Arjen P. de Vries @arjen@idf.social

IDF.social is your home if you know:

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and... everyone else!

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:

https://idf.social/invites

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!

#introductions ℹ

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.

Knowledge frees humanity.

Thank you, corpus of Visual Metaphores!

http://www.vismet.org/VisMet/

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

Another new music trial: a more stable and more reliable list (on spotify) with indie music released last week that has gained some traction.

Enjoy and let me know what you think!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LKyCrPA1EK6k2eAkysLji?si=ZBB89LAySoG3GcA8po2Nrw

@djoerd doesn't look like they chose at all :-)

https://die-partei.social/@hackernews/105807033327137600

Naomi Klein in The Intercept: "... human rights advocates are warning that India is on the knife edge of terrible violence. [...] Through it all, the giants of Silicon Valley have stayed conspicuously silent, their famed devotion to free expression, as well as their newfound commitment to battling hate speech and conspiracy theories, is, in India, nowhere to be found.

India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech
https://theintercept.com/2021/02/27/india-climate-activists-twitter-google-facebook/

Something is wrong here...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2021/01/28/this-12-billion-company-is-getting-rich-off-students-cheating-their-way-through-covid/

A brief write-up of patching the kernel on Fedora Core:

https://arjenp.dev/2021/02/26/kernel-patch.html