Tom
@twilliams81.bsky.social
PhD candidate at UVa doing fun things with novels and computers. Biographer of Raymond Chandler. Occasional critic.
Glad I live in world where when you ask for brine at the deli they give you a bucket of the stuff. It’s a 3-olive martini day. Happy Thanksgiving to all
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Glad I live in world where when you ask for brine at the deli they give you a bucket of the stuff. It’s a 3-olive martini day. Happy Thanksgiving to all
UVA people, please join us tomorrow at 11am in The Scholar’s Lab where I’ll be talking with Professor Adrienne Ghaly about our use of LLM’s to look for biodiversity in nineteenth century prose fiction. There’s lunch and we’re looking for feedback on our work.
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
UVA people, please join us tomorrow at 11am in The Scholar’s Lab where I’ll be talking with Professor Adrienne Ghaly about our use of LLM’s to look for biodiversity in nineteenth century prose fiction. There’s lunch and we’re looking for feedback on our work.
A preview of a slide from Saturday’s #NAVSA2025 talk on Maria Edgeworth. I built a network of adverts featuring Edgeworth and Austen where the edges are other titles and authors. This graph shows the size of the nodes and visualises Edgeworth’s declining prestige in adverts across 19th century
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A preview of a slide from Saturday’s #NAVSA2025 talk on Maria Edgeworth. I built a network of adverts featuring Edgeworth and Austen where the edges are other titles and authors. This graph shows the size of the nodes and visualises Edgeworth’s declining prestige in adverts across 19th century
Looking forward to talking at the DH Center at UVA on 11/18 about a project I’m working on with Prof Adrienne Ghaly. Can AI help us understand how biodiversity is represented in 19th century fiction?If you’re in Charlottesville and would like to know more, please come along.
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Looking forward to talking at the DH Center at UVA on 11/18 about a project I’m working on with Prof Adrienne Ghaly. Can AI help us understand how biodiversity is represented in 19th century fiction?If you’re in Charlottesville and would like to know more, please come along.
If you ever wondered what the NG are doing in DC…
October 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If you ever wondered what the NG are doing in DC…
Nervously running a script written with codex on ~17k 19th century adverts. Missing the comfort of Jupyter notebooks and tqdm.
October 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Nervously running a script written with codex on ~17k 19th century adverts. Missing the comfort of Jupyter notebooks and tqdm.
Some fun with Sora. It’s all a bit BBC drama but kind of amazing all the same
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Some fun with Sora. It’s all a bit BBC drama but kind of amazing all the same