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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️
@arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy
Computer scientist #CS & entrepreneur, Information Retrieval #IR and Databases #DB

Indie music 🎸

Radboud University, Nijmegen & Spinque, Utrecht NL
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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
www.nlm.nih.gov
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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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mastodon.social
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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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idf.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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
thetechcoup.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
@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!
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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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idf.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#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
irrj.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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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idf.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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"Linux is too complicated for anyone"

Windows users:

#linux #microsoft #fuckai #windows11
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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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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idf.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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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idf.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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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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mastodon.scot
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The Epstein Network — https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/

(nerds are amazing)
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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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idf.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"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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idf.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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#horizondiamond on 5 and 6 February 2026 in Nijmegen explores what Diamond Open Access (DOA) has to offer:

https://www.horizondiamond.nl
New Horizons Diamond
www.horizondiamond.nl
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Goed interview met @Felienne in Buitenhof,

"is AI slimmer dan de mens?"
https://www.vpro.nl/buitenhof/artikelen/buitenhof-9-november-2025

Ik zou het zeker kijken!

https://npo.nl/start/serie/buitenhof/seizoen-20/buitenhof_360/afspelen

Felienne zit op 38:50 (maar... eerste item over drones ook […]
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idf.social
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Goed interview met @Felienne in Buitenhof,

"is AI slimmer dan de mens?"
https://www.vpro.nl/buitenhof/artikelen/buitenhof-9-november-2025

Ik zou het zeker kijken!

https://npo.nl/start/serie/buitenhof/seizoen-20/buitenhof_360/afspelen

Felienne zit op 38:50 (maar... eerste item over drones ook […]
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idf.social
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"VVD houdt woord" maar welk woord blijft lekker in het midden hangen.

Minister Paul wekt verbazing met schrappen van maatregel tegen uitbuiting van arbeidsmigranten
Nieuws
De verbazing in Den Haag is groot over het besluit van demissionair minister Mariëlle Paul (VVD) dat werkgevers toch loon […]
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idf.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Een cadeautje:

De voorzichtige terugkeer van het politieke midden
(Caroline de Gruyter in het NRC)

"Onderzoek van politicologen als Larry Bartels en Nancy Bermeo wijst stelselmatig uit dat kiezers niet verrechtsen. Het is het aanbod dat verrechtst. Het zijn politieke leiders van middenpartijen […]
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idf.social
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Goed artikel in NRC vandaag @Felienne
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
WTF VVD.

"De IND stuurt namens demissionair minister Van Weel (VVD) van Asiel en Migratie vrouwen terug naar Afghanistan. Tegelijkertijd werkt minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Van Weel juist aan de vervolging van het Taliban-regime vanwege grove schendingen van vrouwenrechten." […]
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idf.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM