Vera Provatorova 🌻

👩‍💻 NLP, AI, a bit of IR, entity linking
Ex- @IRLab_Amsterdam 📚 @KB_Nederland, @KNAW_HuC

[Vera Provatorova 🌻 @vera__pro]

We actually did it 😂🤘 (music by Guns'n'Roses, lyrics by yours truly)

[Samarth Bhargav @samarthbhargav]

Presenting @vera__pro and @rubenvanheusden performing, for the first time ever, "Papers": all we need is read & write some papers @SIGIRConf #sigir2022

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When my little brother was 3-ish, he once pointed at my uni homework on the screen and said, "This is not calculus, these are differential equations". And he was right 😊 (Having heard both names too many times from me back then :))

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

yesterday I told my 2-year-old daughter the title of one of the papers I’m working on, and she nodded silently. this morning she walked up to me, pointed at the paper on my computer screen, and said “cohomology!”

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@OlgaBeshley Всё поняла, кроме клички (?). Оно соевое? Оно сухое? Что оно такое? 😅 (простите голландку за глупый вопрос))

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@jobergum Thank you! :)

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them: You should get an MBA, it's cool
me: Ok, done!

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@NoContextDutch1 🎶 'T staat er echt, pagina achttien, zwart omrand
Hield 'ie vroeger al zijn meningen en al zijn dromen stil
Nu is 'ie niets niet niemand nergens meer
Kan dus gaan waar 'ie maar wil 🎶

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@alikulovz Сразу, они сказали, что я дофига гиперактивная, а для этого он лучше работает. Не знаю, есть ли статьи на тему или это инфа из их практики, но работает) Эти ребята спасли мне жизнь, в прямом смысле тоже 🧡

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@alikulovz Bro 🖐😄

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A well-deserved PhD cum laude, congrats Dr. Daniel! 🎉🎉🎉

[Daniel Daza @danieldazac]

My PhD thesis is now available online at
https://t.co/eJnNjX33CX
I'm thankful with all my collaborators who joined me in this journey!

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On a positive note, I love the grey Dutch weather because it (almost) doesn't hurt my eyes

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Migraine suuuucks

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@Cooleach Звучит как что-то из Stardew Valley :)

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

Nothing can ever justify a pogrom.

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@pepel_klaasa Proficiat!

[Dr. Karen Ullrich @karen_ullrich]

#Tokenization is undeniably a key player in the success story of #LLMs but we poorly understand why.
I want to highlight progress we made in understanding the role of tokenization, developing the core incidents and mitigating its problems. 🧵👇

[Volunteers With No Limits 🇳🇱🇺🇦 @volunteers_nl]

Soon we’re launching camouflage net weaving workshops at our new location in Amsterdam de Pijp! 🇳🇱

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this meaningful project. Enjoy hands-on crafting, support Ukraine, and connect with like-minded people!

Stay tuned for updates!

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Kafka, the patron saint of PhDs

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@TaliaRinger Congratulations! 🎉

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Meeting family in a sunny country A: might spend N hours in a bomb shelter, but likely will be fine. Meeting family in a cold country B: might be fine, but likely will spend N years in jail. Oh, this timeline 🙈 (I hope to see the sunny country soon and the cold country never)

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@ShouldHaveCat My childhood cat died in my arms 12 years ago, aged 12. These posts still get me, every single time 😭