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IDF.social is your home if you know:
\[
\textit{idf} = - \log \frac{n_t}{N}
\]
and... everyone else!
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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!
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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.
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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
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Where To Buy GNU+Linux #Preinstalled Computers
Sharing is very appreciated.
Dell 
🇺🇸
https://www.dell.com/linux
Entroware 
🇬🇧
https://www.entroware.com
Lenovo 
🇨🇳
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops
FSF 
🇺🇸 🇪🇺 
https://ryf.fsf.org
Purism 
🇺🇸
https://puri.sm
System76 
🇺🇸
https://system76.com
Curated List of #GNU #Linux Preloaded PCs 
https://linuxpreloaded.com
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Print an access_log with indicator chart bars under each request line to show the size of the data transfer using log() to keep things "in control".
awk -v cols=$(tput cols) '{e=int(log($10)*5); print("\x1b[42m" substr($0, 1, e) "\x1b[0m" substr($0, e+1) )}' access_log | less -SR
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Donald #Trump has launched a "new" social media service called #TruthSocial*. However, it's actually just a #Mastodon server.
#misinformation #fediblock #SocialMedia #Trumpeltier
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump
*LMAO
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'reclame is de kunstmest van het consumptie-kapitalisme'
Dertien argumenten tegen reclame - VPRO Tegenlicht - VPRO
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/lees/artikelen/argumenten-tegen-reclame.html
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Interesting: IndexNow is an open standard by Microsoft and Yandex that lets sites push updates to a search index when the site changed.
Arjen P. de Vries
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Pushing code to GitHub and having GitHub Actions build it on Windows is easier than writing code on Windows.
Arjen P. de Vries
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Siteimprove Analytics is another Google Analytics alternative that is used by several Dutch municipalities. #NoGA
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International Tell Someone You Love That Excel Is Not The Right Medium For Forms Day
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The 4th Research Report of the @Wikimedia Research team is out! An an overview of the team's latest developments, that highlights existing and new work, introduces new staff, and details new collaborations, considerations and trends to watch.
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First CfP: ACM SIGIR 2022: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval https://www.lists.utwente.nl/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=SIGIR;1cc4ae9a.2110
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Exposing Query Identification for Search Transparency. (arXiv:2110.07701v1 [cs.IR]) http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07701
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pro-tip: if you ever get a bit.ly link that you don't trust, add a "+" to the end of the URL so you can be taken to the info page instead
Ionica Smeets legt uit hoe dat nou ook weer zit met die error rates op Covid tests:
https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/is-de-kans-dan-echt-zo-groot-dat-je-zelftest-negatief-is-terwijl-je-toch-corona-hebt~bab4e353/
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Touché @ CLEF: Argument Retrieval.
Goede bijdrage:
Deuggleuf (v) zoekt originele kijk op woke debat na voorspelbare fittie met witte racist (m) - De Correspondent
https://decorrespondent.nl/12834/deuggleuf-v-zoekt-originele-kijk-op-woke-debat-na-voorspelbare-fittie-met-witte-racist-m/1635532695324-172dbce7
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What are the effects of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? Sebastian Schultheiß tried to find out: #OSSYM2021
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This year's Nobel laureate in physics Giorgio Parisi decided to use his platform to criticize governments' mission to increase GDP at all costs, "an objective that is in profound contrast with the arrest of climate change".
Afhankelijkheid kranten van Big Tech is wel degelijk een probleem
Media Journalisten geloven dat ze niet beïnvloed worden door techgiganten. Maar dat komt vooral omdat ze niet op de juiste plek kijken, schrijft Linda Duits.
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Ethics in search at the OSF: #OSSYM2021
