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Leo Balduf

@leobalduf.bsky.social

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Computer Science PhD @ TU Darmstadt by day, Generative Art during free time. https://bsky.leobalduf.com

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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jul 22

A8 deep red

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jul 22

R2 grey

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our university posted about our recent work on Bluesky :)

TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social · Jun 25

„Starter Packs“ – von Bluesky-Nutzenden zusammengestellte Listen bestehender User, denen man mit einem Klick folgen kann – haben maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, dass die Plattform Bluesky auf mehr als 30 Millionen Mitglieder angewachsen ist. Das zeigt eine neue Studie der TU: shorturl.at/Zm6it

„Starter Packs“ als Wachstumsbooster für Bluesky

„Starter Packs“ – von Bluesky-Nutzenden zusammengestellte Listen bestehender User, denen neue Nutzende mit einem Klick folgen kön-nen – haben maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, dass die Social-Media-Plattfo...

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sorry! Added you now :)

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 26

I finally managed to go through all the follows and messages about the #ICWSM starter pack.
The first SP is full (wow!), I've added more people I've missed the first time around, and the amazing people I've met at the conference to a second one:
go.bsky.app/2EFgnJV

Let me know who I missed, again!

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 25

@gianluca99.bsky.social just presented their work on how Perspective API is biased towards classifying German content as toxic, and this came to mind.

#ICWSM

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 24

I think you're already added, but I just re-added you :)

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 23

The weather was mostly nice, but sometimes it suddenly started raining cats and dogs.

The locals seem unfazed by this.
As soon as the rain lets up, they reappear on the streets, completely dry.
Sometimes they even ride their bikes in the rain, still somehow looking dry.

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you have too much stuff, you can give it to the pelican. He'll gobble it up, I guess?

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 23

I also found this building. I see where they put all the corners they didn't put into those lamps.

A high-rise-ish building in Copenhagen with many spiky outgrowths.

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 23

They also have these very rounded and fluffy-looking lamps, very good.

Wispy, cloud-like lamps suspended from the ceiling.

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 23

I've noticed a few things about Copenhagen:

Aalborg University has a bridge, our university does not. Pretty cool.

A bridge connecting two buildings across a waterway.

The entrance to the bridge from one building.

The view from the bridge.

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 23

I actually found that feed when looking at your profile and have pinned it since :)

No, unfortunately I did it manually. But there was a talk at the NextGen Social Media workshop today where they tracked academics migrating from Twitter to Bluesky: @dorianquelle.bsky.social, @abovet.bsky.social? :)

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 22

Sorry, I must have missed you somewhere, just added! :)

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 21

Only took me a few hours, but I went through the entire proceedings to find every author here on Bluesky. Let me know who I missed!

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 21

Our work on Bluesky: doi.org/10.1609/icws...

Joint work with
@bibo7086.bsky.social
@harnen.bsky.social
@garethtyson.bsky.social
@asonur.bsky.social
@ignactro.bsky.social
@baronca.bsky.social

Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 21

I went through the first 1k pages of the proceedings so far, working on more, bear with me. It's a lot of people to search for :)

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs.

For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7

Let me know if I missed anyone!

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 16

Ich als Laie frage mich: Was ist denn der Unterschied zwischen erneuerbarem und nicht erneuerbarem Müll?

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 6

Out of curiosity: What about Bluesky?

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is a test post containing !ping

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · May 21

What do people embed in their Bluesky posts? All sorts of things!

A table of types of embedded content in Bluesky posts and their counts. The table contains 70 rows, with many obviously invalid entries.

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · May 20

Nice! In the past, I stored IPFS CIDs in a database. I used hash indices, which definitely saved a lot of space. You can't do range queries with them (which is fine), and maybe there are requirements wrt uniqueness, but my keys were unique. Can definitely recommend trying!

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · May 15

ping ftlping.net

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · May 15

@gork.bluesky.bot is this true?