Photo from a Facebook friend. Starbucks at Shenzhen Airport in China.

Checkout our team's recent paper where we took a deep dive into why multi-task learning models work well for post-click conversion prediction: arxiv.org/abs/2108.13475

If you put it this way you see how ridiculous the labour shortage and #Brexit is. vm.tiktok.com/ZMR3mVNMT/

Learning from Label Proportions: This line of research tries to learn from grouped training data where only aggregated group label is provided much like the recent change in Ads eco system. It also proofs that you can get good instance label prediction. arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5902.…

Preliminary evidence suggests new Covid variant B.1.1.529 carries higher risk of reinfection than other variants, World Health Organization says bbc.in/30WLfap

⚠️⛈️ #StormEunice - be prepared⛈️ ⚠️ With #Storm Eunice set to hit Surrey tomorrow, we are urging you to take extra care when out driving on the roads. ☔ Friday 0500 - 2100 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Advice 👉 bit.ly/3JDD97N Stay #WeatherAware⚠️

We describe a method for maximising long term engagements by using model-based reinforcement learning. The policy is then used to make decisions about whether to send push notifications or not. More details are in the paper if you are interested. arxiv.org/abs/2202.08812

Good news at the end of the week. We are pleased to announce the reproducibility track for #RecSys2022: recsys.acm.org/recsys22/call/… Let me repeat that... here is the call for reproducibility papers for #RecSys2022!

This month I joined @TwitterResearch to work on their search and recommendation. I'm very excited to work with some amazing RecSys practitioners and apply my research knowledge in an actual real-world setting!😃 It's 20% part-time, mainly I'm still assist. prof. at Radboud Uni.

The #ECIR2022 industry poster session is very popular! Check out the two nice posters from my colleagues @Twitter 🙂 jjh

Only two photos I took in NYC 🤣

Postdoc on Probabilistic Machine Learning with Zoubin Ghahramani and me in Cambridge. If you know anyone interested, please encourage them (or yourself) to apply. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/34849/

Two pictures from Miami

Speaking as someone who has worked on anti-spam against determined adversaries, I found this a nice, thoughtful thread on the reality of spam. Thank you Parag Agrawal.

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We had a partial magic pony reunion tonight. Someone suggested starting another compression startup. Maybe call it mgc pny