can spend weeks automating something inefficient that is also needlessly complicated? This is the stuff I live and breath for!

@otesunki

3 жыл бұрын

rule 34.♤: there is an XKCD comic for every single situation. no exceptions.

I love how you take an odd machine learning problem and then go through a bunch of odd but genius solutions you come up with. Please make more of these types of videos.

i love the use cases you give for each font

It's hard to describe how much I love this channel.

I'm glad I'm not the only one whose made the "caʒ" joke before

this is so interesting. i love seeing all the intermediate tooling you built along the way

This isn't one of those popular science videos, this is the way real science is done. I'm so glad I got this in recommended.

Every time you upload, I think to myself, "wait, who?" Then I watch, and it's great, and then go back through your old videos, and remember why I turned on notifications in the first place. Always a pleasure.

I pretty much just refresh the page all day every day just waiting for Tom to upload

@Nasiulciaa

3 жыл бұрын

click the bell! makes it so much easier to not miss

@user-sl6gn1ss8p

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nasiulciaa it took 3 hours to notify me and that's 3 hours too much

@tom7

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-sl6gn1ss8p 3 hours, what a scam! Thanks for your enthusiasm (:

@Suppenfischeintopf

3 жыл бұрын

Okay now, what is the most suckerpinch way to get notified if he uploaded a video?

@TheEvilCheesecake

3 жыл бұрын

@@Suppenfischeintopf chess algorithm

I am in awe! Please continue your important work!

This is amazing in multiple ways. Thank you for gifting us all of these wonderful things.

I feel strongly that someone has trained an AI on my taste in youtube videos and asked it to create the perfect video

I aspire to be the kind of man that could make people feel the way the end of every tom7 video has me feeling, just genuine happiness and amazement at what I just witnessed.

This is the first time ive ever seen your content and this is going straight to my favorite videos playlist. Thank you.

One of the best videos I've ever seen. Thank you so much.

The chess thing destroyed me, I actually started laughing. Well played

The inclusion of Sans in the very last frame is.... just some sublime perfection.

@tom7

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for noticing! Sometimes I wonder with the little Easter eggs..?

@StormBurnX

3 жыл бұрын

@@tom7 In a video packed so densely with plot twists, borderline useful information, and far-reaching humor references that make me scramble for google every few minutes, there's always some easter eggs that are going to be missed by some folks but noticed by others, and I can't help but sit back and wonder which are the ones that I missed :) That's half the fun after all!

Always lovely content. It may not be frequent, but I do appreciate you taking the time to share your projects with us.

This guy is insane. You put way too much effort into this, and I love it!

At some point, language models will be capable of generating research like this. Thrilling and scary.

@erifetim

3 жыл бұрын

When scientists did it because they could, but didn’t stop to consider if they should

@DamianReloaded

3 жыл бұрын

@@erifetim Everything has two edges. Like knives. Maybe the cure for cancer will also be used to GIVE cancer. It's not a problem with science or scientists. It's a problem with human nature.

As always, this was glorious, and the ending was just...so good. I'm glad to see you back making things, and I'm very excited to see what madness you do next!

@tom7

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Thanks! :)

This is brilliant. I laughed my ass off and learned some pretty cool stuff while i was in awe by both the simplicity and complexity of your presentation. Cudos

I wonder how well this model would have turned up had it been trained to Upper/Lower cases of other bicameral writting systems (Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, some variations of Georgian, etc). Some languages that use latin script adopt special characters that themselves have capital forms, that could also be used for the training.

@DiggyPT

Жыл бұрын

cyrrilic would be really uninteresting tho

I love the way your brain works.

Subscribed as soon as I finished the video, I hope there will be another before 2023 though, youtube seriously needs more creators like you

This was a great video. I unironically absolutely loved it. Good job! 👍🏽

You've kind of reverse engineered the OCR from the DS game, Brain Age. The tool assisted speedrun of Brain Age breaks their OCR system by just drawing arbitrary dots to trigger a specific letter recognition. i love this video lol

@canhedotricks6078

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing.

@Dziaji

2 жыл бұрын

I think I've seen that speedrun. Was that in AGDQ?

@fluxmasterfix

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't use dots back when I used it, but short strokes. After a while you could find these input shortcuts, and get very good times in Math.

This is the most bonkers, wonderful project I’ve ever seen. I’m not mad OR disappointed.

Thank you for yet another wonderful adventure!

I'm in love with your writing and joke delivery

This is exactly what I needed right now. Thank you.

dude it's like midnight and im watching this random dude make fonts and I LOVE IT your humour is great, also cheers

dude, your channel is severely underappreciated

Every time Tom releases a new video I'm amazed how much time he spends trying to solve seemingly useless problems and how bad yet entertaining the results are (especially at chess). Fantastic job, as always!

yessss i was just thinking about how much i wanted a new tom 7 video

This entire video I've been seeing the potential of using these fonts in games. So I'm going to do it. I actually LOVE perfect hallucination.

Wow, this is the first time in a long time KZread has recommended me actual enjoyable quality content.

Tom7: 'We can also draw some weird shapes...' Greek Eta: 'Am I a joke to you?"

Mr I machine gave me a good chuckle :)

I think this is the best KZread video I've ever seen

This has got to be the biggest brain video I've watched in a very long time. So, so many underrated jokes and puns. Keep up the good work!

3 and a half minutes in and I’m hooked.

TOM KNOWS HOW TO HAVE FUN!!!

Oh my algorithm, what a ride! I absolutely love your approach to solving problems of your own making 😊

This channel is so underrated. I'm so happy to be coming across it now. I can't belive he doesn't have over 1 million subs already

Your videos are the primary reason I look forward to April Fools every year (with the understanding there might not be one).

0:39 do you.... not know... about the shift key??

i have no idea how i stumbled upon this vid but omg i love it it just keeps taking one turn after another oh my gosh "mr i"

I like how the video simply doesn't stop. It just keeps going

I must say, I really love the way you make things. Keep it up!

@elemenopi9239

3 жыл бұрын

hi tux

@tux1468

3 жыл бұрын

@@elemenopi9239 bro go away

It didn't get the prettiest results, but I still admire how closely you follow your actual train of thought with a spirit of experimentation. It's kinda like a Ben Levin video where you explore the topic more than demonstrate it, which is a cool thing!

Not even a little disappointed. This channel is the computer science comedy I've been looking for my whole life :) thanks for doing this things. Someone had to!

I swear your videos are like a fever dream and I love it

Yo I’ve literally thought about this but I never thought any mad lad would actually make it!

just rewatched your chess video the other day and was hoping for another april fools upload. thank you!

These releases are more anticipated than anything coming from Netflix, Hulu, Hollywood etc. Keep up the interesting but not pragmatic work!

I was gonna sub for this beautiful masterpiece but then realized I already was subbed. Keep doing you man this is phenomenal.

@tom7

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, be careful to only click the subscribe button an odd number of times!

Fun project and great video!

love ur videos fellow tom

Gotta respect this man's dedication. Instead of just using convolutions he invents an entire new errorfuntion for his fonts.

Your videos are so delightfully funny and uselessly wonderful.

17:43 Me trying to read a sentence in Japanese that has words I don't know yet

At about 21:00 I was literally screaming "WHY? why would you do it?" at the monitor. Amazing video!

@pafnutiytheartist

3 жыл бұрын

And then you just do 3d models out of it.... for fun. As a person who dabbled in things like that, your programming skills are rally impressive.