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Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

27 pointsby 1d agoampdot.mesh.host
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13h agoHN ↗

The kerning is absolutely awful in Safari. Looks fine in Chrome though...

12h agoHN ↗

This page reliably hangs Firefox 155 at 100% CPU for me.

9h agoHN ↗

I did most of my testing in Firefox 156 and it's fine for me

16m agoHN ↗

smooth as butter on 152 in windows 10, as long as we're all reporting

11h agoHN ↗

Haha this did help me generate empathy for the assistant. Neat idea.

6h agoHN ↗

I wonder how this would look in Chinese Mandarin.

1h agoHN ↗

Completely the same as regular text, except punctuations are centered instead of staying at the bottom of the line. CJK Han likely encodes tokens to character one on one. Which brings an interesting question, are Chinese characters more efficient for NLP? In the sense that semantic meaning of a word is not chopped up into partial "tokens".