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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️

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Computer scientist #CS & entrepreneur, Information Retrieval #IR and Databases #DB

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Radboud University, Nijmegen & Spinque, Utrecht NL
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Andrew Ng on LLMs: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-332/

"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!

OpenAI’s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway’s Interactive Worlds, Disney’s Alliance With OpenAI, and more...

The Batch AI News and Insights: As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely...

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Dick Schoof, nog in functie en nu al compleet vergeten. Een unieke prestatie | de Volkskrant
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." […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

CBS: na vijf jaar daling leven weer meer mensen in armoede - https://nos.nl/l/2594901

Het is maar goed dat PVV + NSC + BBB + VVD + ambtenaar Schoof alweer bijna achter ons ligt.

CBS: na vijf jaar daling leven weer meer mensen in armoede

Door het wegvallen van de energietoeslag is de armoede in Nederland weer toegenomen.

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Nieuwsbericht:
Trump steunt pitatenpartij met actie, niet met middelen.

https://nos.nl/l/2595146

Confiscatie van schaduwschip Skipper heeft grote gevolgen voor de zeevaart

De schaduwvloot helpt landen als Rusland, Iran en Venezuela aan olie-inkomsten. Westerse landen willen ingrijpen. Gaat dat nu meer gebeuren?

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

BREAKING: Today, at the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, we announced a partnership between #fire2025 and #irrj. There will be an IRRJ special issue on FIRE! 🔥 More information to be shared here soon.

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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Are you being tracked when you visit your government's websites?

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 […]

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A figure showing the slow but steady growth of tracking on government websites worldwide, starting at a very low level in 1996 and growing to about 50% in 2025.

Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Thanks to @wilbowma for raising issue with GenAI features in the ACM DL for premium users.

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) […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

#ecir2026 notifications were friendly to me 🤗

1. Full paper "Open Web Indexes for Remote Querying" with @gijs and @djoerd.

Can we let ppl query the Terabytes of Web Index we collect in #OpenWebSearch.EU in new ways, making good use of Parquet, S3, DuckDB?

Turns out the answer is a big YES! […]

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@djoerd yes, Ellen's remark specifically targeted GenAI "evaluation"

Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Ellen Voorhees concludes her 2025 NLM Ada Lovelace Computational Health Lecture on Evaluating Messy Tasks as follows:

"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

DIR Lectures

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Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Today at 16:00 CET, I'll give a vision talk "Should AI Coders Experiment More?", paving the way to AI “super coders” that may become way more competent than the most experienced programmers - and also way more competent than any LLM-based coders. Details here […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Onthutsende blik achter de schermen.

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 […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

The Tech Coup, Trump and the Test for Europe

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/

thetechcoup.com – How to save Democracy from Silicon Valley

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

@Claudia Hauff:

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!

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

3. The Radboud digital exam system has limited applications installed and very limited internet access. It did have access to Windows Paint, though, which has a new co-pilot button, which goes to "Image Creator", which has a "sign in with Microsoft", which is on the allow list, because our […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates

https://www.ft.com/content/23e54a28-6f63-4533-ab96-3756d9c88bad

"Based on a total cumulative deal value of up to $1.8tn, OpenAI is heading for a data centre rental bill of about $620bn a year — […]

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

#cfp Call for Papers for Volume 2, 2026: Please submit your papers for the third issue of IRRJ, Volume 2 Number 1, which is planned June 2026.

https://irrj.org/announcement/view/305

Call for Papers for Volume 2, 2026 | Information Retrieval Research

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

🎶🎶🎶

https://open.spotify.com/track/3rT4BgRJqUyhibsnGte9lt?si=qmAYSGmaTzGSHO1PLR6NGw

Real Thing

Drugdealer, Weyes Blood · The News · Song · 2025

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

What Happened When I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI | HuffPost UK Parents
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-trap-to-catch-students-cheating-ai_uk_691f20d1e4b00ed8a94f4c01

Interesting stat: a Trojan horse in a writing assignment identified 33 AI-generated papers (out of […]

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Ren @rogueren.vt.social.ap.brid.gy · 28d

"Linux is too complicated for anyone"

Windows users:

#linux #microsoft #fuckai #windows11

Every Windows 11 PC is now an AI PC with Copilot at the center of it all.

Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer
(1/3)

1/ Settings App

> Personalization
> Taskbar
> Other System Tray Icons
> Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off

This hides Copilot from your taskbar

$2/ Press Win + R > Type in "regedit" > Navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot" > Right-click on the new key > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value$ 3/

> Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot"
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer

Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer.

Hope this helps

3/

> Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot"
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer

Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer.

Hope this helps

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · Nov 20

Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
https://theconversation.com/learning-with-ai-falls-short-compared-to-old-fashioned-web-search-269760
When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge […]

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 16

The Epstein Network — https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/

(nerds are amazing)

Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 14

Or, strictly, the server had continued to run steadily - now we can also reach it 🙂

Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 14

Dear users, "somebody" (not me :-)) had put the machine that runs idf.social behind too strict firewall rules, and it took a half day or so for me to find out that we had a problem, and then some 60 hours more to find out what was the problem (to find that somebody :-)).

Anyways, we are back! […]

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 12

"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods": https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

The […]

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