Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

March 2014

Enlightening read on @Tumblr research by @YahooLabs researchers: http://t.co/1qE9lEWbAB [PDF]. Turns out some of my prejudices were wrong.

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~RT @YahooLabs: Article from @techreview on new @tumblr research: techre.vu/P8vtyM // My perception of Tumblr: xkcd.com/1025/

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“While there’re many platforms, research focuses [too much] on “â@zeynepearxiv.org/abs/1403.7400iT (vi@arkaitztz)

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@moustaki Wow, thanks for the RT. Hadn’t seen this :-)

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motherboard Algorithms aren’t only writing stories; they’re breaking them: bit.ly/QnFRDX

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@jeffposnick (The YT code’s out-commented.) Share your code? With http://t.co/hXBhdxI4tv, how can you get access to the <video> in <iframe>?

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Have been playing w/ : hypervideo.herokuapp.com (“View Page Source”, then “Inspect Element”). Great technology!

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Some unrelated Facebook photos in recent galleries of @mediagalleries were caused by FB’s non-existent phrase search: http://t.co/exJHX9ktz3

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The Evolution of Automated #BreakingNews Stories http://t.co/oZCXLLu9eK My work on @mediagalleries in the MIT @TechReview!

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RT @twitter: Photos are getting more social. We’re unveiling two new features: photo tagging & adding up to 4 photos per Tweet: https://t.c…

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Knowledge Base Completion via Search-Based Question Answering by West et al. http://t.co/mPmRDvaZ4F [PDF] #Google #KnowledgeGraph #WWW2014

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@mparramon Yeah, this paper and demo triggered the interest of some news media :-)

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@LeonDerczynski BLP = http://t.co/uvGjvm3Zco. IMHO looks like a smear campaign :-( It’s 2012 “news” after all.

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On @Flipboard’s new adaptive magazine layout algorithm: http://t.co/xIwg5HwzPW (via @paul_irish, CC: @Vjeux @rtroncy @RubenVerborgh)

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wsREST The workshop program is now online: ws-rest.org/2014/program

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The @EFF on @GettyImages’ move allowing to use their images for “free” (free cost, but not free use): https://t.co/zbBGuXuKLK.

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RT @sympapadopoulos: #somus2014 program is just out, featuring keynotes by @Benoit_Huet and @fnack and 8 papers. See you at @ICMR2014 ! htt…

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@prushforth @RubenVerborgh You may follow the thread from here http://t.co/DwuZnWijMK, this should shine some light on the tweet.

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Best(!) explanation of yet: @RubenVerborgh: [Remove search box on Google] “Everybody knows you just need to type in /?q=query”.

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RT @ph_singer: Computing Semantic Relatedness from Human Navigational Paths: A Case Study on Wikipedia (IJSWIS Journal) http://t.co/cSl9IBE 

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~RT @GoogleCR: [B]ei @GoogleDE & arbeiten daran, besser auf Katastrophen [zu reagieren] > I’m learning to use http://t.co/8FfM0wvze5 for DE!

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@mrowebot Yeah, also loving the raw, honest look :-)

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, you can still use w/ Google’s DNS servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4. Propagate: pic.twitter.com/8p7x9ZwE2i (via @paulmasonnews @kwelle)

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The evolution of in only two years: pic.twitter.com/NgCl69fSo7 (via @frischkopp)

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mattcutts Ed Snowden spoke (virtually) at . His video: on.ted.com/a0531 and the NSA response: on.ted.com/c04vd

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RT @amasad: when I said PHP wasn’t so bad at facebook, this is what I meant https://t.co/8wFYWOAcw7

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Somehow #Chrome v33+ broke the #io13/#io12 slide deck print feature: https://t.co/H71Lx5fQYK. Working in Safari. // CC: @ebidel @Paul_Kinlan

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RT @bkeegan: “Telling Breaking News Stories from Wikipedia with Social Multimedia.” #arXiv cc @WikiResearch http://t.co/prZYJLuRlo

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My Twitter bots @WikiLiveMon & @mediagalleries are now running on the same Node.js instance→Less traffic for thia API. Winning.

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@DocXavi Thanks :-) With Kim (Gabarro) we had briefly considered you for the committee, but too many UPC members already, so never mind.

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Paper on #Facebook’s “human-level” #DeepFace face recognition algorithm by Taigman et al.: https://t.co/Z7jKYi2KMN [PDF]

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Telling Stories from w/ Social Multimedia: A Case Study of on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/1403.4289 @WikiResearch

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The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in #BigData Analysis, paper by Lazer et al. on #GoogleFluTrends predictions: http://t.co/CwHcmftYI9 [PDF]

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MonsieurAZ Registration open to the Web Intelligence Summer School on the Web of Data. ow.ly/upFl0

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There’s now a “#RepublicOfCrimea”, unacknowledged by most nations: https://t.co/2OUTmRfi6t (via @WikiLiveMon @mediagalleries) #Crimea

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All Apple would need to do is allow people to disable itmss: protocol handling on iOS. @pschiller, please? https://t.co/z58eagvQUa (ad!)

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Debug #iOS ad crap flow: use (online) cURL (http://t.co/NGjj4EBezz), set iOS User-Agent (http://t.co/Uwb6KjlTRV), GET http://t.co/cYK4qEoza5

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This #iOS custom URL scheme hijacking crap that auto-opens the App Store has to STOP: http://t.co/cYK4qEoza5 (real ad(!), opens App Store)

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@_tomchristie Fair enough ;-) The server was simply the last thing I looked at when debugging… Still banging my head ;-)

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’s built-in SimpleHTTPServer (“python -m SimpleHTTPServer”) doesn’t support byte range reqs, so video seeking won’t work.

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#PopcornTime’s gone now, but the code’s still on https://t.co/qqYCygPQaA. Apparently http://t.co/MPjTBlOsgk is the central point of failure.

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Excellent set of #NodeJS and #npm hints from the good folks over at @Heroku: https://t.co/6E9xcpuYur

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Both @WikiLiveMon and @mediagalleries Twitter bots will be down over the weekend due to a server move; wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com unaffected.

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#NodeJS profiling w/ #WebKit #DevTools Agent https://t.co/mNkLPmaRnz and https://t.co/Abf5gWuP0q WebKit DevTools Agent Frontend. Impressed.

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RT @timbray: Grmf. JSON isn’t actually a subset of JavaScript. http://t.co/y4kuoecKyc

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RT @mathias: Opera 20 disables support for CSP 1.1 paths, to prevent most of @homakov’s cross-domain info leak attacks: http://t.co/bytEhZG 

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@tcurdt Did you manage to download it?

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@rtroncy Thanks. However, I guess I won’t make it to Crete.

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Finally got a date for the public defense of : 2014-05-20 (xkcd.com/1179/ style) in Barcelona UPC Campus, details tbd.

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@PFCdgayo #SixWordPeerReview to the rescue ;-) “Described system didn’t change the Web. Reject.” http://t.co/Lf1cAkiwqY

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#iOS 7.1 supports #AirPlay discovery via #Bluetooth http://t.co/hwnpB79hef Au Revoir, #Bonjour http://t.co/lDcVPCBsS6, also lists Bluetooth!

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We’re hiring for Sales-Engineer-type #jobs at #Google #Hamburg—or less attractive pitch: be my colleague https://t.co/Km4rORHXKX

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@rtroncy Check the last paragraph of http://t.co/aCzjQBw4Ah, engineers are already looking at it. Thanks for the pointer, though!

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@RubenVerborgh @moustaki Was more aiming at cache expiry… Given today’s mostly static data sources, but then, there’live.dbpedia.orgl0

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@RubenVerborgh Great remark, @moustaki! @RubenVerborgh, any insights/recommendations in/for the caching strategy (in-memory & HTTP)?

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The current gallery http://t.co/I7C2wozTF1 of @mediagalleries for #MH370 http://t.co/cvw4B0A7Ac is a quite representative mix of sources.

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Finally #Wikidata has a proper reference (and overview) publication: http://t.co/6VKIFmwT8Z [PDF] by @vrandezo and @ma_kr.

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.@RubenVerborgh: “Towards Web-scale Web querying”: why #SPARQL is n’t the answer & how @LDFragments changes this.
http://t.co/PlqAhHLBXi

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#Yahoo! rumored to buy @SindiceTech: http://t.co/1wCsDeSVJL. If true, huge success for the team! (via @ericaxel)

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RT @lucas_gonze: This post mortem on the Persona project is smart and useful: https://t.co/RryBNgv6Rw

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.@DHTMLConf <a href=”#” onclick=”javascript:document.write(‘Looks like was all about screens’);”>Click</a> twitpic.com/dxoa6p

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RT @philbarker: Oh look, YouTube video pages have #schema_org microdata. Have I been missing that for long? http://t.co/322Kk5vye2 http://t…

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@jospang I’m co-running @wsREST and have a paper at . I might still stop by at SNOW2014… See you in Seoul!

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@jospang SNOW2014 looks like one of the more interesting workshops! Reg. travel, I’m flying via Helsinki w/ Finnair. @RevealEU: great blog!

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RT @timbray: IETF revised the JSON spec. There’s actually some useful stuff in the new RFC7159: https://t.co/tE1Bk3813R

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@jospang Reading your Twitter bio (“Media Man”), know my latest project @mediagalleries? Based on breaking news candidates via @WikiLiveMon.

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@jospang Yepp, will be there :-) See you in Seoul, Gangnam style!

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Someone tried to reverse-engineer ranking factors in Google Scholar, calling it Academic #SEO (#ASEO): http://t.co/1oggHNiyj8 (via @kwelle)

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If I were in charge of @Yahoo!’s PR or if I was @marissamayer, I’d keep the ‘!’, but kill the . But I’m neither.

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team have made avail. a -based corpus of Web tables of mostly tabular data (not layout) webdatacommons.org/webtables/

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@BarnabyWalters Confusing mix of “&#xD;\n” in content.html and “\r\n” in content.value. Looks weird, but /me not an XML expert. May be good.

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@BarnabyWalters Ah, found it. Parser’s correct, the sample isn’t :-) Search for <article class=”h-entry>, note the missing “. Fixed & works!

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Getting started w/ #microformats2 http://t.co/DJ5YGoteQo. @BarnabyWalters, is http://t.co/hJQFoP2K1A 100% correct w/ single elem & > 1 type?

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The @AtomEditor invite is gone. (Sorry @renepickhardt, it said DM email, repo doesn’t serve. Just request one here atom.io).

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I have a spare @AtomEditor invitation. Atom (atom.io) is ’s new text editor. DM me your email if you want the invite.

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RT @jteevan: I’ve written a lot about attending conferences with kids. But I can also argue in favor of conferencing alone: http://t.co/ZuY…

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#Yahoo! to stop user access of services w/ #Facebook & #Google IDs: http://t.co/BROBHU1aqt. @marissamayer’s next big move: #authentication.

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googleresearch Call for Participation: Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Challenge! Learn how you can participate at goo.gl/MfEfVi

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#Wikipedia as a Time Machine—Overview paper on time-aware Wikipedia IR by @stewhir et al. http://t.co/aoLs9o8CbE @WikiResearch

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@dret Restructured? Fsck :( Unsure if helpful, but https://t.co/9DquZTUleM (ping me). Return to academia hard? Probably. No @wsREST? Bummer.

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@dret Funemployment? No more EMC Corporation? Back to academia? Or just a vacation? Will you attend @wsREST?

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@dvanliere Looking at the recent convos on analytics@[…], it looks like the realtime page views API has fallen off the prio list?! Correct?

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Large-scale IP geolocation w/ Google BigQuery based on the CC-licensed GeoLite City tables from MaxMind: http://t.co/FDLvMry8qM

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Hit by “Your system has run out of application memory” issue on #MacOSX #Mavericks: https://t.co/EM4iIrrOtr, https://t.co/wAO9SSEc0T :-(

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@informor @MrGreenH OK, still great. Now all I need is a business reason to get me to New York ;-) Thanks for the invitation.

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@rtroncy Yay! I was monitoring @MrGreenH’s GitHub repo, so I knew what they were up to ;-) Looking forward to meeting the @seenco folk(s?).

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Before , paper at workshop Telling Stories from w/ Social Multimedia: @mediagalleries.

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Awaiting : poster on Bots vs. Wikipedians in track, paper on Weaving the Web(VTT) of Data in & co-running @wsREST!

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RT @RubenVerborgh: Awesome! All three #LDOW2014 papers I worked on accepted. Stay tuned for more :-)
thx @tomayac, @natadimou, @Miel_vds, @…

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@abursuc Congratulations! Enjoy the new challenges coming with !

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~RT @bkeegan: A writeup of my analysis and thoughts about whether #Wikipedia can predict #Oscar wins: http://t.co/mMCySib3b0 // Great post!

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@rtroncy We are on it. Again, it’s mostly a confidence problem and it’s rather complex for a tweet ;-)

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@rtroncy The biggest issue here is confidence. You don’t want to report people dead to $Google_Users_Count until you’re absolutely certain…

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is a proposed extension to that brings enhancements to its syntax json5.org (via @dret, @mnot) // Make it so!

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@ReaderMeter Looking at what dominates @mediagalleries and @WikiLiveMon, I can only back your observations regarding .

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in making fun of the Spanish crisis—escape of the nation’s brightest brainpic.twitter.com/zKyaxEulfHfH :( vi@rogerforcadada

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