Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
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Computer scientist & computational linguist, working as a professor of artificial intelligence & as a director of my own consultancy, KnowledgeSpaces. Past lives include SAP, startup co-founder, Edinburgh PhD/PostDoc, Director of Research (Reuters London).
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andrewcopson.bsky.social
The wonderful writer and humanist #KurtVonnegut was born #OnThisDay, 1922. His enduring advice on living well remains as relevant as ever. Featured in the #littlebookofhumanism @thealiceroberts.bsky.social
Quote by Kurt Vonnegut in The Little Book of Humanism, by Andrew Copson and Alice Roberts. The quote reads: “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.” Photo of Kurt Vonnegut
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
leidner.bsky.social
Christmas unites. The soldiers understood what their leaders didn't: it makes no sense for a body's left arm to wage war against its right leg.
mattleys.bsky.social Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 1d
For Armistice Day, here's a letter my great uncle wrote to his old school in 1914 about the Christmas truce
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reposted by Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
womenintranslation.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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A photograph of the 6 titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. The books are stood on their side on a wooden table with wood panelling backdrop. The six titles photographed are: Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta) Evelyne Trouillot, Désirée Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press) Maylis Besserie, Francis Bacon's Nanny, translated from French (France) by Clíona Ní Ríordáin (The Lilliput Press) Krisztina Tóth, My Secret Life, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books) Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky, translated from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press UK) Han Kang, We Do Not Part, translated from Korean (South Korea) by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
leidner.bsky.social
Reuters: China's censor GAPP asks Cambridge University Press to withdraw academic articles about China from the Chinese Web.
www.reuters.com/article/worl...
#news #press #censorship #freedomofexpression #scholarship #research
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
leidner.bsky.social
Transparently funding a collective (including collectives of collectives):
opencollective.com - great for fundig open source development
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Transparently funding a collective (including collectives of collectives):
opencollective.com - create for fundig open source development
Raise, manage and disburse money with full transparency.
Open Collective is a legal and financial toolbox for groups. It’s a fundraising + legal status + money management platform for your community. What do you want to do?
opencollective.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
leidner.bsky.social
Menzner T. and J. L. Leidner (2026) "Bias explained: Generation of high-quality natural language explanations for classification decisions", Exp Sys Appl 299(D): 130115,

doi.org/10.1016/j.es... [open access].

#XAI #NLproc #NLP #LLM
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
leidner.bsky.social
Spatial Intelligence: The Next AI Frontier
drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words...
#spatial #AI #location #geo #geography #GIS
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
In 1950, when computing was little more than automated arithmetic and simple logic, Alan Turing asked a question that still reverberates today: can machines think?
drfeifei.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
leidner.bsky.social
Tim Menzner and I won best poster hon. mention at KDIR'25 in Marbella last week for our BiasRank paper.
www.hs-coburg.de/news/best-po... (in German)
#informationretrieval #bias #newssearch
Best Poster Award für Forschung zu faireren Suchmaschinen
(Pressestelle) Tim Menzner, Doktorand der Hochschule Coburg, wurde auf der [...]
www.hs-coburg.de
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
leidner.bsky.social
Menzner, T. and J. L. Leidner (forthcoming) "Bias-Mitigating News Search with BiasRank"
www.insticc.org/node/Technic...
Proc. KDIR 2025, Madeira, Spain, Friday, October 24th, 10:15-11:15
#newsbias #bias #propaganda #counterpropaganda #search
Technical Program
www.insticc.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
leidner.bsky.social
The German states with the most right-wing crimes are: Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 7,1 crimes [per 100.000 inhabitants]), followed by Thuringia (Thüringen, 6,3), Hamburg (6,2), Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt, 5).

#nationalsocialism #neveragain #crime
September 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Reiche, M. & J. L. Leidner (2025) "MANDALA.ML: A Life Cycle-Centric and Role-Aware Methodology for Agile Machine Learning Projects" Proc. 24th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques (SOMET 2025), Kitakyushu, Japan, September 23-26, 2025
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
leidner.bsky.social
The winner of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is again St. Petersburg State University!
ZH: Beijing Jiaotong(3)/Tsinghua(4)/Peking(5)
US: Harvard(6)/MIT(8)/.../UMD(14)/ASU(17)/CMU(19)
EU: Zagreb(4)/.../
#programming #competitions
September 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍

#janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky
September 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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R.I.P. Elizabeth "Liz" D. Liddy
www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c...

#people #research #obituaries
Elizabeth Liddy Obituary - Charlotte, NC
Celebrate the life of Elizabeth Liddy, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of McEwen Pineville Chapel.
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September 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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"Bound for glory": Yourshire's largest bookshop in a former youth hostel contains Richard Axe's life work in book collecting
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richar...

#bookshops #books #UK
Lonesome spines: buyer sought for over 150,000 books and the one-time Yorkshire Dales youth hostel in which they’re housed
Richard Axe is celebrated in the bookselling trade for his vast collection of antiquarian and second-hand volumes. Since 2005, his stock has been arrayed on over a mile’s worth of shelving in a former...
www.worldofinteriors.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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#bookstores
strategywoman.bsky.social Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · Sep 1
Greetings from Kyiv!

Having my warcoffee (and cold lemonade - it’s hot outside) in a cosy bookstore.
September 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
leidner.bsky.social
Dear Anonymous: when we submitted, we actually thought "At least it's very well written..." ;-) - but thanks for the ticket to Spain, anyway - it feels good to see the dice in our favour ⚄ ⚄ ⚃ ⚄ ⚂ ⚄ ...
#conferences #research
September 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
leidner.bsky.social
If anyone asked me what the best part of ACL 2025 was for me, then it was Kathy McKeown's emotional accpetance talk.

"The [ACL] Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon Kathy McKeown, in recognition of her 43-year career marked by outstanding...#research"

Source: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...
Announcement of the 2025 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award and Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award | ACL Member Portal
www.aclweb.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
leidner.bsky.social
The history of the #Python programming language - a documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)
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August 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
leidner.bsky.social
code.golf - who can write the shortest code?
Code Golf
Code Golf is a game designed to let you show off your code-fu by solving problems in the least number of characters.
code.golf
August 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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"The 15-Year-Old Who Discovered the Law of Primes" - a pristine didactic gem explaining the Prime Number Theorem & the hunt for number theoretical truth from Euclid to Hadamard and Poussin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoJa...
#Gauss #mathematics #numbertheory #primenumbers #primes
The 15-Year-Old Who Discovered the Law of Primes
YouTube video by Physics Explained
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August 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Davis et al. (2024) "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis" BMJ: 55 / 186 = 30% of DSM board members have industry conflict of interest
method COIs were determined
August 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Take advantage of our conference offers for the Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea until September 26.

Apply code 102501 at checkout: cup.org/3JrLsc2

#SLE2025
cover of the book How to Create a Language cover of the book Language Assemblages cover of the book Bitch: The Journey of a Word cover of the book The Comfort of Screens
August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
leidner.bsky.social
One of few alternative models of computation discovered/invented around the same time - the other ones being Post production systems (Emil L. Post, 1943) and untyped lambda calculus (Alonzo Church, 1936 - Turing's thesis supervisor). It is striking how elegant they all are.
quantamagazine.bsky.social Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Aug 26
In 1936, Alan Turing conceived of hypothetical machines that could help mathematically model the process of computation. Built from just three parts, Turing machines can in principle compute the answer to any solvable problem. www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-...
August 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM