Weeknotes

Wekelijkse reflecties over werk, technologie (en het leven). Dit zijn mijn weeknotes - korte updates over waar ik over nadenk, aan werk en wat ik leer. Ik schrijf zoal over de spanning tussen technologie en beleid, de uitdagingen van digitale transformatie, en hoe we betekenisvolle verandering kunnen bewerkstelligen. Zoals over maken boven schrijven, de realiteit van hosting in slow motion, gedachten over kunstmatige intelligentie, en waarom email dood is.

Software Engineering in an Ivory Tower?

Last Tuesday, on my 6th day at the government, I took this picture. I sit on the 31st floor in the right tower. Five floors from the top. (Interestingly, there doesn’t seem to be a correlation between floor and status. At least it is not direct or inverse). It looks suspiciously ivory.

Leaving Spotify, joining the Government

I had my last day at Spotify a bit over a month ago. Thanks, everyone for the incredible journey, working alongside such great people and contributing to Spotify Search. It was an enriching experience that will stay with me!

Short SIGIR Paper on Tip-of-the-Tongue Retrieval for Music Accepted!

Our paper When the Music Stops: Tip-of-the-Tongue Retrieval for Music was accepted as a short paper at SIGIR2023! This work was done with Samarth Bhargav (intern at Spotify at the time) and Claudia Hauff. We released a dataset with the paper, a pre-print is available from arXiv.

Joining Spotify

Last week was my last at DPG Media, after a ride of almost 4 years. I’m thankful for the company and the people there (in particular Philippe Remarque, Marten Blankesteijn, Paul Vereijken) that allowed me to do what I did: growing a team focussing on personalization.

ECIR2016 short paper on 'Probabilistic Multileave Gradient Descent' accepted

Our paper Probabilistic Multileave Gradient Descent with Harrie Oosterhuis, Anne Schuth, and Maarten de Rijke was accepted at ECIR2016.