Djoerd Hiemstra @djoerd@idf.social
Professor of Federated Search at Radboud University. Formerly known as @hiemstra
Joined Apr 2018
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so github is like pastebin with more steps
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Gezichtsherkenning, mag dat? Helaas, zo werkt ethiek niet https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/12/04/gezichtsherkenning-mag-dat-helaas-zo-werkt-ethiek-niet-a3982702
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Massive Privatization of the Internet: The ".ORG" Top-Level-Domain has been Privatized. Ethos Capital announced increased costs for .org sites at a rate of 10% per year. Every year. https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/29/ethos-paid-1-135-billion-for-org/
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Dutch antennas unfolded behind the moon - https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/imapp/astrophysics/2019/dutch-antennas-unfolded-behind-moon/
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Poster by @somtoe: Predicting Semantic Labels of Text Regions in Heterogeneous Document Images.
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Hosein Azarbonyad presents approaches for transferring a model for Commitment Detection in Email from one domain to another. #DIR2019
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Sien mentions this recent (2019) CIIR survey on Neural ReRanking models. #dir2019
A Deep Look into neural ranking models for information retrieval - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306457319302390
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At the Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam for DIR 2019.
Many brief talks to share IR progress (presented at international conferences and/or journals) within the Dutch community.
Nice idea by Rennings, Moraes, and Hauff: axiomatic datasets constructed specifically to measure what axioms (neural) models adhere to:
https://chauff.github.io/documents/publications/ECIR2019-rennings.pdf #DIR2019
Dietmar Jannach asks the right questions: what should we really measure when researching recommender systems? More Kaggle-style leaderboard chasing? #DIR2019
On my way to DIR lightning edition! http://dir2019.nl
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"your privacy is important to us" said the company, without giving you a "disable all this spyware crap" button, and making 90% of the spyware crap opt-out
Oh, and Firefox prevented a pop-up window! Cute...
The content being course information, no third-party content as you might expect (which is just as bad, but at least you can blame that third party)
Dark UI patterns on Radboud U. Website: "Content is not available because cookies are not allowed."
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"Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees"
Jeff Bezos makes 2.5 million times his routinely maimed fulfillment center employees getting urinary tract infections holding their pee to make box-moving quotas while permanently destroying their backs.
Professor of Federated Search at Radboud University. Formerly known as @hiemstra
Joined Apr 2018
