Computer scientist #CS & entrepreneur, Information Retrieval #IR and Databases #DB
Indie music ๐ธ
Radboud University, Nijmegen & Spinque, Utrecht NL
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Computer scientist #CS & entrepreneur, Information Retrieval #IR and Databases #DB
Indie music ๐ธ
Radboud University, Nijmegen & Spinque, Utrecht NL
#nobot
๐ bridged from โ https://idf.social/@arjen, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
A true open science spirit:
"Control over the information of the Institution rests with the Institution"
WTF
Rechter zet streep door huwelijksakte vanwege ChatGPT-toespraak babs - https://nos.nl/l/2597239
AI as Normal Technology
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology
I recommend it to everyone for understanding the opportunities for AI beyond the hype and hyperbole.
The question remains if AI is worth all [โฆ]
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/days-gone-by/
"Artificial intelligence has, no doubt, sucked all the proverbial oxygen out of the proverbial room in education and education technology. It is not just the top of the year-end list; it is the list."
Not an optimistic read, but [โฆ]
https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/kunstmatige-intelligentie-heeft-wel-heel-veel-nevenschade~bc1214b3/
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/05/europa-moet-kleur-bekennen-over-venezuela-a4916833?gift_token=4916833%7E1768230292%7E8rM-TGNgT02CuZE7vshjTQ%7E2pIhRxIfoqafWDiAqZnEBQPPnNHHjqFlavM_Ce7CDXM
Excellent opinion piece by international law professor Andrรฉ Nollkaepiers on how [โฆ]
- - Annalena Baerbock - -
https://www.aninews.in/news/world/us/the-un-charter-is-not-optional-unga-president-annalena-baerbock-on-venezuela-crisis20260104174739/
Close Your Eyes Hind
A poignant story that is even more saddening because it's not made up. The cruel reality of Gaza.
Everyone in the movie theatre was quietely stuck, in their chairs, for at least a full minute longer [โฆ]
"Advancing frontier models today requires making a lot of manual decisions and taking a data-centric AI approach to engineering the data we use to train our models."
No free lunch!
https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-de-dag/dick-schoof-nog-in-functie-en-nu-al-compleet-vergeten-een-unieke-prestatie~b9371a21/
"Denk niet aan hen, denk aan hem. Opdat wij alles vergeten." [โฆ]
Het is maar goed dat PVV + NSC + BBB + VVD + ambtenaar Schoof alweer bijna achter ons ligt.
Reposted by P. de Vries
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Probably!
We (@sachindhke, Faisal Mahmud, Sandra Siby, and I) have a new paper appearing at PETS (the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium) next July that looks at government websites from [โฆ]
[Original post on discuss.systems]
It took a little effort to check this, but by going through our uni library I can access ACM articles as premium user.
The screenshot (of a paper by Carsten Eickhoff) [โฆ]
[Original post on idf.social]
Reposted by P. de Vries, Debora Weber-Wulff
"Do not interpret measurement error as super-human effectiveness."
(Adding the warning that "you will look silly if you do.")
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/lectures.html
Reposted by P. de Vries
NRC spreekt ambtenaren off the record en schrijft een reconstructie over Wiersma, BBB, onkunde, en een groot pakket van vertragingstactieken van de minister. Stukken niet lezen, laten verdwijnen, obstructie bij vergaderingen, en uitnodigen externen zonder [โฆ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2IJy-F_n7E
by Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake
author of the book https://thetechcoup.com/
Public online lecture in the excellent series to celebrate 25 years of IPN:
https://ict-research.nl/ipn-colloquia/
Spotify's summer PhD internship vacancies are out!
If you are authorized to work in the UK: https://lnkd.in/eEqPWJJf
If you are authorized to work in the US: https://lnkd.in/efQ-pPQ9
Just in case!
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