
Thomas (Tom) Elton
AI & NLP Researcher in Education | PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
My research explores how AI (in particular, natural language processing) can augment education by researching and building tools that help teachers quickly scale best pedagogical practices to large cohorts.
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Java Wildcards: Taming Generic Invariance
In this post, we are going to look at wildcards in Java. Wildcards are a feature of Java generics that let you write methods flexible enough to accept a whole family of related types, without throwing away type safety. To motivate why they exist, we are going to start with…
Generating a University Lab with Claude Code
This post explores a lab I produced on large language model training and how I used Claude Code to help generate the lab. Introducing the Model Fine-Tuning Lab This semester, I’m a tutor (USA equivalent: Teaching Assistant) for a new unit at the University of Sydney – INFO4994: AI Literacy and…
Key Learnings: UDL Symposium 2025
The UDL Symposium 2025 was held 25-26 June at the University of Sydney. It was a privilege to attend the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Symposium this week at the University of Sydney! As someone with little previous knowledge about UDL, it was great to hear from so many different people…
HPTV Project Jan Update: 1-Sample Z/T-Test
This short post is to share that a new update of the Hypothesis Tests Visualised Project is out! At the bottom of this post, you’ll see a summary of all the major updates made. Most significantly, I have finished three new exercises: 1-sample z-test t-curve motivation 1-sample t-test As a reminder, you can view…
The “Hypothesis Tests Visualised” Project
Howdy! I’m excited to announce an exciting project that I’ve been slowly working on for the last few weeks. I’ve been teaching data science for a few years now, and in my experience, I feel that hypothesis tests are a conceptually challenging topic for students. I think a lot of…
Index Laws (Part II)
A LONG time ago, I wrote the post titled “Index Laws (Part I)”, where I developed a conceptual basis for the index law for multiplication, namely: Why write on this topic? I wrote a description in the linked post above describing my motivation in-depth, however,…
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