James Tauber
@jtauber.com
Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Web, Python, ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Literary Studies, Data Visualization, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Space.
PhD candidate @dhssfau.bsky.social
Web, Python, ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Literary Studies, Data Visualization, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Space.
PhD candidate @dhssfau.bsky.social
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James Tauber
@jtauber.com
· Nov 3
Intro for new followers: I'm a long-time (i.e. old) Python and Web developer. Now mostly apply that to digital humanities and corpus linguistics with focus on historical languages (especially Ancient Greek) and Tolkien. Also education, data visualization, music theory, and a handful of other things.
way to make me feel OLD!! *38 years ago*
Red Dwarf started 38 years ago today on BBC Two with the aptly named "The End".
February 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
way to make me feel OLD!! *38 years ago*
@mshakir-dr.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy btw, I'm close to releasing an initial version of my catalogue of lexico-grammatical features that I emailed about a while ago
February 15, 2026 at 10:34 AM
@mshakir-dr.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy btw, I'm close to releasing an initial version of my catalogue of lexico-grammatical features that I emailed about a while ago
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Claude and I made a Tonnetz visualization of the Shostakovich Fugue in A major: jtauber.github.io/shostakovich...
Illustrates the chromatic mediants really well.
Illustrates the chromatic mediants really well.
Tonnetz — Shostakovich Fugue 7 in A major
jtauber.github.io
February 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Claude and I made a Tonnetz visualization of the Shostakovich Fugue in A major: jtauber.github.io/shostakovich...
Illustrates the chromatic mediants really well.
Illustrates the chromatic mediants really well.
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Beanbag #180 | Project Amaze!
Deep Space Network Live Tracking
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February 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Claude and I made a Tonnetz visualization of the Shostakovich Fugue in A major: jtauber.github.io/shostakovich...
Illustrates the chromatic mediants really well.
Illustrates the chromatic mediants really well.
Tonnetz — Shostakovich Fugue 7 in A major
jtauber.github.io
February 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Claude and I made a Tonnetz visualization of the Shostakovich Fugue in A major: jtauber.github.io/shostakovich...
Illustrates the chromatic mediants really well.
Illustrates the chromatic mediants really well.
my biggest decluttering regret is getting rid of my BYTE magazines from the 80s a couple of decades ago.
I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st
Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 AM
my biggest decluttering regret is getting rid of my BYTE magazines from the 80s a couple of decades ago.
Got Sonnet to do some annotation. Told Opus to go fix the errors in the result. I wonder if that's going to turn out to be an effective strategy for large-scale annotation.
February 13, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Got Sonnet to do some annotation. Told Opus to go fix the errors in the result. I wonder if that's going to turn out to be an effective strategy for large-scale annotation.
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Alternating between a very careful manual annotation of Tolkien and a completely automated analysis of The Maltese Falcon :-)
February 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Alternating between a very careful manual annotation of Tolkien and a completely automated analysis of The Maltese Falcon :-)
Wonderful talk by @michamahlberg.bsky.social and (if the recording is available) one I can point people to when they ask why I'm doing my PhD where I am :-)
February 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Wonderful talk by @michamahlberg.bsky.social and (if the recording is available) one I can point people to when they ask why I'm doing my PhD where I am :-)
Working on a paper on the Council of Elrond that I’m very excited about.
February 11, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Working on a paper on the Council of Elrond that I’m very excited about.
Doing some experiments on The Maltese Falcon
February 11, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Doing some experiments on The Maltese Falcon
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another PPP episode in the can
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
another PPP episode in the can
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A reminder about tomorrow’s lecture by @michamahlberg.bsky.social at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social.
For more info and the Zoom link: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...
For more info and the Zoom link: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...
February 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
A reminder about tomorrow’s lecture by @michamahlberg.bsky.social at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social.
For more info and the Zoom link: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...
For more info and the Zoom link: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...
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Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Geographic Information Systems, with Cian Colgan (Furman), @geophilologist.bsky.social (Durham), Rebecca Seifried (U Mass Amherst). Thursday 12th Feb 2026, 16:00 – 17:30 GMT. ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Geographic Information Systems
ics.sas.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Geographic Information Systems, with Cian Colgan (Furman), @geophilologist.bsky.social (Durham), Rebecca Seifried (U Mass Amherst). Thursday 12th Feb 2026, 16:00 – 17:30 GMT. ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Searching for any form of "magnus" followed by any noun—just one example of flexible pattern matching possible with LatinCy Readers `find_sents` call...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Searching for any form of "magnus" followed by any noun—just one example of flexible pattern matching possible with LatinCy Readers `find_sents` call...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
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+ I was already loving Dan Romer's music and the main theme in particular. So it was slightly surprising that at the moment of eucastrophe, it's Ramin Djawadi's Game of Thrones theme that plays.
And then the twist as the credits roll! It's moments like that that inspire me as a composer.
And then the twist as the credits roll! It's moments like that that inspire me as a composer.
February 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
+ I was already loving Dan Romer's music and the main theme in particular. So it was slightly surprising that at the moment of eucastrophe, it's Ramin Djawadi's Game of Thrones theme that plays.
And then the twist as the credits roll! It's moments like that that inspire me as a composer.
And then the twist as the credits roll! It's moments like that that inspire me as a composer.
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It's not often I have an OMG moment in TV scores (in a good way!). Until a couple of days ago, the best example was Ludwig Göransson's season-final cue "Come With Me" from the Mandalorian.
Well the end title music for the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had a similar effect. +
Well the end title music for the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had a similar effect. +
February 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
It's not often I have an OMG moment in TV scores (in a good way!). Until a couple of days ago, the best example was Ludwig Göransson's season-final cue "Come With Me" from the Mandalorian.
Well the end title music for the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had a similar effect. +
Well the end title music for the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had a similar effect. +
It's not often I have an OMG moment in TV scores (in a good way!). Until a couple of days ago, the best example was Ludwig Göransson's season-final cue "Come With Me" from the Mandalorian.
Well the end title music for the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had a similar effect. +
Well the end title music for the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had a similar effect. +
February 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
It's not often I have an OMG moment in TV scores (in a good way!). Until a couple of days ago, the best example was Ludwig Göransson's season-final cue "Come With Me" from the Mandalorian.
Well the end title music for the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had a similar effect. +
Well the end title music for the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had a similar effect. +
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February 8, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Letta Code running on an Obsidian Vault is working *incredibly* well.
February 8, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Letta Code running on an Obsidian Vault is working *incredibly* well.