Logitech forgot to renew its server certificate, so now my mouse scrolls in the opposite direction, and I'm unable to move between windows. What a time to be alive.

A read that resonates. I keep coming back to the thought of how curation by algorithms fits into this idea of the web. If someone has some good reads on this, let me know! The group at serendipityengine.be is one great example imo.

Let’s collaborate on democratizing insights from tabular data in Amsterdam! ✨

PhD directions: 1) fundamental techniques for tabular foundation models, 2) reliable mechanisms for AI-powered tabular data analysis.

Sharing w/ friends appreciated! ⬇️

The winner is '.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints', with 42 characters in a single token. OpenAI really values iOS development I guess 😅

As it turns out: It's one of the longest tokens without special characters. When considering special characters, the top ones look like this.

Today's funny tokenization realization: The GPT4 tokenizer has 1 single token for the entire lower- and uppercase alphabet.

IRLab Amsterdam made it to Bluesky! Go give @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social a follow for all things RecSys, IR, RAG, Conv AI, etc!

I'll get straight to the point.

We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.

Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.

It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Congratulations dr. Zihan Wang! It was an honor to be your paranymph.

🚨 PhD position alert! 🚨

I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at @uva-amsterdam.bsky.social. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

Yesterday @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social hosted the yearly NeurIPS-Fest, a pre-party for NeurIPS with a keynote talk, poster session, drinks and bites! 🍺🍻

The keynote was by @canaesseth.bsky.social , who talked about "Diffusion, Flows and other stories", presenting his 5 papers accepted at NeurIPS! 💥

I'm looking for an intern to introduce Sparse Embedding models to Sentence Transformers! If you're passionate about open source, interested in helping practitioners use your tools, and enjoy embedders/retrievers/rerankers, then I'd love to hear from you!

Links with details and to apply in 🧵

And we have a #Dagstuhl Report!
Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. Edited by @christinebauer.bsky.social, @evazangerle.bsky.social, and myself. Written by a whole host of fantastic #recsys people. Too many to mention (pic here www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...)
drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc...

I think it would be hard to beat the Probabilistic Machine Learning books by Kevin Murphy. probml.github.io/pml-book/

I love the formatting of this one :) Thank you!

Awesome, thank you!

I'm looking for a textbook to take me through fundamental ML concepts again. Not too applied, and preferably with a Deep Learning angle. Currently considering the new Deep Learning book by Bishop, but maybe my Bluesky following has different recommendations. Let me know :)

Things you need as a PhD student:
- coffee ☕
- a living stipend 💰
- a website 🔗

For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.html

a panda bear is rolling around in the grass in a zoo enclosure . Alt: a panda bear is rolling around in the grass in a zoo enclosure .

No one can explain stochastic gradient descent better than this panda.

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Top Information Retrieval Papers of the Week | Sumit | Substack A weekly curated newsletter about the latest research papers in the Information Retrieval domain, including Recommender Systems, Search, Retrieval, and Ranking. Click to read Top Information Retrieval...

This is such a great start of every week for me.

Credits to Sumit for compiling such an easy to digest newsletter on #IR, #RAG and #RecSys.

open.substack.com/pub/recsys?r...

Creating a 🦋 starter pack for people working in IR/RAG: go.bsky.app/88ULgwY

I can’t seem to find everyone though, help definitely appreciated to fill this out (DM or comment)!

Would love to be added! Thanks!

Would love to be added ✋

As people are slowly moving over, I thought I'd make a list of people on here who work on IR & RecSys in Amsterdam. Who am I missing? Both researchers and engineers :)

go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2

Haha all good! You should definitely come pay us a visit at some point :)

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