From 59b68af6c9cd1f9ec50392864ac95430524d82d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:10:24 -0400 Subject: add ancient --- 2026/talks/ancient.md | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2026/talks/ancient.md (limited to '2026/talks/ancient.md') diff --git a/2026/talks/ancient.md b/2026/talks/ancient.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..195d558c --- /dev/null +++ b/2026/talks/ancient.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +[[!meta title="Learning an ancient language with an ancient text editor"]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2026 Mike Hamrick"]] +[[!inline pages="internal(2026/info/ancient-nav)" raw="yes"]] + + + + + +# Learning an ancient language with an ancient text editor +Mike Hamrick (he/him) - + +[[!inline pages="internal(2026/info/ancient-before)" raw="yes"]] + +There is a vast treasure trove of free Latin language pedagogical content +available on the Internet, but shockingly little of it is in plaintext – +the greppable, diffable, interoperable, and eternal format that is the +fundamental substrate of GNU Emacs. + +In this talk I'll demonstrate how I use both local and cloud-hosted ML +models to transform recorded Latin audio into glorious structured plaintext +that not only encodes the text itself, but also its morphological and +semantic context. Thus transformed, we can now render the text with +attached metadata that enables powerful word-at-point features like +linguistic details in the echo area, accurate dictionary lookups, and audio +playback with precise word alignment. + +- Slides: +- Live website: + + + +[[!inline pages="internal(2026/info/ancient-after)" raw="yes"]] + +[[!inline pages="internal(2026/info/ancient-nav)" raw="yes"]] + + -- cgit v1.2.3