suzan @suzan@idf.social

Our BIR big sister BIRNDL awaits your submissions. Deadline coming soon (May 15)!

CfP: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~birndl2019/

Submit to: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=birndl2019

@suzan @djoerd fun facts with Google News word vectors. This better not be true 😉

#LimeSurvey is a free open alternative to Google Forms.

They've just joined the Fediverse, you can follow them here:

@LimeSurvey

You can find out more about LimeSurvey on their official website:

https://www.limesurvey.org

It's free of charge for people who want to self-host it, and there's also a paid service for people who want managed hosting instead.

#GoogleForms #DeleteGoogle

Academics hide humans from #AI surveillance cameras with 2D prints
https://www.zdnet.com/article/academics-hide-humans-from-surveillance-cameras-with-2d-prints/

And because if you just leave it there, it's going to start contaminating things downstream even if no one touches it directly.
https://xkcd.com/2138/

Niet in mijn naam, door Bregje Dijksterhuis

https://www.advalvas.vu.nl/opinie/niet-mijn-naam

@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/