Arjen P. de Vries @arjen@idf.social

[CfP] SustaiNLP: First Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing https://sites.google.com/view/sustainlp2020

Remember when a Google #search used to lead you somewhere?

Now it increasingly just keeps you on Google. In fact, Google results take up 62.6% of the first screen of search results in a sample of 15,000 searches.

#Google is building a walled garden that encompasses some of the most accessed information on the internet with no recourse for businesses who are suddenly finding themselves on the wrong side, cut off from their users.

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors

#privacyMatters #searchengine

Oh thanks #Google #Spreadsheet #autocomplete

#COVID19

Blog post! Mastodon 3.2:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2020/08/mastodon-3.2/

Share with your friends!

MARGE: Pre-training via paraphrasing by #SIGIR2020 keynote speaker Luke Zettlemoyer.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15020

5. Ignore results for collections when there are no baseline from independent research;
6. Test collections wear out! Expected maximum result increases with number of runs (on see leaderboards! -- Carterette's SIGIR paper)
7. Conferences and journals need to accept papers with "null" results. (to prevent the busy beaver / the p-hackers) Reproducibility is important: Publish your code and data
8. Evaluation initiatives are important (but they should only run proper measures and methods)

Norbert Fuhr's recommendations for gaining scientific knowledge from experiments:

1. Do not use MRR or MAP;
2. Instead of relative improvements, regard the effect size!
3. For multiple significance tests, use a correction, such as Bonferoni or Tukey's HSD (NB comparing only to the 2nd best method does not help!)
4. There are no significant improvements for re-usable test collections! (hypotheses have to be formulated before the work)
#SIGIR2020

Towards better experimentation! #SIGIR2020

#Comet #NEOWISE over #Stonehenge
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200714.html

#APOD

Jelmer Mommers: Terugkeren naar het ‘normaal’ van vóór corona is waanzin. We mogen het niet laten gebeuren - https://decorrespondent.nl/11378/terugkeren-naar-het-normaal-van-voor-corona-is-waanzin-we-mogen-het-niet-laten-gebeuren/1247046652082-0f77f66c

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In retrospect it's weird that EdgeHTML turned out to be this brief transitional engine that only existed between 2015-2019. Even Opera Mini and UC Browser seem to have lasted longer. KaiOS may last longer still.

Pinafore v1.18.0 released! https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/releases/tag/v1.18.0 (thread)