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.

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.

LiLa'16 Tutorial at ECIR'16

ECIR 2016 in Padova will feature LiLa 2016, the first edition of our tutorial on Living Labs for Online Evaluation.

WSDM2016 paper on 'Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank' accepted

Our paper Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank with Anne Schuth, Harrie Oosterhuis, Shimon Whiteson, and Maarten de Rijke was accepted at WSDM2016.