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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 21d

In 2024, there has been an alarming upwards trend: +17%, and analyses show further that there is a high degree of under-reporting happening. This means the police/government want to downplay the problem.

#crime #nazis #neveragain #hatecrime

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 21d

Our presentation: next Wednesday, slot A-35, 7.30 a.m. German time.

Amazing how the software engineering and AI subdisciplines of computer science interact at the moment!

#softwareengineering #machinelearning #artificialintelligence

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Sep 5

Novi Sad(11)/Karlsruhe KIT(13)/Pisa(39)/Delft(40)/Jagiellonian Krakow(42)/Wroclaw(43)
DE: .../Karlsruhe KIT(13)/HPI Potsdam(29)/Saarland(81)
GB: .../Cambridge(50)
(after "..." means "not in the Top-10")
worldfinals.icpc.global/scoreboard/2...

49th ICPC World Finals Baku

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Sustainability @sustainableplanet.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

www.dignitymemorial.com

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm as old as C, UNIX and SMALLTALK.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Sep 1

"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...

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Sep 1

#bookstores

Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · Sep 1

Greetings from Kyiv!

Having my warcoffee (and cold lemonade - it’s hot outside) in a cosy bookstore.

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Aug 26

"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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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · Aug 26

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 Bitch: The Journey of a Word

cover of the book The Comfort of Screens

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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-...

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Aug 26

This paper, which will be presented in two days (but pre-proceedings are out today), introduces ωLP-ROUGE, a variant of the ROUGE family of metrics adjusted with a length penalty, which is needed because recall metrics are strongly biased towards the "whaffling" answers of LLMs.

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Aug 26

Reiche, M. and J. L. Leidner (2025) "Welcome to the Team: Chat Agents for Machine Learning Project Management Support", Proc. IntelliSys'25, vol. 2, LNNS 1567, 448-469.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#chatbots #RAG #evaluation #benchmarkdata #projectmanagement #datascience #virtualcolleague

Welcome to the Team: Chat Agents for Machine Learning Project Management Support

Planning and managing projects, especially those involving machine learning (ML), can be challenging without clear guidance. To address this, various general and specialized ML methodologies have been...

link.springer.com

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Aug 12

While this is a good move for the UK and for the EU, it does not motivate the UK to take further steps towards re-joining. I beleve the European way is all-in or all-out, not each cherry picking from a menu only the things that benefit them.

Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · Aug 12

UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme

Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · Aug 6

satya.. this is not okay. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · Aug 11

Japan’s copyright law allows AI developers to train models on copyrighted material without permission...The law does not, however, allow for wholesale reproduction of those works, or for distributing copies that will “unreasonably prejudice the interests of the copyright owner.” buff.ly/spT466P

Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court on August 7, marks…

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