Djoerd Hiemstra @hiemstra@mastodon.utwente.nl

"Be Paranoid! (Someone is working on your idea right now!)"

https://github.com/lintool/guide/blob/master/paranoid.md

The #Nanquanu Institute does R&D into collective intelligence systems for a more creative, ecologically balanced and fair society.

https://nanquanu.org

Jaap Kamps from his ivory tower: Neural reranking is like using a T-Ford for most of the traveling, and a Ferrari for the last mile... Goal: Ferrari all the way; Means: make models sparse. #SIKS

Explainable Machine Learning summarized by Nauta & Seifert

Opening of the annual #SIKS day. Arno Siebes' book recommendations.

My student assistants are using https://kahoot.com for the Friday tutorials and I think they're great! 😄

What did my students learn from their first #DB lecture?

Academics must apply the three Rs to plane travel: replace if possible, reduce to the essential, and refine to make it worthwhile!

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/29/hypocrisy--guilt-jet-off-to-academic-conferences-plane-travel

Yikes, the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, #DIR2019 is sold out!

https://twitter.com/dir_2019/status/1188742942544015360

Ana Marasovic's notes on interpretability of machine learned models

https://github.com/amarasovic/interpretability-literature

1st International Symposium
on Open Search Technology next week in Garching, Germany.

https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/international-symposium-on-open-search-2019/

Pretty cool: Open Science Community Nijmegen (OSCN) has a Do-A-Thon on 24 October

https://openscience-nijmegen.nl

Universal Transformers: a transformer approach by Mostafa Dehghani and colleagues that also uses a recurrent feedback loop. Very interesting. #SIKS

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03819

Slides of @Claudia Hauff's SIKS course presentation "Machine Learning for #IR" available online!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jiu5ZkRJVrrFmwtGJg9elClDah-f1eKXCEkQXORrchk/edit?usp=sharing

Come do your PhD with me at Spinque in Utrecht, NL, on the topic of Professional Search:

http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dossier/p9.html

Fully funded, with three secondments in Vienna (Allan Hanbury), Milan (Gabriella Pasi) and Tennessee (Diane Kelly).

See the Marie-Curie ITN DOSSIER website for 14 more cool projects, all over Europe, including two in Leiden with Suzan Verberne.
http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dossier/phd_positions.html

We're hiring a PhD Candidate for Transfer Learning for Federated Search!

https://www.ru.nl/english/working-at/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1064653

#ClimateStrike

Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism: "Regulators need to intervene with tech monopolies", that's the line you should remember.

https://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/dighum/manifesto/

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