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Tom7 is a somewhat well-known mad computer scientist who specializes in technically ambitious projects of limited utility. In this latest escapade, he takes in
by tel 2y ago
Tom7 is a somewhat well-known mad computer scientist who specializes in technically ambitious projects of limited utility.
In this latest escapade, he takes inspiration from Knuth's line-packing algorithm used in typesetting beautiful print documents using the TeX typesetting system and intensifies it by training a large language model to automatically rephrase the input text until it is worded to minimize the "badness" of the page layout. Thus, "Badness 0".
It's that but also much more ambitious, impressive, and stupid.
The "three ways" are that you can see his technical writeup in its original words with layout using Knuth's algorithm in TeX, a variant of that article using his own layout engine (and thus slight variations on the wording that, plausibly, maintain the meaning and semantics), and then a video version.