Djoerd Hiemstra @hiemstra@mastodon.utwente.nl

Datashards provide a distrubuted private global storage system. Nice!

https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/datashards-rationale.md

The CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory (VLO) is a federated search engine for content shared by the CLARIN knowledge centres.

https://vlo.clarin.eu

Collega Tom Heskes op nationale radio voor de national cursus AI voor kinderen.

https://www.nporadio1.nl/spraakmakers/onderwerpen/511567-is-het-belangrijk-om-jong-te-leren-wat-kunstmatige-intelligentie-is

@Erik

Current book:
- Jesper Stein: Solo (🇳🇱)
Last finished:
- Dan Brown: Oorsprong (🇳🇱; original title: "Origin")

#booksofaugust2019

New York Times recently switched from tracking-based behavioral ads to contextual and geographic ads—and it did not experience any decrease in advertising revenue.

https://digiday.com/media/gumgumtest-new-york-times-gdpr-cut-off-ad-exchanges-europe-ad-revenue/

I made it to Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/63nItp2YR57JYGM4EDPKWJ?si=OOejHsVUSaez0H8gUuICqg

I'll kick it off. Would like to make it a monthly recurring topic!

Current book:
- Jim Stolze: Algoritmisering, wen er maar aan. (🇳🇱)
Last finished:
- Jelmer Mommers: Hoe gaan we dit uitleggen? (🇳🇱)
Recommended for september:
- Jelmer Mommers: Hoe gaan we dit uitleggen? (🇳🇱)
Or English:
- Hans Rosling: Factfulness (30 languages, 🇸🇪🇬🇧+++)

#booksofaugust2019

Congrats @somtoe for graduatig cum laude on labelling document images!

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2019/somto-enendu-graduates-cum-laude-on-labelling-document-images/

Congrats @ties for successfully defending your work on visualization recommendation!

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2019/ties-de-kock-graduates-on-visualization-recommendation/

#Mastodon v2.9.3 is out: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.3

Any obstacle course runners looking for an instance? Do you know obstacle runners who might be interested in the fediverse? OCR.social registration is open (and free)!

Twente present bij de Pride in Amsterdam!

Met de boot van Stonewall Café Enschede!

❤️💛💚💙💜

I believe conferences should have a "telepresence chair". #CHI is getting there (and I expect them to)

https://chi2019.acm.org/for-attendees/remote-attendance/

Systems participating in the open source information retrieval replicability challenge. #sigir #sigir2019

#SIGIR best paper: Variance Reduction in Gradient Exploration for Online Learning to Rank.

https://doi.org/10.1145/3331184.3331264

AFIRM 2020: ACM #SIGIR #SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search

http://sigir.org/afirm2020/

#sigIR has a new logo, designed by Esther Smit

ICTIR 2020 in Stavanger, Norway and CIKM 2020 in Galway, Ireland.
#sigir2019

New committee on stage, the old on the slide. Thanks! #sigir2019

Cordelia Schmid presents impressise video understanding results. #sigir2019