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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️
@arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy
Computer scientist #CS & entrepreneur, Information Retrieval #IR and Databases #DB

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Radboud University, Nijmegen & Spinque, Utrecht NL
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Today: DIR 2025 at #radboud University in Nijmegen.

https://informagus.nl/dir2025/schedule

Harrie Oosterhuis opening #dir2025 with a brief history of past editions and basic stats about submissions.

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October 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Alexander Serebrenik gives today's diversity lecture at the Science Faculty.

He starts with a warm welcome by claiming software engineering is a social science :-)
October 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Michael Granitzer opening the final OWS.EU project meeting - planning what to do until March 2026, and how to keep things afloat after March.
October 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Gabrielle Pasi opening the Women in IR panel on Career Development. The panelists are Irina Gurevych (also today's keynote speaker), Yoelle Maarek, Vanessa Murdock and Min Zhang 🤩🤩🤩🤩
July 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Nice presenter elements - drawing attention from slide 0, and offering a podcast of the paper. Interesting work too, trying to get more grip on chunking vs RAG in evaluation.
July 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Open Search Foundation's @osf Stefan Voigt presenting at the

Open Web Index

online launch party (you can still join!)
https://openwebsearch.eu/open-webindex/

#owseu #owi #osf
June 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Genoten bij S10 in Roosje vanavond
May 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Save the Web?
Save the date!

June 6, 2025, 10am CEST
May 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Today at CWI, for the symposium:

"Truth is in the Eyes of the Machines".
https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programmes/truth-is-in-the-eyes-of-the-machines-symposium/

Series of talks on online misinformation and LLMs.

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May 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The news about Harvard standing up against modern time oppression by the Trump administration reminds me of Radboud University in 1943.

Rector Magnificus Bernard Hermesdorf refused to present students with a declaration of loyalty to the German occupying forces […]

[Original post on idf.social]
April 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Stocks hadn’t fallen this far this fast since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. A 9.1 percent drop in the S&P 500 is the steepest weekly decline since March 2020."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/business/trump-stocks-tariffs-trade.html

"But this […]

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April 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Linkedin??
March 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
View from the Qwant headquarters, where we meet to discuss the route to European sovereignty in search.

Very exciting (even if missing out on the chance to join the uni strike in Nijmegen today - luckily many colleagues do).
March 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
[Politics Musk]

"Heil Tesla" with inaugural footage from Musk, projected on Berlin Tesla Factory
January 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sunday afternoon walk.
January 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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// Fijne feestdagen \\\
|| Happy Holidays ||
|| Joyeuses Fêtes ||
|| Frohe Feiertage ||
|| Buone Feste ||
\\\ Felices Fiestas //
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December 22, 2024 at 11:55 AM
December 3, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Den Haag vandaag, misschien wel 25000 mensen.

Studeren is een recht!
Geen privilege!

Veel collega's gezien, Radboud rode hoodies mooi herkenbaar.

Mooi om eensgezind "DOE HET NIET" te scanderen. De bella ciao protestsong kwam er ook wonderbaarlijk mooi uit […]

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November 25, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Very nice!

https://here.allmaps.org/

Uses location information and IIIF images of digitized old maps to place you on a map in a different year.

Web Annotations to the max! Perfect illustration of the power of open standards.

Tnx @verbeeld for the […]

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November 19, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Quite a few students went to Utrecht after all, to raise their voices, with lovely signs too. 🟥

"De groete met je boete" 😁

(I can only hope things won't escalate... Positive atmosphere so far!)
November 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Staff all throughout the NL organised walk-outs, Eg this photo from Nijmegen (I wasn't there myself btw). I love the sign "geen beetje Duits, Frans" that reflects ties a popular Dutch song to the budget cuts that already caused study programmes being removed from Faculties of Arts in NL.
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
October 26, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Daoud Clarke introduced us to the Mwmble search engine.

One very nice feature is the approach to use a browser extension to let people help populate the crawl. (M$ and G$$G do this also, by sneaking into their own browsers.)

So: donations can classicly help […]

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October 10, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Enjoyed the you.com keynote by Richard Socher, and excellent Q&A session, at #ossym2024 in LRZ Munich today.
October 10, 2024 at 8:02 AM