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Charles Loder
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Software engineer | Bridging technology & humanities | Making the internet a more Hebrew friendly place hebrewtransliteration.app
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This idea has been rattling in my head.

Instead of focusing on how "intelligent" a model is, the real power of LLMs shines when their intelligence is constrained by limiting what data the model can draw on.

Not sure if I'm missing anything in this graph
A graph with the title "Constraining LLM Intelligence" with the Y-axis labeled "Powerful" and the X-axis labeled "Portable". Four techniques are displayed in a downward slope with starting with "Fine tuning" then "RAG" then "Tool Calling" then "Prompting."
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Had to make an account just to try out a sandboxed version of an API, and on top of that you HAVE to subscribe to the newsletter
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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 & ")")))
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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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!
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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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.
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I was so tempted to click on this ad
October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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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 """ ```
September 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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!
September 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Maybe just "initial consonant" and "final consonant" would be the orthographic analogs?
September 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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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
September 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Big news on the LinkedIn, Baker acquires Lexham Press:
Baker Publishing Group, a leading independent Christian publishing house, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Lexham Press, the in-house publishing division of Logos. This strategic acquisition deepens the longstanding partnership between the two companies and expands Baker's portfolio of academic and Christian living content. "I'm pleased to bring Lexham Press into Baker Publishing House," said Jesse Myers, president and CEO of Baker Publishing Group. "I know firsthand the depth, rigor, and value of titles published by Lexham Press, and I'm excited to broaden the reach of Lexham's work under the Baker umbrella." This acquisition represents a win-win scenario: Baker gains access to Lexham's proven publishing expertise and content catalog, while Logos can dedicate full attention to enhancing its industry-leading digital Bible study platform. Under the transaction terms, Logos retains the rights to Lexham Press content within Logos, ensuring that these valuable titles will continue to anchor Logos's comprehensive library bundles. "Baker Publishing Group is an excellent forever home for Lexham Press because of their shared commitment to delivering best-in-class content and deep expertise in Christian publishing," said Matthew Bennett, vice president of content products at Logos. "I'm excited to see how Lexham thrives under the Baker brand and reaches even more students of Scripture for generations to come."
September 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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v0.4.0 of clover-ai adds two new exciting features:
• Canvas context
• Tool calling

The first user message in the video demonstrates both of these.
September 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Ran into an "Excessive complexity" error with these:
A IIIF Image URL in Typescript types
September 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Typescript is just awesome
September 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Once it found everything, it created the .ris file!
August 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The last entry was an article, not a book so it wasn't in the Open Library's data. Claude went and did a web search.
August 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Using an unofficial MCP server for the Open Library API (from Internet Archive), it searched for and got bibliographic data for two items

github.com/8enSmith/mcp...
August 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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A fun quick experiment with MCP!

I gave Claude a very short PDF (2 pages) with only 3 citations from a small paper I wrote a while back in grad school.

I asked it find the books in the paper and generate a .ris file for importing into Zotero
August 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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C'mon put a little effort into your scams
A scam email with the vaguest language possible: Hello! I recently read your research published on Academia.edu and was deeply impressed by your insights. Your research aligns closely with my own interests, and I believe there may be opportunities for meaningful collaboration or exchange of ideas. If you are willing, I would be happy to explore possible collaborations, whether sharing resources, exchanging ideas, or participating in future research projects. Since I don't check email often, could you please share your phone number or use WhatsApp or Telegram? These are my preferred contact methods.
August 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Abbreviations can't hide from me!
August 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Acc. to SBL when citing a web page, it should include the "owner or sponsor" of a site. Zotero calls this field "Website Title."

And neither of those are encoded in any real way in a site. The page has a title, and it's hosted on a domain.

Maybe a meta tag could supply this?
July 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I'm continuing to work on clover-ai in my spare time, and trying to build more in public.

Below is a Latin ms from the CA State Library via @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social. The transcription isn't perfect, but for mss which may never be transcribed, these models can do a lot with little effort
July 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The role: Senior Software Engineer (React UI)
The qualifications:
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Dear authors,

Please learn how to use style guides in Word. This is not how you make a bibliographic entry.
July 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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What does the superscript "b" mean?
July 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM