Prof.dr.ir. Arjen P. de Vries Timmers, @arjen@idf.social & professor of Information Retrieval at Radboud University & co-founder of Spinque, was here until 2022
Joined October 2008
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14 Dec 2022
I've had enough.
Colleagues posting their successes here, discussing cool findings, blogging events: thank you so much!
I'll miss your thoughts and reading suggestions dearly.
But, it's been too long that I supported this platform. There was no real alternative, but...
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14 Dec 2022
I've had enough.
Colleagues posting their successes here, discussing cool findings, blogging events: thank you so much!
I'll miss your thoughts and reading suggestions dearly.
But, it's been too long that I supported this platform. There was no real alternative, but...
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14 Dec 2022
This has changed!
Maybe I can convince more of you to start social presence on Mastodon, e.g. on my own idf.social instance (IR), at sigmoid.social (ML/AI) or akademienl.social (Dutch researchers), or any other instance. If so, drop me a note!
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14 Dec 2022
If not: see you in real life, somewhere, some time.
Staying to participate here would legitimise the platform, keep it sustained - I no longer want to do that.
I'll end my presence here with a small experiment.
So long, and thanks for all the fish!!
#riptwitter
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11 Dec 2022
A thread that gives great insight in the "prestigious" membership of the EU Academy of Sciences I was offered last week.
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The other day I got an email telling me I had received the signal honour of being elected to membership of the "EU Academy of Sciences"...
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@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
30 Nov 2022
We finally finished writing the description of ClueWeb22, the corpus with 10 billion web pages rich visual information: arxiv.org/abs/2211.15848. I hope you all find the description in the paper informative.
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@bcs_irsg Did you know how bad the advertisements are that feature on your website? Here's a screenshot. I'd recommend going without ads!
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BTW, that was triggered by looking at the winners of the Search Awards, congrats to all of you!
isquared.wordpress.com/2022/โฆ
@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Job opportunity. Prof Bart Jacobs & I are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher: Use of Bulk Data by Intelligence Services and Other State Bodies
akademienl.social/@Frederik_โฆ
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@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
2 Dec 2022
I am excited to announce that this year's ICT with Industry workshop features 6 cases from KB, VeiligheidNL, Textmetrics, RTL and Axini.
PhD students, this is your chance to delve into real-world #AI problems and make an impact.
Registration dl: Dec 4
@NWO_Science @lorentzcenter
18 Nov 2022
#computerscience | Last call ๐จ The registration deadline for ICTWI 2023 expires in a couple of days. If you want to combine solving scientific challenges proposed by professional organizations with networking opportunities, register before 22 November! lorentzcenter.nl/ict-with-inโฆ
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@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
30 Nov 2022
Big tech is on a freeze โโ but at @HuggingFace we are hiring interns!๐ค Just announced:
30 Nov 2022
We're hiring interns! ๐
If you're interested in working on cutting-edge problems in AI and ML, come take a look at our internship list: huggingface.co/blog/interns-โฆ
Hiring for many teams: Science, OSS, Gradio, Moonshot, ...
Hiring remotely, as well as in-person in many places! ๐ค
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RT for the thread
4 Aug 2022
Overall, itโs clear that Transformers can be trained to encode far-from-trivial learning algorithms, but *how* they encode such algorithms is still a wide open question.
See our paper for additional experiments and many more open questions [arxiv.org/abs/2208.01066]!
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PS: see next RT for thread
4 Aug 2022
LLMs can do in-context learning, but are they "learning" new tasks or just retrieving ones seen during training? w/ @shivamg_13, @percyliang, & Greg Valiant we study a simpler Q:
Can we train Transformers to learn simple function classes in-context? ๐งต
arxiv.org/abs/2208.01066
@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
13 Nov 2022
Science Twitter is valuable, but Twitter is going through an uncertain phase at the moment. Let's archive the Science Twitter follow graph using scientists' ORCIDs just in case. We built a tool for this -- it takes just one minute to contribute! opencheck.is/scitwitter
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@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
22 Nov 2022
I will work on real-world challenges to the safety of artificial intelligence and, in particular, safe reinforcement learning. The overall goal of my project is to advance the real-world deployment of reinforcement learning.
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@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
22 Nov 2022
I'm excited to announce that I received a Starting Grant from @ERC_Research for my project "DEUCE: Data-Driven Verification and Learning Under Uncertainty."
I will soon be opening multiple PhD and Postdoc positions.
#ERCStG #AI #machinelearning #verification #safety
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@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
22 Nov 2022
I'm so excited to start my project DEUCE: Data-driven Verification and Learning under Uncertainty
#ERCStG #AI #machinelearning #verification #artificialintelligence #safety
22 Nov 2022
More than 3,000 ambitious young researchers entered the 2022 competition for ERC Starting Grants.
๐ Congratulations to the 408 who were selected for ๐ช๐บ#EUfunded support this time!
Maybe you know one? List โก๏ธ bit.ly/StGlaureates
#ECR #PhDLife #PhDChat #AcademicChatter
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@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
18 Nov 2022
If you've downloaded your Twitter archive, note that the "Your archive.html" page renders links in your tweets as t .co links. If Twitter dies, so does the t .co redirection service.
See below to further preserve the links in your tweets.
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@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
19 Nov 2022
Twitter before Elon vs Twitter after Elon
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@arjen@idf.social ๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Huge thanks to @ian_soboroff, Ellen Voorhees, Angela Ellis, Pauline Truong, and others from NIST and all the track coordinators & participants for an awesome #TREC2022, see you all next year at #TREC2023!
I leave you with one of my fav. quotes from Ian..๐ #TRECisNOTaCOMPETITION
15 Aug 2021
The datasets were not built to be solved. They were built as tools to understand the problem and the systems we build to โsolveโ them.
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