Osama Khalid
@osamakhalid.bsky.social
SWE YouTube Language Research
CompSci (PhD) + Linguist (MA) = NLP
UIowa | LUMS alumni
I work on all things interdisciplinary (especially if language is involved), and share things I find interesting
CompSci (PhD) + Linguist (MA) = NLP
UIowa | LUMS alumni
I work on all things interdisciplinary (especially if language is involved), and share things I find interesting
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
🚨 Weekend Project: I finally finished a small project I've been working on. A web extension to solve my personal language learning problem!
www.youtube.com/shorts/XsAdZ... 1/n
www.youtube.com/shorts/XsAdZ... 1/n
Word Saver: An Illustrative Demo (Short)
YouTube video by Osama Khalid
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
🚨 Weekend Project: I finally finished a small project I've been working on. A web extension to solve my personal language learning problem!
www.youtube.com/shorts/XsAdZ... 1/n
www.youtube.com/shorts/XsAdZ... 1/n
Reposted by Osama Khalid
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
July 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
"When the public discourse focuses on whether chatbots have consciousness, we're not talking about documented harms like privacy violations, algorithmic bias... The fake risk of sentient AI provides perfect cover for ignoring real risks that affect real people today"
www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...
www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...
Stop Pretending Chatbots Have Feelings: Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem
When AI causes harm, headlines blame the bot instead of the billion-dollar companies that built them. This anthropomorphic coverage is tech journalism at its worst.
www.readtpa.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"When the public discourse focuses on whether chatbots have consciousness, we're not talking about documented harms like privacy violations, algorithmic bias... The fake risk of sentient AI provides perfect cover for ignoring real risks that affect real people today"
www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...
www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...
Swahili’s long history as a ‘language on the road’ has traversed 19th-century trade routes, entered 20th-century classrooms, carried Julius Nyerere on his political ‘safaris’, and forged connections across Africa.
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
Swahili on the Road
www.historytoday.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Swahili’s long history as a ‘language on the road’ has traversed 19th-century trade routes, entered 20th-century classrooms, carried Julius Nyerere on his political ‘safaris’, and forged connections across Africa.
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
🚨 Weekend project:
Urdu Audiobook Generation:
youtube.com/watch?v=PYrO...
Urdu is generally considered a low-resource language[1], and there isn't enough training data to build high-quality systems.
I wanted to explore how far I can push TTS (text-to-speech) in Urdu. 1/3
Urdu Audiobook Generation:
youtube.com/watch?v=PYrO...
Urdu is generally considered a low-resource language[1], and there isn't enough training data to build high-quality systems.
I wanted to explore how far I can push TTS (text-to-speech) in Urdu. 1/3
youtube.com
February 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🚨 Weekend project:
Urdu Audiobook Generation:
youtube.com/watch?v=PYrO...
Urdu is generally considered a low-resource language[1], and there isn't enough training data to build high-quality systems.
I wanted to explore how far I can push TTS (text-to-speech) in Urdu. 1/3
Urdu Audiobook Generation:
youtube.com/watch?v=PYrO...
Urdu is generally considered a low-resource language[1], and there isn't enough training data to build high-quality systems.
I wanted to explore how far I can push TTS (text-to-speech) in Urdu. 1/3
letterformarchive.org/news/this-ju...
Chopstick sleeves can be both functional and cultural artifacts.
Chopstick sleeves can be both functional and cultural artifacts.
This Just In: Chopstick Sleeves as Emissaries of Japanese Typography and Culture
Designer and educator Angie Wang deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the Archive.
letterformarchive.org
February 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
letterformarchive.org/news/this-ju...
Chopstick sleeves can be both functional and cultural artifacts.
Chopstick sleeves can be both functional and cultural artifacts.
Since the Chagos Islands are back in the news.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
On the issue with domain names (e.g. .io , .tv, .nu) and digital colonialism
www.wired.com/story/the-di...
Archived: archive.ph/im6HN
www.bbc.com/news/article...
On the issue with domain names (e.g. .io , .tv, .nu) and digital colonialism
www.wired.com/story/the-di...
Archived: archive.ph/im6HN
The Digital Colonialism Behind .tv and .ly
Country-specific domain names can generate a lot of money—but for whom?
www.wired.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Since the Chagos Islands are back in the news.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
On the issue with domain names (e.g. .io , .tv, .nu) and digital colonialism
www.wired.com/story/the-di...
Archived: archive.ph/im6HN
www.bbc.com/news/article...
On the issue with domain names (e.g. .io , .tv, .nu) and digital colonialism
www.wired.com/story/the-di...
Archived: archive.ph/im6HN
Among the many applications of stylometry... weaponizing language (or any technology) as a tool of prosecution always leaves a bad taste in my mouth
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Can a Comma Solve a Crime? — The Dial
How forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.
www.thedial.world
December 9, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Among the many applications of stylometry... weaponizing language (or any technology) as a tool of prosecution always leaves a bad taste in my mouth
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice
latimes.com/opinion/stor...
"When we kill the guilty, we become needlessly cruel. When we kill the conceivably innocent, we become a mockery of ourselves and our supposed allegiance to justice."
latimes.com/opinion/stor...
"When we kill the guilty, we become needlessly cruel. When we kill the conceivably innocent, we become a mockery of ourselves and our supposed allegiance to justice."
Editorial: Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice
On Friday, North Carolina executed Freddie Owens, even after serious doubts about his guilt emerged. When we kill the conceivably innocent, we become a mockery of ourselves and our supposed allegiance...
latimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice
latimes.com/opinion/stor...
"When we kill the guilty, we become needlessly cruel. When we kill the conceivably innocent, we become a mockery of ourselves and our supposed allegiance to justice."
latimes.com/opinion/stor...
"When we kill the guilty, we become needlessly cruel. When we kill the conceivably innocent, we become a mockery of ourselves and our supposed allegiance to justice."
Thats it! I am leaving academia and becoming a YouTuber!
November 21, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Thats it! I am leaving academia and becoming a YouTuber!
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📢 Osama Khalid (osamakhalid.bsky.social) will defend his doctoral thesis
"Charting Sensorial Style: New Frontiers in Linguistic Style Analysis"
tomorrow Wednesday 11/20 at 10:15am in 2520C UCC.
Deets at bit.ly/khalid_11_20
#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad24 #AcademicSky #stylometry #linguistics 👨🎓 🤞
"Charting Sensorial Style: New Frontiers in Linguistic Style Analysis"
tomorrow Wednesday 11/20 at 10:15am in 2520C UCC.
Deets at bit.ly/khalid_11_20
#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad24 #AcademicSky #stylometry #linguistics 👨🎓 🤞
November 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM
📢 Osama Khalid (osamakhalid.bsky.social) will defend his doctoral thesis
"Charting Sensorial Style: New Frontiers in Linguistic Style Analysis"
tomorrow Wednesday 11/20 at 10:15am in 2520C UCC.
Deets at bit.ly/khalid_11_20
#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad24 #AcademicSky #stylometry #linguistics 👨🎓 🤞
"Charting Sensorial Style: New Frontiers in Linguistic Style Analysis"
tomorrow Wednesday 11/20 at 10:15am in 2520C UCC.
Deets at bit.ly/khalid_11_20
#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad24 #AcademicSky #stylometry #linguistics 👨🎓 🤞
Did you know ى is more likely to occur at the end of a word than at the start. There are more words which start with م than there are words that end with it.
Used Python+MATLAB+MSPaint to visualize how the letters in the #Urdu language are distributed within words.
Used Python+MATLAB+MSPaint to visualize how the letters in the #Urdu language are distributed within words.
November 17, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Did you know ى is more likely to occur at the end of a word than at the start. There are more words which start with م than there are words that end with it.
Used Python+MATLAB+MSPaint to visualize how the letters in the #Urdu language are distributed within words.
Used Python+MATLAB+MSPaint to visualize how the letters in the #Urdu language are distributed within words.
What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?
TitleCase
devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...
TitleCase
devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...
What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? - The Old New Thing
It has one foot in each world but belongs to neither.
devblogs.microsoft.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:10 PM
What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?
TitleCase
devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...
TitleCase
devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...