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Why can the author only write in all lowercase?
by hovering_nox 2y ago
Why can the author only write in all lowercase?
- ronsor 2y agoSam Altman does it too
- Pr0ject217 2y agoIt's the cool thing to do now...
- tredre3 2y agoAt least they use punctuation. We've recently had a project on HN where the author used only lower cases and no punctuation because they equated it to being chained by the system.
- groovy2shoes 2y agorip cormac mccarthy
- _giorgio_ 2y agoIt's your problem only.
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- programjames 2y agoThe fight against capitalism spares no letter.
- baobabKoodaa 2y agodo you wanna be cool or not?
- teaearlgraycold 2y agoToo poor to fix their shift key
- InfiniteVortex 2y agothis is the answer lol
- sva_ 2y agoYou got two of them
- Retr0id 2y agobecause it annoys HN commenters
- renegade-otter 2y agoBecause Sam Altman does it and he is rich, so...
- bossyTeacher 2y agoWhere? His blog looks normal
- renegade-otter 2y agoJust look at his Twitter: https://x.com/sama https://x.com/sama And no, Twitter is no excuse to type like an illiterate teenager. And I will bet you someone edits his blogs to not look like that.
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- fjdjshsh 2y ago"illiterate" Do you think using capitals at the beginning of a sentence aids comprehension? I view punctuation and spelling rules as a way to maximize comprehension (akin to having a linting standard). In non formal writing, I don't see any harm in avoiding capitalization (at least it doesn't seem to me to help understanding / reading speed, etc at all).
- renegade-otter 2y agoIt's like people typing "K" instead of "OK". It's disrespectful to the reader, suggesting that the reader is not important enough to warrant typing an extra letter. One would expect Altman to know how to use the SHIFT key when running a massive business, but, hey - once you achieve escape velocity from society, you don't have to live by its norms or grammar rules. I can assure you that it would cost most people people here a promotion or a raise if they did this at work.
- skriticos2 2y agoSeeing Anya (the girl pointing at pictures), I'd guess the author is partial to Japanese culture. As their writing system does not have a concept of upper/lower case, he might just have determined that they are superfluous. Or he is simply an eccentric. Though I guess this is one of the things that some folks will not care and others getting hung up mightily. I personally don't really mind that bit of capitalization that English does. German is much worse.
- hovering_nox 2y ago>I personally don't really mind that bit of capitalization that English does. German is much worse. You misspelled 'better'.
- Kuinox 2y agoTheir twitter indicate Amsterdam, I just think they are an anime fan. And they are not alone. https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1792261360430293176 https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1792261360430293176
- golergka 2y agod u xpct hbrw spkr twrt nnglsh lk ths?
- programjames 2y agoI think you mispelled that slightly: > d' 'ou 'xp'ct h'br'w sp''k'rs t' wr't' 'n 'ngl'sh l'k' th's?
- xdennis 2y agoNot quite the same. Capitalization doesn't add much to languages written with the Latin alphabet. THE ROMANS ONLY VVROTE VVITH CAPITAL LETTERS. But the Greeks added vowels to the alphabet because Indo-European languages rely a lot on vowels (as opposed to Semitic languages which are easy to understand without vowels).
- saintradon 2y agoIt's to drive engagement by getting people to comment on it.
- nekochanwork 2y agoCreative writing + Hyperfocused autistic obsession = The Anime Guide to Neural Networks and Large Language Models.
- TacticalCoder 2y agoAnd why can't the author pass its text into a LLM and simply ask: "plz fix frist word of each paragraf by using an uppercase letter k txh bye". A just question.
- adamrezich 2y ago2024 is the year that most of us are collectively growing out of the early social media era all-lowercase thing, but everyone hasn't gotten the memo yet.
- spencerchubb 2y agoso more people comment on the hn post and it will rank higher in the algo such as your comment and my comment!
- bdangubic 2y agoshift key busted
- efilife 2y agoThis comment is unsubstantial and provides no value. Why do you care about this?
- jpamata 2y agoAuthor is probably young, that's how gen-z are these days, if they dont have autocorrect on, the whole text will be in lowercase. Also it looks more casual and authentic, less LLM generated
- jongorer 2y agothe nitpicking in this thread is incredible lmao
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- cocochanel 2y agoHe probably thinks it's cool. Common on Twitter these days.
- kelahcim 2y agothis comment made me go back to the project page. i haven't even noticed that fact while reading it for the first time. strange.