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Looks like EU funding of #FLOSS will continue: "Open digital infrastructure, from search and identity to cloud and software governance, is now a strategic European priority."

NGI Forum 2025 marks a strategic shift from Next Generation Internet toward the Open Internet Stack
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum 2025, the flagship event of the European Commission’s NGI initiative, took place in Brussels on 19-20 June, with over 200 on-site participants and many more via web stream. The Forum focused on accelerating the shift from research and experimentation to the deployment of sovereign, open digital infrastructures.

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Exactly.
AVON: You really are insane, aren't you?
DORIAN: By now I probably would be.
AVON: If it wasn't for this mysterious room.
DORIAN: And what it contains.
SOOLIN: [Enters] And what might that be, Dorian?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/467…

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Cognitive Guardrails for Open-World Decision Making in Autonomous Drone Swarms
Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (sUAS) are increasingly deployed as autonomous swarms in search-and-rescue and other disaster-response scenarios. In these settings, they use computer vision (CV) to detect objects of interest and autonomously adapt their missions. However, traditional CV systems often struggle to recognize unfamiliar objects in open-world environments or to infer their relevance for mission planning. To address this, we incorporate large language models (LLMs) to reason about dete…

"Comparative review on Primo Research Assistant, Scopus AI, Web of Science Research Assistant and a explainer for AI search for librarians" by Aaron Tay: https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2025/05/comparative-review-…

When LLMs Disagree: Diagnosing Relevance Filtering Bias and Retrieval Divergence in SDG Search
William A. Ingram, Bipasha Banerjee, Edward A. Fox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02139 …

When LLMs Disagree: Diagnosing Relevance Filtering Bias and Retrieval Divergence in SDG Search
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assign document relevance labels in information retrieval pipelines, especially in domains lacking human-labeled data. However, different models often disagree on borderline cases, raising concerns about how such disagreement affects downstream retrieval. This study examines labeling disagreement between two open-weight LLMs, LLaMA and Qwen, on a corpus of scholarly abstracts related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1, 3, and 7. We is…

Check out my new “Media Literacy Roundup: 2 August 2025” newsletter on SubStack!
https://open.substack.com/pub/wfryer/p/media-literacy-roundup-2-august-2025?r=d4phj&utm_campaign=post&u…

Media Literacy Roundup: 2 August 2025
Media, Links and Reflections from Wes Fryer

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections
Ying-Hsiang Huang, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961 …

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections
We present Digital Collections Explorer, a web-based, open-source exploratory search platform that leverages CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) for enhanced visual discovery of digital collections. Our Digital Collections Explorer can be installed locally and configured to run on a visual collection of interest on disk in just a few steps. Building upon recent advances in multimodal search techniques, our interface enables natural language queries and reverse image searches over dig…

Baidu plans to open-source its Ernie LLM on June 30; some say this could cement China's AI leadership, while others doubt it will be a "DeepSeek moment" (Kevin Williams/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/china-bigg

China's biggest public AI drop since DeepSeek, Baidu's open source Ernie, is about to hit the market
Chinese internet search giant Baidu will open source its Ernie gen AI large language model as soon as this week, with uncertain consequences for the market.

> As the Court weighs how to restore competition in the search market, Mozilla is asking it to seriously consider the unintended consequences of some of the proposed remedies, which, if adopted, could harm browser competition, weaken user choice and undermine the open web.
This should be called a Mozilla syndrome!

The future of the web depends on getting this right | The Mozilla Blog
The remedies phase of the U.S. v. Google LLC search case wrapped up last week. As the Court weighs how to restore competition in the search market, Mozilla

Modern search demands scalable personalisation. Join Piotr Kobziakowski
at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to discover how Vespa's multi-stage ranking and tensor framework can be used for hybrid queries, multimodal retrieval, and real-time machine learning. Learn how to deploy low-latency, high-relevance search systems at petabyte scale.
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Vespa.ai’s Personalized Search: Advanced Ranking & Tensor framework
Today’s applications require search engines to unify text, vectors, and business logic with millisecond latency at petabyte scale. It’s not easy to balance speed, relevance, and personalization for a large user population and a billion scale item base. Vespa.ai, the open-source engine powering Yahoo, Perplexity, Qwant, Vinted, Spotify addresses this through multi-stage ranking with close to data tensor operations and easy to understand custom functions. Vespa’s phased architecture enables…

Can a Dark Inferno Melt Earth's Core?
Christopher Cappiello, Tansu Daylan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24070 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Can a Dark Inferno Melt Earth's Core?
The search for dark matter is one of the crucial open problems in both particle physics and cosmology. If dark matter scatters with Standard Model particles, it could accumulate inside the Earth and begin to annihilate, producing heat within the Earth's core. While past work has been done on the effect that this heat would have once it reached the surface, we model the flow of heat through the Earth's core by numerically solving the heat equation to model dark matter's effect on the interior of…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Iggy and The Stooges:
🎵 Search and Destroy
#IggyandTheStooges
https://bastardon.bandcamp.com/track/search-and-destroy-iggy-and-the-stooges
https://open.spotify.com/track/00sydAz6PeOxYzwG1dRIPi

We're pleased to share that Search Guard is a Silver Partner and the sponsor of our annual Get-Together!
Learn more about Search Guard: https://search-guard.com/
Join us on Monday 16 June for an evening of food, drinks and networking, generously sponsored by Search Guard. It's the perf…

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DeepResearchGym: A Free, Transparent, and Reproducible Evaluation Sandbox for Deep Research
Deep research systems represent an emerging class of agentic information retrieval methods that generate comprehensive and well-supported reports to complex queries. However, most existing frameworks rely on dynamic commercial search APIs, which pose reproducibility and transparency challenges in addition to their cost. To address these limitations, we introduce DeepResearchGym, an open-source sandbox that combines a reproducible search API with a rigorous evaluation protocol for benchmarking d…

TokenSmith: Streamlining Data Editing, Search, and Inspection for Large-Scale Language Model Training and Interpretability
Mohammad Aflah Khan, Ameya Godbole, Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Ryan Wang, James Flemings, Krishna Gummadi, Willie Neiswanger, Robin Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19419

TokenSmith: Streamlining Data Editing, Search, and Inspection for Large-Scale Language Model Training and Interpretability
Understanding the relationship between training data and model behavior during pretraining is crucial, but existing workflows make this process cumbersome, fragmented, and often inaccessible to researchers. We present TokenSmith, an open-source library for interactive editing, inspection, and analysis of datasets used in Megatron-style pretraining frameworks such as GPT-NeoX, Megatron, and NVIDIA NeMo. TokenSmith supports a wide range of operations including searching, viewing, ingesting, expor…

Als Nicht-Entwickler kann man auch zu Open-Source Projekten beitragen.
Ich bin happy, daß ich für #n8n, einem no-code Prozess-Automatisierungstool mein zweites Template beitragen konnte:

The UK CMA says it has provisionally found Google meets the legal tests to designate it with "strategic market status" in general search and search advertising (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/26aa105f-fabb-4061-bd6d-fd13ba94f691

UK regulator proposes loosening Google’s control of its search engine
Competition and Markets Authority says market should be more open and competitive

Searching for radio pulsars in old open clusters from the Parkes archive
S. B. Zhang, J. J. Wei, X. Yang, S. Dai, J. S. Wang, L. Toomey, S. Q. Wang, G. Hobbs, X. F. Wu, L. Staveley-Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19236

Searching for radio pulsars in old open clusters from the Parkes archive
Motivated by the discovery of a pulsar in the direction of the old open cluster NGC 6791, we conducted a search for radio pulsars in archival Parkes observations targeting similar old open clusters. We reprocessed 224 observations totalling 75.02 hours from four clusters: Theia 1661, NGC 6259, Pismis 3, and Trumpler 20. Our analysis identified five known pulsars and three new rotating radio transient (RRAT) candidates. By comparing the measured dispersion measures (DMs) with the expected DM val…

I’ve been using Kagi for search for a while and using the Orion browser ever since Arc was shutdown. Its got some flakiness and not all the features of Arc (mainly missing the ability to sync my pinned pages and what I have open) https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/113074391235397771

First use of large area SiPM matrices coupled with NaI(Tl) scintillating crystal for low energy dark matter search
Edoardo Martinenghi, Valerio Toso, Fabrizio Bruno Armani, Andrea Castoldi, Giuseppe di Carlo, Luca Frontini, Niccol\`o Gallice, Chiara Guazzoni, Valentino Liberali, Alberto Stabile, Valeria Trabattoni, Andrea Zani, Davide D'Angelo
https://

First use of large area SiPM matrices coupled with NaI(Tl) scintillating crystal for low energy dark matter search
The long-standing claim of dark matter detection by the DAMA experiment remains a crucial open question in astroparticle physics. A key step towards its independent verification is the development of NaI(Tl)-based detectors with improved sensitivity at low energies. The majority of NaI(Tl)-based experiments rely on conventional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) as single photon detectors, which present technological limitations in terms of light collection, intrinsic radioactivity and a high noise c…

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
AVON: Don't worry. At the right time, I will remind you of it.
[Flight deck]
VILA: [Accepts cup from Jenna and swallows pill] Thanks.
JENNA: [To Blake who has just entered flight deck with Avon] You all right?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/242

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Mixture of Encoders is a vector-native alternative that models both structured and unstructured data in a unified embedding space. Join Filip Makraduli as he introduces the method, demonstrates how it powers natural language search and real-time recommendations, and shares open-source tools and benchmarks for replacing complex hybrid stacks.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Peaches:
🎵 Search And Destroy
#Peaches
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Paper Alert!
"Embedding-Based Multilingual Semantic Search for Geo-Textual Data in Urban Studies," is published in @…
I developed an open-source, lightweight method to map phenomena using natural language, like "cherry blossom spots" or "skate parks", based on user-generated data.
Try the demos:

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712890/itch-removes-adult-nsfw…

Itch.io follows Steam in removing adult games
The indie-focused gaming marketplace Itch.io has abruptly deindexed adult content from its browse and search pages, bowing to demands from payment providers.

Q: how do you search a Matrix room?
A: you open my IRC logs

Deliberative Searcher: Improving LLM Reliability via Reinforcement Learning with constraints
Zhenyun Yin, Shujie Wang, Xuhong Wang, Xingjun Ma, Yinchun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16727

Deliberative Searcher: Improving LLM Reliability via Reinforcement Learning with constraints
Improving the reliability of large language models (LLMs) is critical for deploying them in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose \textbf{Deliberative Searcher}, the first framework to integrate certainty calibration with retrieval-based search for open-domain question answering. The agent performs multi-step reflection and verification over Wikipedia data and is trained with a reinforcement learning algorithm that optimizes for accuracy under a soft reliability constraint. Empirical …

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZIL: To be alone must not be feared. The Host is slow to recognize one who is alone. Though there are many, all stay alone. [Clears off a patch of ground] Do you hunger? [Tears the ground open, scoops up some of the lining of the opening and eats it.] Do you hunger?
BLAKE: What is it?
https://

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Heh, got pitched based on my Quamina open-source GitHub repo on behalf of “Fabinvest” which turns out to be a PE fund owned by Qatari royal Jassim Al-Thani. A polite and restrained pitch, not pushy or scammy.
There’s too much money in the world and its owners are increasingly desperate in their search for a place to invest it. I suppose prospecting popular GitHub repos is less crazy than other things that I see going on.

SustainDiffusion: Optimising the Social and Environmental Sustainability of Stable Diffusion Models
Giordano d'Aloisio, Tosin Fadahunsi, Jay Choy, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15663

SustainDiffusion: Optimising the Social and Environmental Sustainability of Stable Diffusion Models
Background: Text-to-image generation models are widely used across numerous domains. Among these models, Stable Diffusion (SD) - an open-source text-to-image generation model - has become the most popular, producing over 12 billion images annually. However, the widespread use of these models raises concerns regarding their social and environmental sustainability. Aims: To reduce the harm that SD models may have on society and the environment, we introduce SustainDiffusion, a search-based appr…

Monocular Vision-Based Swarm Robot Localization Using Equilateral Triangular Formations
Taewon Kang, Ji-Wook Kwon, Il Bae, Jin Hyo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19100 https://

Monocular Vision-Based Swarm Robot Localization Using Equilateral Triangular Formations
Localization of mobile robots is crucial for deploying robots in real-world applications such as search and rescue missions. This work aims to develop an accurate localization system applicable to swarm robots equipped only with low-cost monocular vision sensors and visual markers. The system is designed to operate in fully open spaces, without landmarks or support from positioning infrastructures. To achieve this, we propose a localization method based on equilateral triangular formations. By …

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZIL: To be alone must not be feared. The Host is slow to recognize one who is alone. Though there are many, all stay alone. [Clears off a patch of ground] Do you hunger? [Tears the ground open, scoops up some of the lining of the opening and eats it.] Do you hunger?
BLAKE: What is it?
https://

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Long-Term Open-Pit Mine Planning with Large Neighbourhood Search
We present a Large Neighbourhood Search based approach for solving complex long-term open-pit mine planning problems. An initial feasible solution, generated by a sliding windows heuristic, is improved through repeated solves of a restricted mixed-integer program. Each iteration leaves only a subset of the variables in the planning model free to take on new values. We form these subsets through the use of neighbourhood formation strategies that exploit model structure. We show that our approach…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Peaches:
🎵 Search And Destroy
#Peaches
https://open.spotify.com/track/0tHUdwmRvao8Hd0EV9WFSW

Context-Aware Scientific Knowledge Extraction on Linked Open Data using Large Language Models
Sajratul Y. Rubaiat, Hasan M. Jamil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17580

Context-Aware Scientific Knowledge Extraction on Linked Open Data using Large Language Models
The exponential growth of scientific literature challenges researchers extracting and synthesizing knowledge. Traditional search engines return many sources without direct, detailed answers, while general-purpose LLMs may offer concise responses that lack depth or omit current information. LLMs with search capabilities are also limited by context window, yielding short, incomplete answers. This paper introduces WISE (Workflow for Intelligent Scientific Knowledge Extraction), a system addressing…

Announcing sff: A fast, on-the-fly SemanticFileFinder written in Rust! 🦀
It scans a directory (like your notes or a repo), finds the most semantically relevant text chunks for your query, and lets you open the file in a text editor of your choice.
No vector DBs, no GPU needed. Indexes ~2500 files with 10k chunks in 250ms on a CPU.
Perfect for searching Obsidian vaults, codebases, and more.
𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚏𝚏
𝚜𝚏𝚏 "𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚐𝚒𝚝"

GitHub - do-me/sff: CLI for semantic search on your computer. Searches text files and identifies the most relevant chunks to your query.
CLI for semantic search on your computer. Searches text files and identifies the most relevant chunks to your query. - GitHub - do-me/sff: CLI for semantic search on your computer. Searches text f...

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
SELMA: Thank you.
RO: You saved my life. While I live, you'll be welcome on Horizon.
BLAKE: Still Horizon?
RO: You can't return to the past.
BLAKE: [Into bracelet] Liberator, teleport now. [To Ro and Selma] Good-bye.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/633

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The Pandora's Box Problem with Sequential Inspections
Ali Aouad, Jingwei Ji, Yaron Shaposhnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07508 https://

The Pandora's Box Problem with Sequential Inspections
The Pandora's box problem (Weitzman 1979) is a core model in economic theory that captures an agent's (Pandora's) search for the best alternative (box). We study an important generalization of the problem where the agent can either fully open boxes for a certain fee to reveal their exact values or partially open them at a reduced cost. This introduces a new tradeoff between information acquisition and cost efficiency. We establish a hardness result and employ an array of techniques in stochasti…

Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…

Surfacing Pathological Behaviors in Language Models
We train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to craft realistic natural-language prompts that elicit specified behaviors in frontier open-weight models (Llama 3.1/4, Qwen 2.5, and DeepSeek-V3), using a proposed variational lower bound to guide the search.

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
SELMA: Thank you.
RO: You saved my life. While I live, you'll be welcome on Horizon.
BLAKE: Still Horizon?
RO: You can't return to the past.
BLAKE: [Into bracelet] Liberator, teleport now. [To Ro and Selma] Good-bye.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/633

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Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator Can Solve Black-Box Combinatorial Optimization More Efficiently
Kenshin Abe, Yunzhuo Wang, Shuhei Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08053 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.08053 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.08053
arXiv:2507.08053v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tree-structured Parzen estimator (TPE) is a versatile hyperparameter optimization (HPO) method supported by popular HPO tools. Since these HPO tools have been developed in line with the trend of deep learning (DL), the problem setups often used in the DL domain have been discussed for TPE such as multi-objective optimization and multi-fidelity optimization. However, the practical applications of HPO are not limited to DL, and black-box combinatorial optimization is actively utilized in some domains, e.g., chemistry and biology. As combinatorial optimization has been an untouched, yet very important, topic in TPE, we propose an efficient combinatorial optimization algorithm for TPE. In this paper, we first generalize the categorical kernel with the numerical kernel in TPE, enabling us to introduce a distance structure to the categorical kernel. Then we discuss modifications for the newly developed kernel to handle a large combinatorial search space. These modifications reduce the time complexity of the kernel calculation with respect to the size of a combinatorial search space. In the experiments using synthetic problems, we verified that our proposed method identifies better solutions with fewer evaluations than the original TPE. Our algorithm is available in Optuna, an open-source framework for HPO.
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Learn more about OpenSearch: https://opensearch.org/

Beyond the Buzz: A Pragmatic Take on Inference Disaggregation
Tiyasa Mitra, Ritika Borkar, Nidhi Bhatia, Ramon Matas, Shivam Raj, Dheevatsa Mudigere, Ritchie Zhao, Maximilian Golub, Arpan Dutta, Sailaja Madduri, Dharmesh Jani, Brian Pharris, Bita Darvish Rouhani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05508

Beyond the Buzz: A Pragmatic Take on Inference Disaggregation
As inference scales to multi-node deployments, disaggregation - splitting inference into distinct phases - offers a promising path to improving the throughput-interactivity Pareto frontier. Despite growing enthusiasm and a surge of open-source efforts, practical deployment of disaggregated serving remains limited due to the complexity of the optimization search space and system-level coordination. In this paper, we present the first systematic study of disaggregated inference at scale, evaluati…

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STE-QUEST -- Space Time Explorer and QUantum Equivalence principle Space Test: The 2022 medium-class mission concept
Space-borne quantum technologies, particularly those based on atom interferometry, are heralding a new era of strategic and robust space exploration. The unique conditions of space, characterized by low noise and low gravity environments, open up diverse possibilities for applications ranging from precise time and frequency transfer to Earth Observation and the search of new Physics. In this paper, we summarise the M-class mission proposal in response to the 2022 call in ESA's science program: …

SPOT: Bridging Natural Language and Geospatial Search for Investigative Journalists
Lynn Khellaf, Ipek Baris Schlicht, Tilman Mirass, Julia Bayer, Tilman Wagner, Ruben Bouwmeester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13188

SPOT: Bridging Natural Language and Geospatial Search for Investigative Journalists
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a vital resource for investigative journalists doing geolocation verification. However, existing tools to query OSM data such as Overpass Turbo require familiarity with complex query languages, creating barriers for non-technical users. We present SPOT, an open source natural language interface that makes OSM's rich, tag-based geographic data more accessible through intuitive scene descriptions. SPOT interprets user inputs as structured representations of geospatial objec…

Deep Learning and Model Independence
Martin King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03438 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.03438

Deep Learning and Model Independence
The lack of evidence in favor of any new physics models means that the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) is wide open, with no direction clearly more promising than any other. This marks a turn towards what can be called `model-independent' methods-strategies that reduce the influence of modelling assumptions by performing minimally-biased precision measurements, using effective field theories, or using Deep Learning methods (DL). In this paper, I present the novel and prom…

Implementation of full and simplified likelihoods in CheckMATE
I\~naki Lara, Krzysztof Rolbiecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08565 https://

Implementation of full and simplified likelihoods in CheckMATE
We present the implementation of simplified and full likelihood models for multibin signal regions in CheckMATE. A total of 13 searches are included from ATLAS and CMS, and several methods are presented for the implementation and evaluation of likelihood functions. Statistical combinations increase the sensitivity of searches and open up the possibility of combining orthogonal search channels in the CheckMATE framework.

A huge thank you to Qdrant for sponsoring the coffee breaks at Berlin Buzzwords! We're thrilled to have their support in keeping everyone energised and connected throughout the conference.
Learn more about Qdrant here: https://qdrant.tech/

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: [Restrains Blake] Blake.
BLAKE: Renounce!
AVON: Easy, easy!
BLAKE: Renounce!
AVON: [To Cally] Tranquilizer pack!
BLAKE: Renounce! [Cally administers the tranquilizer pack. Blake subsides]

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To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: Today – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Jon Lucien:
🎵 Search For The Inner Self
#JonLucien
https://open.spotify.com/track/33nn9tbsuT7tggeViAPeDH

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: June 17, 2025 – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
AVON: Approximately six million. It was colonized in the last century of the Old Calendar. At first they resisted political affiliation, but then they joined the Federation, and they have remained unswervingly loyal.
VILA: Then they're not likely to welcome us with open arms.
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Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: He will if Orac's working. Now come on. We're wasting time. [starts to climb]
[Dayna does not follow, but continues to explore the small room. A hatch slides open in the floor.]
DAYNA: I knew it. Tarrant.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/422

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Apache Solr 9.8 introduces the LLM module, opening the doors to end-to-end natural language query support through vector-backed semantic search (K Nearest Neighbors). At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Alessandro Benedetti discussed the open-source contributions from both an indexing and query perspective, as well as what's next for Solr in terms of Large Language Model integration.
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Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]