Arjen P. de Vries @arjen@idf.social
Computer scientist and entrepeneur specialised in Information Retrieval and Databases. Indie music 🎸
Admin idf.social instance
Dear all,
For now, I will keep the site closed for registrations; but everyone can independently invite people to join using the following link to generate an invite:
If you know someone who wants to join this instance, then please do give them an invite!
Consider the instance open for those who know anyone on IDF.social.
"Sense of community" and an initial seed of some 40 IR researchers should be enough to keep those spammers out of here and still grow the club!
Computer scientist 👨🏫 with main focus on Information Retrieval 📄
Also interested in Data Science / Big Data 💾
In the previous millennium 
a PhD on Multimedia Databases 🎥 (Yes that was a respectable research topic once upon a time pre-birdsite!)
#sigir is my academic home.
Entrepreneur: co-founder of #spinque (spinque.com)
IDF.social admin.
Loves indie music: follow me at @arjenpdevries if you are interested in gigs, #nowplaying events, etc.
Inaugural toots on idf.social using a photo of lunch with Nick Belkin after attending the now Dr. Hugo Huurdeman defense.
See also:
http://timelessfuture.com/phd
PhD students (and supervisors), we extended the deadline for the FDIA 2018 - Future Directions in Information Access Symposium. New deadline is August 5, 2018. Please have a look at our CfP: https://easychair.org/cfp/fdia2018 #informationretrieval
New summer edition of BCS Informer - http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/. Enjoy!
Out now - IJDL Volume 19, Issue 2-3, September 2018
Focused Issue on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries https://link.springer.com/journal/799/19/2/page/1
CfP: Workshop on Ethics, Privacy, Transparency and Bias in Information Retrieval, organised by IR Group of @InfoSchoolSheff http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2018/08/cfp-workshop-on-ethics-privacy-transparency-and-bias-in-information-retrieval-in-sheffield/
Publiceren anno 2018: nepuitgevers, hoge publicatiekosten, en de druk om veel te publiceren...
Interesting.
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier for verifiable, "self-sovereign" digital identity. DIDs are fully under the control of the DID subject, independent from any centralized registry, identity provider, or certificate authority. DIDs are URLs that relate a DID subject to means for trustable interactions with that subject. DIDs resolve to DID Documents — simple documents that describe how to use that specific DID.
I think the idea that a new Mastodon user is supposed to pick an instance based on affinity/interest is the number one thing that prevents people from joining. I think there needs to be a retooling of the messaging to make it about trust.
People don't join email services because of affinity. They do because they trust. They trust Google will be around for a long time. Or that hushmail won't sell their data. Or that Hotmail is easy to use. Etc etc.
You can now challenge someone to game of #chess over toots! https://castling.club/ 💪
It's actually a standalone server in the #fediverse, implementing #activitypub all by itself. 😃
#2028 "Complex Numbers" Show more
“How To Completely Delete Your Twitter Likes”
https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/how-to-completely-delete-your-twitter-likes-5a41c35aefb8?source=rss-e2e9846bc6c8------2
Alsjeblieft ABP pensioenfonds, stop met het investeren van ons geld in teerzandolie. #NietMetMijnGeld
Which brought me to a huge list of "useless" uses of shell commands I use all the time 😅
http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
Gimme that award!!
UNIX cmd `cat` can gain speed using #linux kernel's "splice" function https://matthias-endler.de/2018/fastcat/
File under "nice to know" :-)
@Ian Thanks, found it:
https://tac.nist.gov/2018/SRIE/
Interesting!
Call for participation: LWDA 2018, the joint conference of the German Computer Science Society SIGs on Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence and Databases, will take place August 22-24, 2018 in Mannheim, Germany. It also hosts our 2018 Information Retrieval workshop, organised by the German Information Retrieval Special Interest Group. https://www.uni-mannheim.de/lwda-2018/
I'm a computer scientist with a main focus on all things Information Retrieval in research as well as industry. I'm senior lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton, UK (some might know the airport), trying not to be too distracted by academic administration and the 'joys' the looming Brexit brings with it. In my work I'm aiming to bring together cognitive/user and system-oriented models and have this weird idea that quantum probabilities might help here. #introductions
Interesting questions that make you think about search relevance by Daniel Tunkelang.
Golden oldie:
Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control.
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/05/the_eternal_value_of.html