Dennis Soemers
dennissoemers.bsky.social
Dennis Soemers
@dennissoemers.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Maastricht University.

Research interests: AI, RL, games. Tic-Tac-Toe aficionado. Opinions my own, but should be everyone's.

Anon feedback: admonymous.co/dennis-soemers
disagree with this flowchart. Well, I definitely prefer if we get drunk (at a conference or elsewhere) sooner rather than later, btu regardless, call me Dennis
What to call your prof
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you sign up, and you review any papers I assigned to you, and later we see each other in person (at a conference or whatever), I will pay for one beer per paper I assigned to you.
As Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) grows in number of submissions, we are looking for more reviewers and action editors. Please sign up!

Only one paper to review at a time and <= 6 per year, reviewers report greater satisfaction than reviewing for conferences!
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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VACANCY:
Lecturer (0,1 fte) in Computer Science
Faculty of Advanced Computing Sciences Maastricht University
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@maastrichtu.bsky.social

@xai-at-dacs.bsky.social

@taimlab.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #computerscience #assistantprofessor #lecturer

*PLEASE APPLY BY OCTOBER 5TH*
September 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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VACANCY:
Assistant Professor in AI in Digital Agriculture and Sustainability.
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Professor Christopher Brewster and his team are looking for a highly qualified computer scientist with a broad passion for food and agriculture, environment, and biodiversity.

@cawbrewster.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Hello everyone 👋 Good news!

🚨 Our Game Theory & Multiagent Systems team at Google DeepMind is hiring! 🚨

.. and we have not one, but two open positions! One Research Scientist role and one Research Engineer role. 😁

Please repost and tell anyone who might be interested!

Details in thread below 👇
September 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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CALL FOR PAPERS! We are accepting papers for Computational Techniques for Games Heritage, a special issue of the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage! See below for more info or reach out if you have questions! dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...
September 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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data visualization is my passion
August 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS.

Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...
eurips.cc
eurips.cc
A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
eurips.cc
July 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Excited to introduce the first version of Ludax, a domain-specific language for board games that compiles directly into JAX code!

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.22609
Code: github.com/gdrtodd/ludax

Work led by NYU's Graham Todd (not on bluesky).
July 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The NeurIPS paper checklist corroborates the bureaucratic theory of statistics.
Standard error of what now?
The NeurIPS checklist corroborates the bureaucratic theory of statistics.
www.argmin.net
July 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Does everyone in your community agree on some folk knowledge that isn’t published anywhere? Put it in a paper! It’s a pretty valuable contribution
November 26, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Next: Christof Seiler: Prediction Intervals at the Tour de France

Using AI to predict calorie consumption, to plan meals for cyclists. Used variables such as race type, BMI, weather etc.

We also can calculate and correct for spillover in flow cytometry data.
June 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Spent the day at an excellent symposium, followed by a Ph.D. defense of Tom Pepels in Maastricht, whose thesis was titled Monte Carlo Tree Search is a Work in Progress.

www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/siks-...

Want to see me in a formal gown and a bow tie? Look down 👇 1/2
SIKS-DACS Symposium: Advances in Game AI and its Applications - Events - Maastricht UniversityMaastricht UniversityMaastricht UniversityMaastricht University
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Yes -- change your search bar's default to append &udm=14 to your search: See www.wikihow.com/Turn-Off-Goo...

Ironically discovered via AI-generated snippet
May 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Can I in any way turn off these stupid AI-generated responses to my google searches????
May 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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🎓 PhD position available!

Join our interdisciplinary research project on causal agent-based modelling!

🔍 Looking for curious minds with a MSc degree (or near to completing one) in CS/AI/related fields.
📍 Location: Utrecht University, NL
🗓️ Deadline: 16 June 2025
📩 Info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
PhD Position in Causal Agent-based Modelling of Complex Social Systems
Join this exciting interdisciplinary research project at the Centre for Complex Systems Studies and study causal agent-based modelling!
www.uu.nl
May 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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🍺🧠 Pint of Science Maastricht 2025: UM researchers take to the pubs – science beyond the lecture hall!

From 19–21 May, join 6 themed nights in Maastricht and Venlo: real stories, no jargon – just great science in great pubs.

🎟 €8 incl. drink
🔗 www.pintofscience.nl
#PintOfScience
May 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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We have a new open position for a PhD student to work on Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Security!

Check out vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... for details, and feel free to contact me for any info as well.

Application deadline: May 11

Reposts much appreciated.
April 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We have a new open position for a PhD student to work on Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Security!

Check out vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... for details, and feel free to contact me for any info as well.

Application deadline: May 11

Reposts much appreciated.
April 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM