Djoerd Hiemstra @hiemstra@mastodon.utwente.nl

Bandcamp? Why, What's next, NFTs?

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/

Felipe Moraes Gomes defends PhD thesis on Collaborative Search.

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2022/felipe-moraes-gomes-defends-phd-thesis-on-collaborative-search/

15 alternatives of Google Analytics, recommended by the CNIL (en français)

https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-solutions-pour-les-outils-de-mesure-daudience

Plan S for Shock:

https://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/m/10.5334/bcq/

The 5th International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria

http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/

I got an SQL shirt!

Course material for Human-Centered Machine Learning, a course taught by Dong Nguyen at Utrecht University

https://github.com/dongpng/human-centered-ml

The World Data League is an "international non-profit competition that gathers the best minds in the Data Science field to develop long-lasting solutions for social impact challenges"

https://www.worlddataleague.com/

What is a PhD thesis? by Michael Ekstrand

https://md.ekstrandom.net/blog/2022/02/dissertation

We're hiring: A PhD Candidate for Software Correctness. The work will target high-level programming languages that are "only" strings in your host language, such as SQL and regular expressions. #Vacancy

https://www.ru.nl/english/working-at/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1183608

Whyyyyyyyy??? (#Brightspace added a "more" button, so I have to do one extra click for each and every student assignment)

Let's see if we can open up this reviewing stuff a bit:

https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Djoerd_Hiemstra1

Ada Lovelace, Margaret Hamilton, and Franciska de Jong (Alice & Eve exhibition Women in Computer Science)

You can still register for Session 3 and 4 of the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop #DIR2021½

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2022/dutch-belgian-information-retrieval-workshop-2021/

There's a new Zeta-Alpha "Best in AI" blog post out, and I love it!

https://www.zeta-alpha.com/post/best-in-ai-february-2022-edition-multimodality-unsupervised-neural-ir-convnets-and-more

Waar Freedom Internet voor staat:

https://freedom.nl/over-freedom/waar-freedom-voor-staat

History of the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop #DIR at LIACS:

https://tmr.liacs.nl/DIR.php

DIR 2021½, the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop will be on-line for 4 weeks in a row:

https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/SEA-Search-Engines-Amsterdam/events/283554324/

De handleiding Privacyvriendelijk instellen van Google Analytics van de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens is aangepast: "Let op: gebruik Google Analytics mogelijk binnenkort niet toegestaan". #NoGA

https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/sites/default/files/atoms/files/handleiding_privacyvriendelijk_instellen_google_analytics.pdf

Prolific is a crowd sourcing platform that focuses on research and high quality results. Seems a better fit to, for instance, interactive search experiments than Amazon's Mechanical Turk or FigureEight:

https://www.prolific.co