Djoerd 'admin' Hiemstra @hiemstra@mastodon.utwente.nl

YES! Afgelopen zaterdag ben ik Nederlands Studenten Kampioen OCR geworden bij de Tough Ten Miles in Tilburg! Hier komen wat foto's voor een sfeer impressie :)

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#oorah
#nsk
#ocr
#toughtenmiles
#dmm
#utwente

Alumni Gathering London, July 9th: Imperial meets 4TU: https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/alumni/events/!/2018/7/74457/alumni-gathering-london-july-9th-imperial-meets-4tu

Queer design: products beyond traditional gender norms https://www.utoday.nl/news/65693/queer-design-products-beyond-traditional-gender-norms

The University of Twente launches technological entrepreneurship MOOC https://www.utwente.nl/en/news/!/2018/7/71666/the-university-of-twente-launches-technological-entrepreneurship-mooc

Duckduckgo does not know how many people use its search engine, and that's good.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-use-DuckDuckGo/answer/Gabriel-Weinberg

I'm still thinking how potential follow recommendations could be improved. The problem is that you want something that would be useful to someone brand new.

I realized triadic closures are a red herring because due to missing data for remote users it would be heavily skewed towards local users.

Could we maybe tally who brand new people *do* follow (except for admins) and recommend those?

The Mastodon API has a new endpoint for retrieving follow recommendations based on triadic closures. #REDI

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/7918

Updated the PR with a second commit: Track positive engagements with people you're not following so they show up in the suggestions too https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/7918

I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten

Safe the date: Meeting on Ethics, Privacy, Transparency and Bias in Information Retrieval to take place on 5 September 2018 in Sheffield. More details in the next few weeks.

Every Data Scientist should read Weapons of Distruction by Cathy O’Neil. She warns for the fact that mathematics is misused to turn subjectivity in Big Data into objective facts. She has many examples that will frighten you.

If there were real alternatives to the big tech giants, users could vote with their feet by leaving a platform or service that isn’t working for them.

That freedom to choose is vital to free speech, privacy, and innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/competition-civil-liberties-and-internet-giants

It's #FollowFriday! Here are some #alternatives to follow:

@cloutstream CloutStream: An open source federated alternative to LinkedIn, just launched its new website

@Chocobozzz Chocobozzz: Lead developer of #PeerTube, the ethical alternative to YouTube

@Purism Purism: Makers of privacy-oriented computers and the upcoming Librem5 smartphone

@fdroidorg F-Droid: The open source alternative to Google Play

@krita Krita: Open source painting software aimed at artists and illustrators

#FF #FFed

Awesome projects by the second year students of the bachelor Creative Technology at the University of Twente!

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, @proto

#utwente
#create

That moment when you want to work and BlackBoard is under maintenance.

@hiemstra @arjenpdevries no redirect, just bouncing mails?! Ridiculous