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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 2d

If you sign up, and you review any papers I assigned to you, and later we see each other in person (at a conference or whatever), I will pay for one beer per paper I assigned to you.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 2d

As Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) grows in number of submissions, we are looking for more reviewers and action editors. Please sign up!

Only one paper to review at a time and <= 6 per year, reviewers report greater satisfaction than reviewing for conferences!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 7d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences @umdacs.bsky.social · 17d

VACANCY:
Lecturer (0,1 fte) in Computer Science
Faculty of Advanced Computing Sciences Maastricht University
lnkd.in/eHnYUr6F

@maastrichtu.bsky.social

@xai-at-dacs.bsky.social

@taimlab.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #computerscience #assistantprofessor #lecturer

*PLEASE APPLY BY OCTOBER 5TH*

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Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences @umdacs.bsky.social · 17d

VACANCY:
Assistant Professor in AI in Digital Agriculture and Sustainability.
lnkd.in/gFKhd32z

Professor Christopher Brewster and his team are looking for a highly qualified computer scientist with a broad passion for food and agriculture, environment, and biodiversity.

@cawbrewster.bsky.social

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 17d

Hello everyone 👋 Good news!

🚨 Our Game Theory & Multiagent Systems team at Google DeepMind is hiring! 🚨

.. and we have not one, but two open positions! One Research Scientist role and one Research Engineer role. 😁

Please repost and tell anyone who might be interested!

Details in thread below 👇

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Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social · 29d

CALL FOR PAPERS! We are accepting papers for Computational Techniques for Games Heritage, a special issue of the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage! See below for more info or reach out if you have questions! dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · Sep 16

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · Sep 16

Anyone who gets caught having submitted LLM-generated garbage to a conference should be publicly called out and paraded around at a session specifically dedicated to this at said conference.

a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people

ALT: a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people

media.tenor.com

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Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences @umdacs.bsky.social · Sep 11

WANTED: Lecturer in Computer Science
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Lecturer-%281%2C0-fte%29-in-Computer-Science/820307502/

@maastrichtu.bsky.social @xai-at-dacs.bsky.social @taimlab.bsky.social @umids.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #computerscience #assistantprofessor #lecturer

Vacancy for a Lecturer in Computer Sciences at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) at Maastricht University.

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · Sep 2

In the context of your first post referencing Obama, it's difficult not to read this second post as referring to Trump with "the current president". But somehow I doubt that that's who you meant 😅

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Aug 27

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

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austin @aparker.io · Aug 7

data visualization is my passion

clip from a openai presentation showing swe bench performance; the openai o3 and gpt-4o models are at the same visual level but the labels are wildly different

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · Aug 1

you only get a like from me if you promise it will be a Tic-Tac-Toe opinion

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS.

Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...
eurips.cc

eurips.cc

A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark

eurips.cc

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · Jul 7

Development is ongoing, and our priorities are expanding the mechanic space (sliding and hopping games are nearly there...) and improving the ease of use (both for RL and human-studies experiments).

Excited to see where we can take it!

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · Jul 7

Dedicated, single-environment JAX implementations (like PGX) will be faster, but Ludax lets you test on many different environments without having to write any JAX code yourself -- we're particularly excited about applications to general game playing and studying game invention!

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · Jul 7

Ludax currently supports a wide range of two-player, perfect-information board games played by placing pieces (with more mechanics on the way!)

The resulting environments can run at over 10 million steps per second on a single NVIDIA 4090 GPU

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · Jul 7

Ludax is inspired by both the Ludii game description language (ludii.games/index.php) and the excellent PGX library of board game implementations in JAX (github.com/sotetsuk/pgx)

Our goal is to combine the best parts of both projects: flexibility and speed!

Ludii Portal

Home of the Ludii General Game System.

ludii.games

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · Jul 7

Excited to introduce the first version of Ludax, a domain-specific language for board games that compiles directly into JAX code!

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.22609
Code: github.com/gdrtodd/ludax

Work led by NYU's Graham Todd (not on bluesky).

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · Jul 3

The NeurIPS paper checklist corroborates the bureaucratic theory of statistics.

Standard error of what now?

The NeurIPS checklist corroborates the bureaucratic theory of statistics.

www.argmin.net

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Nov 26

Does everyone in your community agree on some folk knowledge that isn’t published anywhere? Put it in a paper! It’s a pretty valuable contribution

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Jun 3

Next: Christof Seiler: Prediction Intervals at the Tour de France

Using AI to predict calorie consumption, to plan meals for cyclists. Used variables such as race type, BMI, weather etc.

We also can calculate and correct for spillover in flow cytometry data.

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · Jun 4

Spent the day at an excellent symposium, followed by a Ph.D. defense of Tom Pepels in Maastricht, whose thesis was titled Monte Carlo Tree Search is a Work in Progress.

www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/siks-...

Want to see me in a formal gown and a bow tie? Look down 👇 1/2

SIKS-DACS Symposium: Advances in Game AI and its Applications - Events - Maastricht UniversityMaastricht UniversityMaastricht UniversityMaastricht University

www.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Oskar @austegard.com · May 28

Yes -- change your search bar's default to append &udm=14 to your search: See www.wikihow.com/Turn-Off-Goo...

Ironically discovered via AI-generated snippet

Google AI helping user turn off Google AI

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · May 22

Can I in any way turn off these stupid AI-generated responses to my google searches????

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