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davidvos.bsky.social
Responsible #RecSys and #IR in the Generative AI era. PhD Candidate at IRLab Amsterdam, supervised by Maarten de Rijke and Andrew Yates. davidvos.dev
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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! ⬇️

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

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. 🧵

submitted 185 days ago • 19 comments

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

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 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-...

submitted 202 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 203 days ago • 0 comments

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! 💥

submitted 205 days ago • 1 comment

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 🧵

submitted 207 days ago • 3 comments

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...

submitted 208 days ago • 0 comments

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 :)

submitted 209 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 211 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 210 days ago • 10 comments

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...

submitted 210 days ago • 0 comments

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)!

submitted 211 days ago • 32 comments

De overstap #BlueSky

submitted 212 days ago • 37 comments

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

submitted 215 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 215 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 236 days ago • 10 comments

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.

submitted 216 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 216 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 219 days ago • 0 comments

‘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.

submitted 225 days ago • 0 comments