Daniel Wilson
@danielwilson.bsky.social
Thinking about Data and Machines, their Histories and Cultures. Sometimes using Computers.
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🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci
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🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci
Nicolas Cage does David Hume. ‘What is Causation?’
February 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Nicolas Cage does David Hume. ‘What is Causation?’
Ye of little faith, dry and bright. (You can give the £ to charity)
November 20, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Ye of little faith, dry and bright. (You can give the £ to charity)
On the way to the TaNC Conference. 'Avanti' West Coast defying low expectations to get out of frozen London only 20 minutes late so far...
Contractually obliged to show Bletchley Park environs, which are not as pretty as Scotland.
Contractually obliged to show Bletchley Park environs, which are not as pretty as Scotland.
November 20, 2024 at 8:59 AM
On the way to the TaNC Conference. 'Avanti' West Coast defying low expectations to get out of frozen London only 20 minutes late so far...
Contractually obliged to show Bletchley Park environs, which are not as pretty as Scotland.
Contractually obliged to show Bletchley Park environs, which are not as pretty as Scotland.
… it means humans and machines.
August 6, 2024 at 10:51 PM
… it means humans and machines.
Long Island, seen from Brooklyn (not that one) at dusk.
July 2, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Long Island, seen from Brooklyn (not that one) at dusk.
Final session of #AHA24, suitably optimistic about the need for historians to be part of building a data science that works for the world, with @kmcdono.bsky.social and @nolauren.bsky.social in particular knocking it out of the park. 🗃️
January 7, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Final session of #AHA24, suitably optimistic about the need for historians to be part of building a data science that works for the world, with @kmcdono.bsky.social and @nolauren.bsky.social in particular knocking it out of the park. 🗃️
Quick visit to the Center for the Book, where movable type and beautiful book-binding still alive, before a panel on the automation of work. #AHA24 🗃️
January 7, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Quick visit to the Center for the Book, where movable type and beautiful book-binding still alive, before a panel on the automation of work. #AHA24 🗃️
Very humbling to pick up the Roy Rosenzweig award at the #AHA24 last night among such brave and inspiring scholars, often under physical attack for doing public history. Proud of our ‘MapReader’, but seems a bit trifling by comparison. 🗃️
January 5, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Very humbling to pick up the Roy Rosenzweig award at the #AHA24 last night among such brave and inspiring scholars, often under physical attack for doing public history. Proud of our ‘MapReader’, but seems a bit trifling by comparison. 🗃️
Just in time for CHR. Coincidence?
December 7, 2023 at 6:14 PM
Just in time for CHR. Coincidence?
December 7, 2023 at 10:29 AM
So glad that public institutions in France do not (yet) see coffee as an opportunity to gouge addicts. Also: no discrimination based on size or type 👍
December 6, 2023 at 2:01 PM
So glad that public institutions in France do not (yet) see coffee as an opportunity to gouge addicts. Also: no discrimination based on size or type 👍
Sad I will miss this festival of cheese
December 6, 2023 at 1:08 PM
Sad I will miss this festival of cheese
Final leg, two wheels good
December 6, 2023 at 10:27 AM
Final leg, two wheels good
Not exactly ‘a beaker full of the warm south’, but I wasn’t expecting this when I left the house without my sunglasses
December 6, 2023 at 8:14 AM
Not exactly ‘a beaker full of the warm south’, but I wasn’t expecting this when I left the house without my sunglasses
Great to be back at the BnF after many years, here for the final workshop of the impressive SoDUCo project on the c19 history of cities. In their case, Paris; in mine, learning new methods for working with British directories.
soduco.geohistoricaldata.org
soduco.geohistoricaldata.org
November 6, 2023 at 8:32 AM
Great to be back at the BnF after many years, here for the final workshop of the impressive SoDUCo project on the c19 history of cities. In their case, Paris; in mine, learning new methods for working with British directories.
soduco.geohistoricaldata.org
soduco.geohistoricaldata.org
Passing Bletchley Park at 125mph is the closest I’ll get to the AI summit today. Not sure which of Sunak or Musk is most desperate to save their career. Fireside chat on X not a great look. Prepare for Musk to blame everyone else. Glad Connor Leahy is in the room; Nick Clegg, not so much.
November 1, 2023 at 2:03 PM
Passing Bletchley Park at 125mph is the closest I’ll get to the AI summit today. Not sure which of Sunak or Musk is most desperate to save their career. Fireside chat on X not a great look. Prepare for Musk to blame everyone else. Glad Connor Leahy is in the room; Nick Clegg, not so much.
I thought I couldn’t have any more love for Radio France, but then I saw their new T&Cs on curation and privacy (tl;dr: it’s done by hand not algorithm)
September 8, 2023 at 11:59 AM
I thought I couldn’t have any more love for Radio France, but then I saw their new T&Cs on curation and privacy (tl;dr: it’s done by hand not algorithm)
Brooding sky at Bawdsey Manor in Suffolk where I met a surveyor measuring dramatic coastal erosion. This gothic Victorian building, crucial site of WW2 development of Radar, looks likely to be swallowed by the North Sea.
August 30, 2023 at 9:31 PM
Brooding sky at Bawdsey Manor in Suffolk where I met a surveyor measuring dramatic coastal erosion. This gothic Victorian building, crucial site of WW2 development of Radar, looks likely to be swallowed by the North Sea.
Happy to publish in *Technology & Culture*, having read so much amazing work there over the years. Hoping History & STS will engage with the question of language models. Thanks to my wonderful co-authors. Explanatory 🧵 was here: zirk.us/@LivingWithM...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
August 25, 2023 at 12:54 PM
Happy to publish in *Technology & Culture*, having read so much amazing work there over the years. Hoping History & STS will engage with the question of language models. Thanks to my wonderful co-authors. Explanatory 🧵 was here: zirk.us/@LivingWithM...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Another day, another platform! I don't have a cat, but can share a picture of this tree in Essex I'm often looking at, in front of some bsky this week.
August 25, 2023 at 12:47 PM
Another day, another platform! I don't have a cat, but can share a picture of this tree in Essex I'm often looking at, in front of some bsky this week.