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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:

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!

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Arjen P. de Vries  

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Computer scientist ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ with main focus on Information Retrieval ๐Ÿ“„

Also interested in Data Science / Big Data ๐Ÿ’พ

In the previous millennium :mastodon: a PhD on Multimedia Databases ๐ŸŽฅ (Yes that was a respectable research topic once upon a time pre-birdsite!)

is my academic home.

Entrepreneur: co-founder of (spinque.com)

IDF.social admin.

Loves indie music: follow me at @arjenpdevries if you are interested in gigs, events, etc.

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Knowledge frees humanity.

Thank you, corpus of Visual Metaphores!

vismet.org/VisMet/

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Inaugural toots on idf.social using a photo of lunch with Nick Belkin after attending the now Dr. Hugo Huurdeman defense.

See also:
timelessfuture.com/phd

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When you thought you caught up...

Google releasing mT5: A massively-multilingual version of T5 that supports over ๐Ÿ’ฏ languages! mT5 was pre-trained on a multilingual version of C4 and achieves SoTA on many cross-lingual NLP tasks.

๐Ÿ“œPre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2010.11934
๐Ÿ’พCode/models: goo.gle/mt5

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Interesting uses of Google Trends data to understand election themes throughout the years.

truth-and-beauty.net/projects/

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arXiv Information Retrieval  

Flexible retrieval with NMSLIB and FlexNeuART. (arXiv:2010.14848v1 [cs.IR]) arxiv.org/abs/2010.14848

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Djoerd Hiemstra  

An Open Access Strategy for Dutch Research Institutes

djoerdhiemstra.com/2020/an-ope

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Jasper (Free Julian Assange!)  

Mozilla Firefox: Spyware Level: High ๐Ÿ˜•
spyware.neocities.org/articles

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PhD student Ivan Veul vertelt op radio Nijmegen over zijn onderzoek naar wat we mogen verwachten van Big Tech partijen als Google, en hoe hij voor zijn onderzoek een (online!) burgerdialoog heeft georganiseerd over de toekomst van het internet, met honderd mensen.

Interview:
soundcloud.com/rn7online/promo

Meer informatie over Ivan's onderzoek:
radboudrecharge.nl/nl/artikel/

Meer informatie over de burgerdialoog:
ru.nl/nieuws-agenda/nieuws/vm/

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Robert van Bregt  

Save the web, freely. Wallabag: a self hostable application for saving web pages wallabag.org/en

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Hackernews  

Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for rule-breaking - theregister.com/2020/10/27/fac

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Djoerd Hiemstra  

Tweede Kamer wil bindend studieadvies afschaffen op initiatief van GroenLinks

nu.nl/politiek/6086581/tweede-

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Matomo (Piwik)  

To all Matomo 4 beta testers and users out there, we'd love to hear your thoughts!

Your feedback is greatly valued as it'll help us refine Matomo 4 for the November release ๐Ÿ˜Š

Please share what you've learnt and experienced here: forum.matomo.org/t/help-testin

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Arjen P. de Vries  

"We are asking Spotify to raise the average streaming royalty from $.0038 to a penny per stream."

unionofmusicians.org/justice-a

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ymfa.github.io/phd-2048/

Finish your PhD by 2048

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IR Journal  

Special issue on learning from user interactions link.springer.com/10.1007/s107

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Djoerd Hiemstra  

B C, Before Computers by Stephen Robertson: On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data

openbookpublishers.com/product

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De Correspondent  

Evgeny Morozov: Tegen dit verhaal over 5G kan geen samenzweringstheorie op - decorrespondent.nl/11735/tegen

[:tw: tweets.newsbots.eu/dcrrspndnt/ โ€” #bot]

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Claes Wallin ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ  
#MozillaHubs :

> Hubs is a virtual collaboration platform that runs in your browser. With Hubs you can create your own 3D spaces with a single click. Invite others to join using a URL. No installation or app store required.

โ€Œ hubs.mozilla.com/docs/welcome.โ€ฆ

Hubs + #ActivityPub = #ImmersSpace

web.immers.space/

> The metaverse is here: an immersive Web full of social virtual and augmented reality experiences. [ . . . ] we dream of a democratized new era of the Web where creators own their content, users own their data, and no single entity exhibits undue influence on the community as a whole.

I knew I just had to wait around long enough and someone would get around to implementing it. ๐Ÿ˜€
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Djoerd Hiemstra  

When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube. A bug? Yeah, right!

theregister.com/2020/10/19/goo

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Djoerd Hiemstra  

Bisschoppen ontnemen de universiteit het predicaat "katholiek"...

trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/nij

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Matrix.org  

RT @dinodaizovi@twitter.com

Combating abuse is not incompatible with E2EE:

WhatsApp: usenix.org/conference/enigma20

Matrix: matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/com

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status

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Call for Papers

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing | Theme issue on intelligent systems for tackling online harms
springer.com/journal/779/updat

Research contributions on misinformation- and harm-aware intelligent systems:
* assisting users in making informed decisions in the context of online misinformation, hate speech and other forms of online harms;
* improving detection methods and diffusion modelling as well as addressing concerns such as social biases, fairness and explainability.

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Mastodon

The "unofficial" Information Retrieval Mastodon Instance.

Goal: Make idf.social a viable and valuable social space for anyone working in Information Retrieval and related scientific research.

Everyone welcome but expect some level of geekiness on the instance and federated timelines.

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