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Software engineer | Bridging technology & humanities | Making the internet a more Hebrew friendly place hebrewtransliteration.app

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · May 30

Today is my final day at Northwestern University.

After 6 short months, I have been laid off due to the termination of the IMLS grant that funded my position.
I worked with an amazing team that led that charge in integrating Ai powered tools wisely into museum & library science.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 6h

In true dev fashion, I may be over engineering the job search

Google Sheets query: =CONCATENATE("site:", TRIM(site_query!B2), " ", TEXTJOIN(" AND ", TRUE, ARRAYFORMULA("(" & content_query!$B$2:B & ")")))

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 1d

The job hunt continues…

If anyone knows of any open developer roles, preferably in ed tech or ed tech adjacent, I'd appreciate the lead!

If you don't, please repost!

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 7d

This is part of the clover-ai plugin for integrating models into the clover #iiif image viewer
charlesloder.github.io/clover-ai/?p...

storybook - Storybook

charlesloder.github.io

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 7d

People are sleeping on GoogleAi's #Gemma 3n models.

They run entirely on-device, they're fast, and they're surprisingly capable.

Here it is transcribing a letter — no API calls, just local inference on a Mac M2.
Watch that GPU usage!

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 13d

There's a site for Greek too if you ever want to save time trying to type those pesky macrons
charlesloder.github.io/greekTransli...

Greek Transliteration - Transliterate

charlesloder.github.io

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 13d

I do absolutely love working with the editors at Baker, and I'm glad that they've recommended the tool to so many. It's a fantastic team

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 13d

My app made it into the Baker Acacemic/Brazo's Style Manual! Is this the editorial mountain top?!

Hebrew and Greek transliteration should follow the patterns presented in SBLHS (5.1.1; 5.3), which also provides detailed guidance on applying these transliteration schemes to specific cases. Charles Loder’s transliteration app (https://hebrewtransliteration.app/#) can be used to confirm the correct form of Hebrew transliteration when you are uncertain.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 18d

> Online trends tend to start from chaos and gain momentum without explanation: For example, “404 Not Found” went from a nonsense phrase found on a dead-end page of the web

Ummm…404 is an HTTP status code, not a nonsense phrase. Even AI knows this

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

The Meaning of the “6, 7” Meme Scene on the Season 28 ‘South Park’ Premiere

The kids of South Park Elementary are not starting a dangerous cult with the phrase; they are merely embracing the existential meaninglessness of it all.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 22d

Associate Marketing Manager position at Hendrickson

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#tyndalehouse #hiring #marketingjobs #publishingcareers #christianpublishing #hendricksonpublishers | Tyndale House Publishers

📣 We’re hiring! Join the Hendrickson Publishers team at Tyndale House as our next Associate Marketing Manager in Peabody, MA. We’re looking for someone with 3–5 years of marketing experience (publish...

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 22d

You only get a badge when the action runs correctly on the first try. No one has gotten a badge so far

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 22d

So do I hate Python? Or do I really hate C++?

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 29d

Multimodal chat with visions models in the browser is surprisingly difficult. I've tried Transformers.js, web-llm, and MediaPipe, and they all seem to have some critical shortcoming.

Am I doing this wrong? Or anyone have recommendations?

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · 29d

I was so tempted to click on this ad

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Oct 4

I’m curious if anyone has used these models with multi spectral images of manuscripts

developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking...

Unlocking Multi-Spectral Data with Gemini- Google Developers Blog

Multi-spectral imagery, which captures wavelengths beyond human vision, offers a "superhuman" way to understand the world, and Google's Gemini models make this accessible without specialized training.

developers.googleblog.com

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Oct 1

But you could use something like Opencode with Ollama running Gemma to do the same.
opencode.ai/docs/commands/

Commands

Create custom commands for repetitive tasks.

opencode.ai

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Oct 1

No, the CLI is only for use with Gemini.
github.com/google-gemin...

GitHub - google-gemini/gemini-cli: An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.

An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. - google-gemini/gemini-cli

github.com

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Sep 30

Experimenting with a custom Gemini command for adding alt text.

Gemini CLI can:
- fetch the accessibility guide for context
- fetch the images and understand them

This allows for good alt text.

Not just a description of the image, but text that is related to the context

A code snippet of a Gemini custom slash command for generating alt text. The code says:

```toml
description = "Asks the model to check for image tags without any alt text, and add text based on surrounding context."

prompt = """
Find all image image alt text that is empty and add descriptive alt text based on the surrounding context.

When writing alt text, consider the context of where and how the image is being used.
The surrounding text of the document, website, or email may affect which parts of the image are most important to describe.

Follow this guide: https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images
"""
```

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Sep 25

Mulling over "silent" and I think it has potential!

The word currently is getting syllabified as 'וַ' and 'יַּ֫רְא', so the second syllable could be parsed like below.

Sorry for all the code!

Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Sep 25

Maybe just "initial consonant" and "final consonant" would be the orthographic analogs?

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Sep 25

I can't find any traditional grammar terminology for the onset and coda of a syllable.

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Sep 25

This is for my syllabification package. I'm trying to figure out how to convey the "structure" of the syllable using terminology that's precedented but not conflicting.
github.com/charlesLoder...

GitHub - charlesLoder/havarotjs: A Typescript package for getting syllabic data about Hebrew text with niqqud.

A Typescript package for getting syllabic data about Hebrew text with niqqud. - charlesLoder/havarotjs

github.com

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Sep 25

> mixing up orthography and phonology
Yeah, that's what I'm concerned about, but traditional grammars conflate them (e.g. GKC §8b)

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Sep 25

Would it be wrong to say for the 2nd syllable that "the nucleus is a hiriq-yod"

I feel like it's conflating different types of terminology

The hebrew word יַשְׁמִ֞יד with a hiriq-yod in the second syllable

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Charles Loder @charlesloder.bsky.social · Sep 25

Richard Scheines, dean of CMU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, said. “…there’s interesting tools that we can apply to some of the questions humanists are asking, but get much more robust answers from the data than we’ve had before.”
www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

How One University Is Reimagining a Humanities Ph.D. Program

Carnegie Mellon is turning its literary and cultural studies Ph.D. program into one focused on computational cultural studies. The reframe comes as many humanities graduate programs face an uncertain ...