[HN Gopher] Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)
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Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)
Author : cubefox
Score : 201 points
Date : 2024-06-07 13:01 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| cpach wrote:
| See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605970
| pimlottc wrote:
| Nothing on this page gives me any idea of what this video is
| about.
| horacemorace wrote:
| You are then in the correct headspace to experience it.
| quasimodem wrote:
| You have taken the first step towards understanding Tom7.
| brokensegue wrote:
| It's about many things
| recursive wrote:
| Don't feel bad. It's not for everyone.
| nimih wrote:
| The video explains the main idea(s) behind the two papers which
| are linked at the top of the page.
| heleninboodler wrote:
| You're getting a lot of glib answers, but in all seriousness,
| this is one of the amazing things about tom7 videos. It
| sometimes starts by appearing to be about nonsense or
| triviality, but as he weaves all these weird stories, they
| start to come together into observations that are absolutely
| _brilliant_ and funny and he writes code to demonstrate what he
| 's saying. I highly recommend "Harder Drive: Hard drives we
| didn't want or need" as an intro to his style, his humor, and
| the absurd lengths he will go to in order to prove a point.
| It's in three chapters and the middle chapter still blows my
| mind.
| enqk wrote:
| Truly great works cannot be summarized
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Don't worry, by the end he has fully justified all of the
| diversions.
| btown wrote:
| A truly, consistently end-to-end approach!
| mcpar-land wrote:
| skip to 7:22, he explains what the video is about.
| ipsum2 wrote:
| It's about aligning text to fit a specific length using
| language models.
| peterfirefly wrote:
| You didn't see the point?
| tromp wrote:
| Worth watching for the great punchline at the end alone...
| JadeNB wrote:
| Do I win anything for noting, in a video about hyper-detail
| orientation, that, when the text on screen says "Is this the most
| beautiful ____", the voice-over says "This is the most beautiful
| ____"?
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc&t=9m07s
|
| (I'm not sure if it's also an error, or part of the joke, or if
| it just parses in a way that I can't accomplish on my own, that
| the text before the video reads "Way three (recommended) is to
| sit back and bathe in the 4k, 60Hz flashing lights that are
| Badness 0 (Apostrophe's version) is the newest installment in the
| Main Sequence:".)
| idle_zealot wrote:
| There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem
| intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to
| me was the use of backslashes in his website URL.
| JadeNB wrote:
| > There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem
| intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out
| to me was the use of backslashes in his website URL.
|
| Yeah, some of those (like the backslashes) were clearly
| intentional. It didn't look to me like the "Is this" / "This
| is" was, but I guess anything can be put down to being part
| of the joke.
| TapamN wrote:
| I read the Epsom's Version PDF before the video was released,
| and the typesetting was absolutely terrible.
|
| https://imgur.com/a/wjK5br5
|
| After the opening on how he's bothered by minor errors, I
| thought it had to be part of a joke, and it was a setup for a
| punchline to be revealed later in the paper. But eventually I
| realized, no, the PDF must not being displayed the way it was
| intended. I was reading it in Evince at first, but muPDF gave
| much better output.
| JadeNB wrote:
| He does mention in the text above the video:
|
| > Be warned that due to "BUG", these seem only to display
| properly in Chrome. I am working on fixing "BUG" once I get
| some sleep; I have some leads due to helpful people on the
| blog.
| layer8 wrote:
| The paper has the fifth occurrence of "Wikipedia" in lower
| case, which greatly irritated me in the Knuth version.
| plasticbugs wrote:
| Tom7 is my favorite content creator. Each of his projects feels
| like a ~master's thesis~ video dissertation. If you are not
| familiar with his work, please take some time to watch his other
| videos. They are all outstanding so I won't recommend any
| specific one.
|
| Tom7, if you're out there (here), thank you for the free
| education and entertainment. You are an inspiration!
| progbits wrote:
| Wishes do come true
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40063261
| cenazoic wrote:
| (Read the paper, didn't watch the video)
|
| I am a 54-year old undergraduate in computer science. I don't
| know from Curry-Howard (or Hurry-Coward), but this paper made me
| giggle with delight and glee. (Knuth invokes this delight in me
| as well, although I don't understand most of his writings, yet.)
|
| If nothing else, it's inspired me to implement half-ass easter-
| egg achievement systems in any future 'serious' software I write.
| WJW wrote:
| That also struck me as a great way to make software more
| whimsical. Imagine if you randomly got an "Achievement
| unlocked!" message if you churn through more than 10 GB of data
| in a single invocation of `grep` for the first time or
| something. So many possibilities!
| ketralnis wrote:
| For something user facing sure but trying to debug why
| _sometimes_ my grep job hangs with large data dumps because
| my popen3 didn't know to consume from stderr because of your
| whimsicle message would be pretty rage inducing
| shadowgovt wrote:
| Why isn't your shell consuming stderr? Errors happen.
| ketralnis wrote:
| If the UI is my shell then it is. If it's part of a
| larger script being executed by python embedded in a cron
| job wrapped in a burrito, it may not be
| shadowgovt wrote:
| Wrappers are still responsible for proxying or handling
| errors and wrappers that fail to do so are wrapping
| poorly.
| timgilbert wrote:
| Don't bring monads into this
| umvi wrote:
| This guy is great. My favorite of his videos is the one where he
| has an NES playing SNES games -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0&t=142s
| elbasti wrote:
| Every Tom7 video is a work of humbling genius that--just by
| virtue of knowing about them--makes me feel like I'm in some sort
| of secret club of people smarter than me.
| stavros wrote:
| Wait, what's wrong with Wordle's hard mode?
| postoplust wrote:
| > Hard Mode: Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent
| guesses
|
| As implemented, hard mode doesn't count gray letters (letters
| nowhere in the solution) as hints. You're allowed to reuse gray
| letters, but true hard mode should prevent that.
| stavros wrote:
| Oh hmm, I've never thought of gray letters as hints, more
| like the absence of hints.
| a_dabbler wrote:
| In his example he knows 3 of the colours as indicated by yellow
| but he also knows that those letters are not in those positions
| and hard mode let's him make bad guesses using those letters in
| the same positions again when it shouldnt
| stavros wrote:
| But hard mode only says the guesses must be used, not that
| they mustn't be used in the same spots.
| gweinberg wrote:
| My understanding is in hard mode, you are not allowed to
| make a guess that you know is not the right answer. So you
| cannot use a letter in a spot where you know that letter
| does not belong.
| stavros wrote:
| Hm, yeah, you're right, that makes the most sense.
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