👩💻 NLP, AI, a bit of IR, entity linking Ex- @IRLab_Amsterdam 📚 https://xitter.cf/t.co/yOJpgYprRD, @KB_Nederland, @KNAW_HuC
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined March 2019
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We actually did it 😂🤘 (music by Guns'n'Roses, lyrics by yours truly)
Presenting @vera__pro and @rubenvanheusden performing, for the first time ever, "Papers": all we need is read & write some papers @SIGIRConf #sigir2022
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 :))
A well-deserved PhD cum laude, congrats Dr. Daniel! 🎉🎉🎉
My PhD thesis is now available online at
research.vu.nl/en/publicatio…
I'm thankful with all my collaborators who joined me in this journey!
Vera Provatorova 🌻 retweeted
#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. 🧵👇
Vera Provatorova 🌻 retweeted
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! – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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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The way you impress people these days is by making a *small* model work.
Vera Provatorova 🌻 retweeted
have you ever wondered why SVD comes so late in your linear algebra course?
both wanmo (math prof) and i (cs prof) began to question this a couple of years ago. after all, svd is one of the most widely used concepts from linear algebra in engineering, data science and AI. why wait until the end of the course?
(2/5)
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In the 20th century, non-Euclidean geometry transformed how we model the world with pen and paper. In this century, it’s revolutionizing how we model the world with machines.
Our review on the topic is out arxiv.org/pdf/2407.09468, led w the brilliant
@naturecomputes @johmathe
Ik wil toch iets positiefs over @NS_online zeggen: de conducteurs zijn altijd aardig, en als ze omroepen, klinkt dat beter dan op de radio 🧡
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GPT-5 confirmed to confidently try to complete 11 tasks simultaneously then email you 6 months later explaining it’s had a mental breakdown
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We are ‼️‼️‼️urgently‼️‼️‼️ looking for a new location for our center‼️‼️‼️
We need:
- access 24/7
- accesible with a public transport
- big enough for storage and providing goods for Ukrainian refugees (70-100m2)
- electricity/water
- preferably Amsterdam (or something not far)
