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?

I was so tempted to click on this ad

I’m curious if anyone has used these models with multi spectral images of manuscripts developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking...

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

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

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...

DS seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for a full-time, NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship. To apply, please follow this link: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

Big news on the LinkedIn, Baker acquires Lexham Press:

Harvard recently launched an MVP of a semantic search and AI-driven collections discovery system called Collections Explorer. collex.lib.harvard.edu

LinkedIn really really really wants me to buy Premium

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.

Anyone have any cool examples of IIIF Annotations?

I posted earlier today about a whole bunch of ePubs and diglots of early Christian writings that are available from github.com/AppianWayPress. Now that it is in semblance of order, I can use it to fuel a simple RAG system to answer questions based on early Christian writings. Like this:

I'm happy to live in a place where we have social safety nets, and I am extremely grateful for them. The bureaucracy of the programs, however, forms a system where receiving help from others creates burdens on the system and those seeking help It all feels so counterintuitive…

Ran into an "Excessive complexity" error with these:

Typescript is just awesome

How can Louisville be so close to so many other major cities, and the only public transit options is…bus

M. Fishbane's Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel was published in 1985, and then issued in paperback in 1988. Apparently, causing 37 years worth of confusion as to whether it was published in 1985 or 1988

We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology…it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the future of AI which have a common tendency to treat it akin to a separate species, a highly autonomous, potentially superintelligent entity.

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

Remember, when applying for jobs, make sure to follow up with the position except — - there is no HR email - there's no way to know who the hiring manager is - LinkedIn won't let you message anyone w/o $$$$ - no one lists an email - you've prob been rejected by a robot already anyways

Once again, if you know of any open web/software developer positions especially at the intersection of education and tech, let me know! DMs are open

I want to love Hugging Face & the transformers library, I really do, but I'm not sure I've ever had it "just work"

Resume writing advice: Don't just list what tech you used, show results! ATS/HR: sorry, you didn't list the same 18 technologies we did, I guess you're not a good match

C'mon put a little effort into your scams

Abbreviations can't hide from me!

TIL that Word macros on Mac are a special kind of permissions hell

Is there anyone on here I should be following? Drop a handle in the comments! I feel like my network on this site has stagnated, and I'd love to follow more people and the cool work they're doing

Props to all the people who know how to game the welfare system — getting unemployment is wayyyy harder than software

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?

I keep seeing academics on this platform post about how bad AI is — hallucinations, fake citations. They're valid. But these complaints miss how AI can help, especially with editing. A 🧵 about using AI to collate a bibliography for 40 chapters in a few hours (not days)…

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

Life with a toddler involves your spouse asking questions like: "Which brooms are the mommy and daddy sea monsters again?"

So was COS published as 3 separate volumes and then again as a single volume in 2003?

The role: Senior Software Engineer (React UI) The qualifications:

Is there a best way to indicate reprint info for a title in @zotero.org? Using the SBL author-date style if that makes a difference

New Testament job at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY877/a...

Dear authors, Please learn how to use style guides in Word. This is not how you make a bibliographic entry.

Really cool collaborative IIIF annotation tool www.linkedin.com/posts/rainer...

📢As you may know, I am on the job hunt again (federal funding cuts, hooray). I'm looking for full-stack/frontend dev roles, esp in the education space. ⬇️Your company hiring or know that is? Drop them below! Boost that engagement algo too (hence the emojis) with a 🔁RT ❤️Like

Posting for later www.ebsco.com/blogs/ebscop...

Came across a frontend developer position wanting…strong C#/.NET and SQL skills So that's the state of my job search now

So the Gemini CLI can't write an integration test for a React component — I guess the AI is as smart as a human now

In the past 2 days I've sewn on a button and a patch — am I a trad wife now?

What does the superscript "b" mean?

Do I know anyone at Sage Publishing or anyone who knows anyone at Sage?

So now when I add a new comment in Word, it just doesn't show the text. Just nothing. Got to love the world's worst software

LinkedIn is still such a strange place. I'm trying to find a pretty normal job — developer. And everyone on the platform is celebrating their new role as "Director of Brand Happiness and Integrated Optimizations" Like what are these jobs people are doing????

What I'm most excited about is how well these models are at text transcription now 📜 Checkout how well it transcribes this siddur — niqqud included — without ever leaving the #iiif viewer

🎉🎉🎉 I'm excited to release Clover-AI☘️🤖 🎉🎉🎉 A plugin that extends the Clover-IIIF viewer with AI capabilities allowing users chat with an LLM using Manifest metadata and images as context — including the current view from Openseadragon!