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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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.

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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.

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Serendipity Engine

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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! ⬇️

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · 19/12/2024

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. 🧵

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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

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Ana Lučić @a-lucic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🚨 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-...

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PhD Position in Mechanistic Interpretability

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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

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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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! 💥

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Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com · 27/11/2024

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 🧵

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Alan Said @alansaid.com · 26/11/2024

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...

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Evaluation Perspectives of Recommender Systems: Driving Research and Education (Dagstuhl Seminar 24211)

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Arthur Câmara @abcamara.com · 25/11/2024

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

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“Probabilistic machine learning”: a book series by Kevin Murphy

“Probabilistic Machine Learning” - a book series by Kevin Murphy

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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 :)

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 23/11/2024

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

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Every Academic Needs a Website

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Orion Weller @orionweller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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)!

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

decided to create a RecSys (and adjacent) starter pack with @vickiboykis.com @beeonaposy.bsky.social et al who am I missing? go.bsky.app/RGf9BvY

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A brief introduction of myself should be a good idea after moving from the other platform to here :) I'm a second-year PhD student at the University of #Amsterdam 🇳🇱, working on Recommender Systems #RecSys and Information Retrieval #IR.

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Currently writing up a report on the IR summer school that we organized here in Amsterdam. The lectures are publicly available and provide a great introduction to anyone interested in IR. Thought I'd share: 2024.essir.eu/talks

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Pls repost: We, the DEEM Lab at TU Berlin, are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in data engineering for machine learning. Details available at: deem.berlin#jobs-57624 This fully-funded position is part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). #databs #datasky

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

‘Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.’ A @bsky.app introduction by ChatGPT.

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