@arjenpdevries.bsky.social
https://arjenp.dev/ and @arjen@idf.social
Onderzoek van politicologen wijst stelselmatig uit dat kiezers niet verrechtsen. Het is het aanbod dat verrechtst, de positie van politieke leiders. Daarom is de voorzichtige terugkeer van het politieke midden juist nu belangrijk voor de democratie.
Mijn column in @nrc.nl
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
‘The Democrats Still May Not Understand What They're Dealing With’ - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/11/elon-musk-donald-trump-silicon-valley-book-jacob-silverman-00603682
"A simple way to put it is that this is a group of people used to getting everything that they […]
Een sterke, competente vaste kamercommissie Digitale zaken.
Dit initiatief van @berthubert.bsky.social vraagt aandacht voor "genoeg kennis in de Tweede Kamer te behouden of te krijgen [zo] dat de commissie ook na de verkiezingen geloofwaardig door kan" #tk2025
nerdvote.nl/diza/
Portland! We're excited to host a semi-secret members' Speakeasy on October 25 🍻 We hope to see you there: eff.org/speakeasy-p...
07.10.2025 00:26 — 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0FT: Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI
https://www.ft.com/content/934cc94b-32c4-497e-9718-d87d6a7835ca
"The document contained multiple errors, including references and citations to non-existent reports by academics at the universities of Sydney […]
Created a DNS extension for @duckdb.org today:
github.com/tobilg/duckd...
Hopefully it will be available via the Community Extensions soon!
Insight in the data economy:
https://www.404media.co/airlines-sell-5-billion-plane-ticket-records-to-the-government-for-warrantless-searching/
Seems dodgy! Did I get the option to not consent? I don't recall seeing this on my last flight booking.
Building a decentralized, distributed web is vital to finding and preserving information for all, @archive.org founder @brewster.kahle.org tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com on the latest episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”
17.09.2025 15:05 — 👍 54 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1
🕊️ Lifetime Achievement Award at #ACL2025NLP
A standing ovation for Prof. Kathy McKeown, recipient of the ACL 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award! 🌟
🌟Really excited to share the fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) report published in SIGIR Forum!
Paper 👉🏻 www.johannetrippas.com/papers/tripp...
More info 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/swirl20...
#SWIRL2025 #SIGIR2026 #IR #GenAI #Research #CHIIR2026
Barbara Kathmann heeft fantastisch werk gedaan op het gebied van digitalisering en privacy, maar haar indrukwekkende prestaties op deze portefeuille kregen van de kandidatencommissie verrassend genoeg niet de waardering die ze verdienen.
Stem daarom op onze strijdbare anti-Musk! #RaiseTheBar
Recording of the OWI launch event from June 6th:
https://vimeo.com/1112822052
+ Get introduced to the Open Web Index
+ Learn how to access and use the Open Web index
+ Licenses and options for raw data access
+ Use cases for the Open Web Index
+ Hands-on tutorial on our index access tools […]
Python!
https://youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?si=lT2Y7QhgusMLNctH
The Python Documentary.
Featuring several CWI ex-colleagues, of course.
The premiere is tomorrow on YouTube at 17:00 UTC (that's 19:00 CET for Europeans). It's an hour and 24 minutes long.
Zo, lekker dan, alsof die mensen ook maar iets zinvols kunnen zeggen over hoe een zoekmachine werkt! Achtten ze jou daar niet toe in staat en ging de rechtbank daarin mee?!
Alas, het doet er denk ik niet meer toe.
Hansken is trouwens een followup op Xiraf (maar dat wist je natuurlijk al :-)).
Maakt nieuwsgierig naar de context David!
was het leuk om te doen?
Informagus @ SIGIR & ICTIR 2025 Sunday July 13 – Tutorials and DC Consortium Enhancing Knowledge Injection in Large Language Models for Efficient and Trustworthy Responses Heydar Soudani Doctoral Consortium Paper - 16:30 - Doctoral Consortium Monday July 14 – Main Conference Score-Fitted Indexes and Constant Length Indexes for Information Retrieval Djoerd Hiemstra Short Paper - 14:00 - Short Papers Posters 1 In a Few Words: Comparing Weak Supervision and LLMs for Short Query Intent Classification Daria Alexander, Arjen P. de Vries Short Paper - 14:00 - Short Papers Posters 1 RecGaze: The First Eye Tracking and User Interaction Dataset for Carousel Interfaces Santiago de Leon-Martinez, Jingwei Kang, Robert Moro, Maarten de Rijke, Branislav Kveton, Harrie Oosterhuis, Maria Bielikova Resource Paper - 14:00 - Resource Papers Posters 1 Tuesday July 15 – Main Conference Optimizing Compound Retrieval Systems Harrie Oosterhuis, Rolf Jagerman, Zhen Qin, Xuanhui Wang Full Paper - 14:00 - Search and Ranking 1 Wednesday July 16 – Main Conference Learning to Rank with Variable Result Presentation Lengths Norman Knyazev, Harrie Oosterhuis Full Paper - 10:30 - Reranking Adaptive Orchestration of Modular Generative Information Access Systems Mohanna Hoveyda, Harrie Oosterhuis, Arjen P. de Vries, Maarten de Rijke, Faegheh Hasibi Perspectives Paper - 12:15 - Perspectives 1 Thursday July 17 – Workshops On the Neural Hype and Improving Efficiency of Sparse Retrieval Djoerd Hiemstra Keynote - 10:30 - ReNeuIR’25 Workshop Harnessing Pairwise Ranking Prompting Through Sample-Efficient Ranking Distillation Junru Wu, Le Yan, Zhen Qin, Honglei Zhuang, Paul Suganthan G.C., Tianqi Liu, Zhe Dong, Xuanhui Wang, Harrie Oosterhuis Workshop Paper - 14:15 - ReNeuIR’25 Workshop An Axiomatic Examination of Uncertainty Estimation in RAG Systems Heydar Soudani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Faegheh Hasibi Workshop Paper - Time TBA - IR-RAG’25 Workshop FACE: A Fine-grained Reference Free Evaluator for Co…
If you are attending #SIGIR2025 and #ICTIR2025, come check out our research group's presentations! 😊
We have 14 presentations in total, with at least one every day. 😄
If you want to know more about our group, e.g., the meaning of the Informagus name 😁, do reach out to us.
See you in Padua! 😎 ☀️ 🇮🇹
Carte blanche geven aan Israël is een blunder van formaat
Mijn column in @nrc.nl
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
A diagram showing the breakdown of the Common Pile corpus. It shows large chunks coming from Code, wikimedia, stackexchange etc.
An 8TB corpus of copyright-free text for training AI models.
https://github.com/r-three/common-pile/blob/main/paper.pdf
I'm glad somebody has finally done this. The "we need to break copyright or AI won't work argument" feels super-dodgy to me and we can just evaluate whether it's true. 1/n
#DIR2025, the 22nd Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop will take place at Radboud University Nijmegen on 27 October 2025!
https://informagus.nl/dir2025/
Welcome to the age of $10/month Lakehouses!
How to build and run a Lakehouse on top of @cloudflare.social R2 , Cloudflare Containers and Neon Postgres, all backed by the new DuckLake "SQL as Lakehouse" format, via @duckdb.org.
tobilg.com/the-age-of-1...
Radboud ICIS research with KU Leuven revealed a huge tracking scandal today: https://localmess.github.io/
Meta and Yandex (ab-)used Android's fuzzy rules on using localhost to track your browsing patterns without your consent. Yandex even owns a domain to hide these access patterns.
Read more […]
Not really db infra, it can be "just another duckdb" if you like.
But honestly, if you handle iceberg files you are probably running a catalog server too, which you can now drop.
This is genius. If I’m understanding correctly, metadata is handled by a DuckDB compatible SQL database and the actual data is handled by an open file format of your choice.
You can perform familiar SQL queries and DDL, on highly scalable open format data files. Well done! #databs #dataengineering
Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ducklake is an open standard and we implemented it in the "ducklake" extension.
27.05.2025 13:12 — 👍 143 🔁 40 💬 8 📌 27DuckLake announced today:
https://ducklake.select/
An integrated data lake and catalog format
"DuckLake delivers advanced data lake features without traditional lakehouse complexity by using Parquet files and your SQL database. It's an open, standalone format from the DuckDB team."
Podcast […]
For more on why the answer for all of AI may be 42, check out @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social ‘s new book!
23.05.2025 20:03 — 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Research on #OpenScience in the Netherlands: Call for proposals
https://www.openscience.nl/en/calls/research-on-open-science
Genoten bij S10 in Roosje vanavond
23.05.2025 21:45 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Post-quantum crypto finds its use in the real world!
An informative article on the recent RHEL 10 release: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/post-quantum-cryptography-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10
#Radboud University has a great track record in the research that led to this step, eg the recent PhD […]
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