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@suzan 🤔

https://mobile.twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/1105770506807140352

I'm trying to get the page locked because some jerk keeps adding "Yachts".
https://xkcd.com/2123/

Teaching An Old Dog A New Trick | Chris Kamphuis
https://www.chriskamphuis.com/2019/03/06/teaching-an-old-dog-a-new-trick.html

Chris Kamphuis (at RU) reproduced the techniques from our (CWI) IR on DB paper on the Robust collection, using Anserini as preprocessing pipeline. First in a (planned) series of blog posts that revisit advantages of a DB backend to realize IR ranking. So, more to come!!

Today's Dilbert strip is just brilliant 😂

"The Simulated World": https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-03-03

The ‘Fairness and Transparency, towards responsible data science’ symposium on 5 March, from 13.00 to 17.00 in Leiden has free entry. Please register in advance at:

https://www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2019/02/data-science-symposium-5-march

Food for thought: deep work, or, is email making professors stupid.

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/is-email-making-professors-stupid

Exploring the Limits of Language Modeling:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02410

Student survey data from a large public university in Australia shows bias against women and teachers with non-English speaking backgrounds.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0209749

Nice programme for the ECIR 2019 Industry Day:

https://ecir2019.org/industry-day/

WSDM 2019 Proceedings online!

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3289600

Guacamole Cat!

Hey Google! Een persoonlijk verhaal over datahonger. Door Pim Lindeman en Martijn Bekhuis.
https://www.tubantia.nl/redactie/google/lr/
#longread

Preliminary #ECIR2019 program available at http://ecir2019.org/program/ for detailed sessions and other events @ECIR2019! Please note that we may make minor adjustments in the upcoming weeks.

@arjen I'm so glad I moved away from Mendeley a few years ago. I wrote a little PHP interface to manage a .bib file - https://github.com/christianp/bib-site - which powers http://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/