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Ravens-Colts joint practice: A fight erupts, Indy's QB battle rages on and more takeaways from heated session

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/raven…

Fascinating bit of history
“My dad stepped in to greet the ensemble – and then in came The King”: Billy Gibbons shares the story of the “treasured moment” he sat in on a B.B. King session – as a child | Guitar World https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitar

“My dad stepped in to greet the ensemble – and then in came The King”: Billy Gibbons shares the story of the “treasured moment” he sat in on a B.B. King session – as a child
Long before he got the chance to pick it up for himself, the ZZ Top man found himself in a truly formative session with an icon of electric guitar

Rethinking Contrastive Learning in Session-based Recommendation
Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Fenglong Ma, Zhizheng Wang, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05044

Rethinking Contrastive Learning in Session-based Recommendation
Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. With the ability in alleviating data sparsity, contrastive learning is prevailing in the task. However, we spot that existing contrastive learning based methods still suffer from three obstacles: (1) they overlook item-level sparsity and primarily focus on session-level sparsity; (2) they typically augment sessions using item IDs like crop, mask and reorder, failing to ensure the semantic consist…

from my link log —
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability.
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident
saved 2025-05-27

BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability

Still some time to come over to TU Berlin to talk about "Fascist AI" with us.
(Elevator is broken so follow to posted signs that lead you to another elevator and then the session location)

and, 50 years ago today, following the dead session at ace’s, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley with a mystery drummer, presumably the same as the previous show. bob menke/louis falenga audience tape:

Fixed a recently reported, asan-caught UaF in ngscopeclient earlier today when loading session files containing a protocol analyzer.
Apparently the analyzer never called AddRef() / Release() on the filter and could thus outlive it.
Yet another reason why the planned refactoring of filter ownership to use std::shared_ptr's rather than manual hand refcounting can't come soon enough. Just need to ship v0.1 first...

Luvleelou - we'll make it out alive (live session)
#music

I'm nervous but looking forward to it. (For non-Australians, this small town writing festival is one of the bigger ones in Australia). Should be a lot of fun. We're kicking it off on the main stage. #permaculture #writing

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Lau Noah live in session
Soweto presents live music by Spanish vocalist and guitarist Lau Noah, recorded live onstage in the Barbican Foyer.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026s7z

At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, @… presented Airflow 3. Learn how to improve your data engineering and AI/ML workflows with what the Airflow 3 community has been working on for the last 12 months.
Watch the full session:

Mid-practice fight ends Giants' OTA session early: 'Heat got to us' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6406146/2025/06/05/giants-fight-practice-brian-burns/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10018 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

LEMON-Mapping: Loop-Enhanced Large-Scale Multi-Session Point Cloud Merging and Optimization for Globally Consistent Mapping
Multi-robot collaboration is becoming increasingly critical and presents significant challenges in modern robotics, especially for building a globally consistent, accurate map. Traditional multi-robot pose graph optimization (PGO) methods ensure basic global consistency but ignore the geometric structure of the map, and only use loop closures as constraints between pose nodes, leading to divergence and blurring in overlapping regions. To address this issue, we propose LEMON-Mapping, a loop-enha…

A number of distros are a bit behind, but FreeBSD also has Plasma 6.4.2 in the repos. Hope they get the Wayland session fixed for it, it goes to show they are very much on the front foot here. If so KDE would easily become the nr. 1 desktop in BSD land.
#freebsd #kde

Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.
Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists came about these wins, however, is more of a mystery.

Billions of Cookies Up For Grabs As Experts Warn Over Session Security - Slashdot
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/0020249/billions-of-cookies-up-for-grabs-as-experts-warn-over-session-security

Session-Based Recommendation with Validated and Enriched LLM Intents
Gyuseok Lee, Yaokun Liu, Yifan Liu, Susik Yoon, Dong Wang, SeongKu Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00570 htt…

Session-Based Recommendation with Validated and Enriched LLM Intents
Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to predict the next item for an anonymous user in a timely manner. However, SBR suffers from data sparsity due to the short and anonymous nature of sessions. Recently, an emerging line of work has explored inferring the underlying user intents of a session using large language models (LLMs), with the generated intents serving as auxiliary training signals to enhance SBR models. Despite its promise, this approach faces three key challenges: validating inte…

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead at ace’s studio, the last extended “blues for allah” tape, the 1st (& only) full album session with mickey hart. date identified when the cops show up & comedy (of course) ensues.
tape 1:

In den 1980ern (und auch später noch) gab es in den USA eine gute Handvoll Session-Musiker, die in unterschiedlichen Konstellationen auf fast allen erfolgreichen Alben aus dieser Zeit mitgewirkt haben. Der Film "The Immediate Family" ist die Dokumentation dazu, und gestern ist mir der – mit einem völlig anderen Titel – durch die YouTube-Timeline gerutscht. Wer von euch an Rockmusik aus den 1980ern interessiert ist, enjoy:

"UN meeting closes with no moratorium on deep-sea mining; groups lament"
#UN #UnitedNations #DeepSeaMining

UN meeting closes with no moratorium on deep-sea mining; groups lament
Civil groups expressed dismay as the 30th International Seabed Authority (ISA) session recently ended in Jamaica without a moratorium on deep-sea mining, a process of extracting minerals from the seafloor, which experts say can damage marine ecosystems. The ISA Council finished the second reading of the draft regulations for the commercial exploitation of deep-sea minerals. However, the […]

Deadlock-free Context-free Session Types
Andreia Mordido, Jorge A. P\'erez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20356 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Deadlock-free Context-free Session Types
We consider the problem of statically ensuring that message-passing programs never run into deadlocks. We focus on concurrent functional programs governed by context-free session types, which can express rich tree-like structures not expressible in standard session types. Existing techniques based on context-free session types enforce protocol conformance but not deadlock freedom. We propose a type system that enhances context-free session types with a priority-based approach to deadlock freedo…

Just had a 45-minute session of picking blackberries in my garden, during which 7 passenger trains passed by on the Bethnal Green and Kings Lynn line. That seems like a remarkable frequency of services for a Sunday, I wonder if there's something unusual happening. #railway

Ich würde sagen, der Tomatensaucenfleck am Hemd ist dezent genug für eine Info-Session eines Exzellenzclusters.

Heute beginnt wieder die @… in Berlin. Zusammen mit @… biete ich heute ein Meetup zum Thema Fediverse an. Dezentrale Social Media können den gesellschaftlich-digitalen Diskurs von plattform-ökonomischen Geschäftsmodell-Inte…

Fediverse-Meetup - Celebration of the Fediverse | re:publica

The Trinity Session
Cowboy Junkies
1988
There is something uniquely Canadian about The Trinity Session. The Trinity Session is a beautiful piece of folk #Canadiana an album that is far more than the sum of its parts – but whose parts, if you really give them your full attention, stand up perfectly well on their own.

29 Jul 2025 webinar: That Doesn't Need to Be a PDF
Hear how agencies can design an HTML-first approach for electronic content using “@media print” for a superior printing experience (because yes, some people do use paper) during a panel discussion with experts from FDIC, USAB, and GSA when a PDF document is the proper solution.
h…

Thanks to all participants at our morning workshop on #PublicTransport and #AI!
Now everyone is gathering for the official #AGIT2025 opening session with many exciting new changes
Cc

Filipe Miranda – Movimento
#acoustic

In a filing, the Newhouse family, which owns Condé Nast, says it plans to sell 100M WBD shares worth around $1.1B total; $WBD falls 4% (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/warner-bros-discovery-stock-sale-newhouse-family/

Warner Bros. Discovery Stock Falls as Newhouse Family Sells $1.1 Billion in Shares
The media giant's shares tumbled over 4% during Tuesday's trading session after the Condé Nast owners sold 100 million shares

Mike Macdonald: 'Crazy' to ask if Sam Darnold will be Seahawks starting QB https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-macdonald-crazy-to-ask-if-sam-darnold-will-be-seahawks-starting-qb

Tolle Session über uns auf der #rp25 🤩

How to tell a vibe coder of lying when they say they check their code.
People who will admit to using LLMs to write code will usually claim that they "carefully check" the output since we all know that LLM code has a lot of errors in it. This is insufficient to address several problems that LLMs cause, including labor issues, digital commons stress/pollution, license violation, and environmental issues, but at least it's they are checking their code carefully we shouldn't assume that it's any worse quality-wise than human-authored code, right?
Well, from principles alone we can expect it to be worse, since checking code the AI wrote is a much more boring task than writing code yourself, so anyone who has ever studied human-computer interaction even a little bit can predict people will quickly slack off, stating to trust the AI way too much, because it's less work. I'm a different domain, the journalist who published an entire "summer reading list" full of nonexistent titles is a great example of this. I'm sure he also intended to carefully check the AI output, but then got lazy. Clearly he did not have a good grasp of the likely failure modes of the tool he was using.
But for vibe coders, there's one easy tell we can look for, at least in some cases: coding in Python without type hints. To be clear, this doesn't apply to novice coders, who might not be aware that type hints are an option. But any serious Python software engineer, whether they used type hints before or not, would know that they're an option. And if you know they're an option, you also know they're an excellent tool for catching code defects, with a very low effort:reward ratio, especially if we assume an LLM generates them. Of the cases where adding types requires any thought at all, 95% of them offer chances to improve your code design and make it more robust. Knowing about but not using type hints in Python is a great sign that you don't care very much about code quality. That's totally fine in many cases: I've got a few demos or jam games in Python with no type hints, and it's okay that they're buggy. I was never going to debug them to a polished level anyways. But if we're talking about a vibe coder who claims that they're taking extra care to check for the (frequent) LLM-induced errors, that's not the situation.
Note that this shouldn't be read as an endorsement of vibe coding for demos or other rough-is-acceptable code: the other ethical issues I skipped past at the start still make it unethical to use in all but a few cases (for example, I have my students use it for a single assignment so they can see for themselves how it's not all it's cracked up to be, and even then they have an option to observe a pre-recorded prompt session instead).

What's a good number of presentations to fit in a conference day?
NIME (a single-track conference with low acceptance rate), fits in about 14 presentations of various lengths (all pretty darn short - 5, 10, or 15 mins), amongst a couple of other sessions. They have 5 papers per 90 minute session. https://nime2025.org/program/

A quick reminder: The Standard Ticket sale for Berlin Buzzwords 2025 ends on Monday, June 9th!
If you're planning to attend in person from June 15-17, make sure to purchase your ticket before the deadline. Last Minute Tickets will be available afterwards at a higher rate.
Get ready for the conference – buy your ticket now: h…

Tickets
Join us for two days of exciting talks, workshops and discussions, and of course our barcamp on Sunday! Berlin Buzzwords will take place as a hybrid conference online and in our venue Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.

Goodness, does this mean we can expect a strongly-worded letter next? https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/114675920702558762

I decided to share some of my observations that would benefit you if you are building applications: a deep dive session into the archetypes of attackers.
This session is for people who are developing software of any kind. It could be an API endpoint, a blog, or a complex application used by millions.
Join in or share with smart people.
Let me help you!

Now at #tdose in Katoen kamer, Tessel Renzenbrink from @… presenting an "Ask Us Anything" talk on getting really easy funding for your project.
@…

and also 50 years ago today, following the dead session at ace’s, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley with a mystery drummer. menke/falenga audience tape, quality getting better as it goes:

I used to think "Hey, AI could help with tedious editing chores".
I no longer think that.

Was für Typen sitzen da eigentlich in der #Knesset? Unerträglich die Ignoranz gegenüber Menschlichkeit, Rechtsstaatlichkeit.
Ignoranz und Dummheit gepaart mit Geltungsdrang und Selbstherrlichkeitswahn.
#Malinovsky
#UNRWA

Israeli lawmaker shows off keys to locked UNRWA Headquarters in Jerusalem in Knesset session – Middle East Monitor

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🚀 Am 08.09. startet die diesjährige Edirom Summer School! Wir freuen uns auf eine spannende Woche mit Themen rund um digitale Editionen, TEI, MEI, FDM und vieles mehr. Die Anmeldung läuft noch bis zum 30.08. und es sind noch Plätze frei!
Es wird auch eine Poster Session geben (Bewerbungsfrist 15.08.), schickt hierfür eine kurze Beschreibung eures Beitrags an das ESS-Team.
➡️ Weitere Infos dazu, zum Programm und der Anmeldung, findet ihr hier:

At the #igf2025 session on encryption and safety, they seem to be more interested in talking about tertiary issues like funding and skills shortage, but only after having the FBI share their perspectives.
Not a useful session, too one-sided, and with too little discussion on principles that actually help solve the balancing issues. 😟
E.g. principles like "Do not introduce solution…

IGF 2025: WS #241 Balancing Acts 2.0: Can Encrypti...
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Part Chimp:
🎵 USisA (6 Music Session, 4 Jul 2025)
#PartChimp
https://partchimp.bandcamp.com/track/usisa

This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol https://www.404media.co/queer-online-zine-new-session-telnet/

Das Re in Re:Publica steht für retro: Man kann da noch die alten Blockchain Versprechen wieder aufwärmen. (Wahrscheinlich einfach Förderprogramm ausgelaufen und jetzt kann man seinen Spielzeug Case vorstellen.
"Regenwälder mit Blockchains retten" https://

Enjoing a few days with the GNU TALER team at a castle in Switzerland. The wallet can carry real electronic cash and even used for offline transactions. Technology is ready to be used, not based on blockchain and really free software.Pilot regions are now being onboarded. I moderated a branding and an #ERPnext demo session and submitted a proposal for @…

The Guitar Practice Blueprint - GUITARHABITS
#guitar #technique

The Guitar Practice Blueprint - GUITARHABITS
Master your guitar practice routine with The Guitar Practice Blueprint. Build technique, play better, and make every session count.

The Senate has been preparing for a key procedural vote during a rare Saturday session as Republicans race to pass President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline.
Watch the Senate floor live in the PBS player

WATCH LIVE: Senate convenes ahead of possible vote on Trump's big budget bill
Senators were expected to take a procedural vote Saturday to begin debate on the legislation, but the timing was uncertain and there is a long path ahead, with at least 10 hours of debate time and an all-night voting session on countless amendments.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17589 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…

An Offline Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Customized for Multi-Task Fusion in Large-Scale Recommender Systems
As the last critical stage of RSs, Multi-Task Fusion (MTF) is responsible for combining multiple scores outputted by Multi-Task Learning (MTL) into a final score to maximize user satisfaction, which determines the ultimate recommendation results. Recently, to optimize long-term user satisfaction within a recommendation session, Reinforcement Learning (RL) is used for MTF in the industry. However, the offline RL algorithms used for MTF so far have the following severe problems: 1) to avoid out-o…

If you want a way to spend 90 minutes with other people who hoard, while getting support and motivation to get on with some dehoarding work as we chat, come along to this evening's Dehoarding Accountability Zoom Session! Grab a ticket at https://overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/ticket…

Divine 9 takeaways from Cowboys 2nd OTA sessions includes no Diggs or Parsons sightings https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/takeaways-cowboys-2nd-ota-sessions-of-2025/8397815700…

I know an academic who does the same thing. He schedules a 3-4 hour online research meeting from time to time, but he really uses the slot to run a #TTRPG session for us.
His field of study isn’t TTRPGs. https://masto…

50 years ago today, a #GratefulDead “blues for allah” writing session at bob weir’s home studio, stretched over 2 (questionably dated) tape pieces.
tape 1, tracks 1-8: https://arch…

Scope Meets Screen: Lessons Learned in Designing Composite Visualizations for Marksmanship Training Across Skill Levels
Emin Zerman, Jonas Carlsson, M{\aa}rten Sj\"ostr\"om
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00333

Scope Meets Screen: Lessons Learned in Designing Composite Visualizations for Marksmanship Training Across Skill Levels
Marksmanship practices are required in various professions, including police, military personnel, hunters, as well as sports shooters, such as Olympic shooting, biathlon, and modern pentathlon. The current form of training and coaching is mostly based on repetition, where the coach does not see through the eyes of the shooter, and analysis is limited to stance and accuracy post-session. In this study, we present a shooting visualization system and evaluate its perceived effectiveness for both n…

#bcfl25 Session Plan

If you're at #AGIT2025, I'd love to see you at our #MobilityDataScience workshop focused on #PublicTransport tomorrow morning 🌄
09:00-10:15 Session 1A: WS: Mobility Data Sc…

#DH2025 listening to Taylor Marie Faires on UChicago’s Library and Emerging Technologies 2 day bootcamp-style Summer Camp - they had 'share out' sessions including 'scary stories' which allowed people to share their fears about technology

REfugEEs From Beyond – Odd Spede Noisecore
#byncsa

If you're in or around Galway tomorrow, check this out!
From the game director of award-winning Monument Valley 3.
Join Game Director and Designer Jennifer Estaris in an interactive session developed as part of the Citizens Assemble Game Jam.
https://w…

Occasionally I feel like sharing a bit of background to tracks. (Though nobody asked for it and not sure who’d be interested!) A skeletal version of ‘Black Mamba’ started life in preparation for a session with the Kasai Allstars at Hot Chip’s studio, where we were doing a mix of things, including work for a (so far eternally unreleased) new Grace Jones album - but once there, we all did something new, and once home, I got carried away with the track and decided it should go on ‘Brutalist’ in…

Local Type Inference for Context-Free Session Types
Bernardo Almeida (LASIGE, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal), Andreia Mordido (LASIGE, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal), Vasco T. Vasconcelos (LASIGE, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20855

Local Type Inference for Context-Free Session Types
We address the problem of local type inference for a language based on System F with context-free session types. We present an algorithm that leverages the bidirectional type checking approach to propagate type information, enabling first class polymorphism while addressing the intricacies brought about by the sequential composition operator and type equivalence. The algorithm improves the language's usability by eliminating the need for type annotations at type application sites.

Modern applications require search capabilities that go beyond basic text matching. They must be fast, accurate, personalised and context-aware. At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Saurabh Singh will demonstrate how OpenSearch’s latest AI/ML enhancements and engine improvements enable organisations to build intelligent, scalable search experiences that meet these evolving needs.
Learn more:

From Search to Insight: Leveraging OpenSearch for Scalable, AI-Driven Search Experiences
Observability, log analytics, GenAI systems, and RAG pipelines must query massive volumes of semantic embeddings to retrieve relevant content instantly. Today’s search systems often fall short in handling high-dimensional vector data and similarity search. OpenSearch 3.0 brings significant architectural improvements to address these challenges. Integrating Apache Lucene 10 and JVM 21, the platform delivers 20% faster queries than its 2.x predecessor and 10× the throughput of 1.x versions. Ne…

Jetzt auf der @… :
Zurück in die Zukunft: Warum das #Fediverse das neue, soziale und demokratische Netz für Europa (und die Welt) werden sollte. Mit @…

Zurück in die Zukunft: Warum das Fediverse das neue, soziale und demokratische Netz für Europa (und die Welt) werden sollte | re:publica

In totally unrelated news I'd like to mention that I couldn't get the live session of OpenIndiana to run on my 2018 potato.
Given that this release is called Hipster, I call that a blessing in disguise.

Reports allege OK State Superintendent Ryan Walters displayed nude women on office TV. Board member, lawmakers react
https://www.news9.com/story/68841058d52d32552a8632c6/state-lawmakers-react-to-reports-ryan-walters-displayed-nude-women-on-office-tv-during-executive-session

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Mên An Tol:
🎵 Not Ideal (6 Music Session, 28th July 2025)
#MênAnTol
https://open.spotify.com/track/0v4nAgyFbCbkztikjnhtjR

Integrating LLM-Derived Multi-Semantic Intent into Graph Model for Session-based Recommendation
Shuo Zhang, Xiao Li, Jiayi Wu, Fan Yang, Xiang Li, Ming Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20147

Integrating LLM-Derived Multi-Semantic Intent into Graph Model for Session-based Recommendation
Session-based recommendation (SBR) is mainly based on anonymous user interaction sequences to recommend the items that the next user is most likely to click. Currently, the most popular and high-performing SBR methods primarily leverage graph neural networks (GNNs), which model session sequences as graph-structured data to effectively capture user intent. However, most GNNs-based SBR methods primarily focus on modeling the ID sequence information of session sequences, while neglecting the rich …

A great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. Join Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
Learn more:

From Culture to Open Source: Build Value-driven Communities
A great open-source community isn’t just about code—it’s about people. For us – Weaviators – we believe a strong company culture of kindness and collaboration is essential for building an inclusive and engaged open-source ecosystem. Join us to learn what you can do to ensure your culture extends beyond your organization and how your values translate into external impact. Based on real-life examples and tactics,, we will explore: - The connection between company culture and open-source…

Micah Parsons shows Cowboys commitment in big way at final minicamp session https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-shows-dallas-cowboys-commitment-big-way-final-minicamp-session

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Clinic:
🎵 The Second Foot (Radio 1 Session, 29 Aug 1999)
#Clinic
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hLAkiRyFStFHstyuKDesj

Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters -- by making it harder to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives.
In #Missouri, the 2025 legislative session was dominated by Republican lawmakers trying to reverse two major measures that voters had put on the ballot and approved just months before;
one made

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power to partisan legislatures.

Join Dennis Berger, Marco Petris, and Volker Carlguth to explore 'Intent-Based Clustering.' An approach to overcome some limitations of modern hybrid search systems. Discover how upfront LLM-supported in-depth query understanding can be applied in various steps, including retrieval, clustering, validation, and presentation. Learn about the process of moving from prototype to production for large-scale, high-volume e-commerce searches.

What you see is what you mean; intent based ecommerce search
In today's e-commerce landscape, hybrid search systems represent the market standard, yet they often struggle with highly inspirational queries, lack of precision in semantic recall, and presentation of diversity. Ambiguity in search terms can lead to disorganized results or overshadowed relevant products. This session will demonstrate how an upfront LLM-supported in depth query understanding can increase recall meaningfully without sacrificing precision. We show how LLM-driven query understand…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Clinic:
🎵 The Second Foot (Radio 1 Session, 29 Aug 1999)
#Clinic
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hLAkiRyFStFHstyuKDesj

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four month…

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalo…

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.
Learn more:

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Part Chimp:
🎵 Up With Notes (6 Music Session, 4 Jul 2025)
#PartChimp
https://partchimp.bandcamp.com/track/up-with-notes
https://open.spotify.com/track/1nYisnzc1D0w2GauLeHCTT

Dive into semantic reranking at Berlin Buzzwords 2025! Athanasios Papaoikonomou will explore how different models and reranking depths impact search performance, revealing important patterns and the real-world efficiency vs. effectiveness trade-off.
Learn more: https://

Exploring reranking depth in modern search pipelines
The use of semantic reranking on top of a ‘cheaper’ retrieval step becomes more and more common in modern search applications. It offers a different cost quality profile to semantic retrieval trading indexing time compute for retrieval time compute. The depth represents the number of documents that we select to retrieve and feed into the reranking model in order to optimise their ordering. Intuitively, there is a “natural” trade-off between the uplift we can achieve by operating on an i…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Blondshell:
🎵 23's A Baby (6 Music Session, 11th July 2025)
#Blondshell
https://blondshell.bandcamp.com/track/23s-a-baby
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KMRvlrvzfbqAyBL4Yd4DR

Hierarchical Intent-guided Optimization with Pluggable LLM-Driven Semantics for Session-based Recommendation
Jinpeng Chen, Jianxiang He, Huan Li, Senzhang Wang, Yuan Cao, Kaimin Wei, Zhenye Yang, Ye Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04623

Hierarchical Intent-guided Optimization with Pluggable LLM-Driven Semantics for Session-based Recommendation
Session-based Recommendation (SBR) aims to predict the next item a user will likely engage with, using their interaction sequence within an anonymous session. Existing SBR models often focus only on single-session information, ignoring inter-session relationships and valuable cross-session insights. Some methods try to include inter-session data but struggle with noise and irrelevant information, reducing performance. Additionally, most models rely on item ID co-occurrence and overlook rich sem…

Ever wondered how Kubernetes runs on a tractor? At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, join Wieneke Keller & Sebastian Lenartowicz from Aurea Imaging to explore their innovative AgTech journey! Discover how they built an edge device with Python microservices and K3s for precision farming, tackling unique rural challenges. 
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Precision farming powered by K3s and TensorRT
Aurea Imaging is an AgTech scaleup focusing on precision farming in orchards. By retrofitting our TreeScout sensor package to their tractors, farmers are able to collect data about their orchard down to the tree level as they perform other tasks. Using onboard stereo cameras, the tractor’s high-precision GPS, a machine-vision pipeline running in real time on the device, and cloud-based analytics, this data is turned into maps used by other agricultural machines that enable the grower to utili…

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Part Chimp:
🎵 One In The Eye (6 Music Session, 4 Jul 2025)
#PartChimp
https://partchimp.bandcamp.com/track/one-in-the-eye
https://open.spotify.com/track/4I4ChcihZsnHKgO78iRW5I

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Part Chimp:
🎵 Back From The Dead (6 Music Session, 4 Jul 2025)
#PartChimp
https://partchimp.bandcamp.com/track/back-from-the-dead
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UnjaeqQhbbcxl3eESA4pf

"We think of generating source code from a prompt as an AI-powered feature of modern IDEs, but the general problem has a rich history in research efforts and domain-specific programming systems." Join William Benton at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to hear him talk about the history of program synthesis, its relationship to the history of AI, and the lessons we can learn from it today.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lucy Rose:
🎵 Pale Blue Eyes (6 Music Session, 02 Jun 2025)
#LucyRose
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aK4bJInGOV0Skp8uYrWuE

Data in organisations is traditionally split between operational and analytical estates. At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Tom Scott and Roman Kolesnev shared their journey of combining Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg to create a solution that addresses both estates from one data source.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lucy Rose:
🎵 Pale Blue Eyes (6 Music Session, 02 Jun 2025)
#LucyRose
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aK4bJInGOV0Skp8uYrWuE

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Orbital:
🎵 Impact - BBC Session 03/08/1994
#Orbital

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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A Certain Ratio:
🎵 Do the Du (Casse) (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979)
#ACertainRatio
https://nozu.bandcamp.com/track/body2body-a-certain-ratio-do-the-du-zu-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yNLGfT3KzUukZl8Rn037a

Join Andrew Musselman and Trevor Grant as they present the latest developments in Mahout's new quantum compute layer, Qumat. They will provide an overview of the project, explain why Qumat was developed, and demonstrate its current capabilities. They will also present a demo of Qumat in action and conclude with calls to action for researchers and engineers who are interested in using and contributing to the project.
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Ego Ella May:
🎵 What's Happening Brother (6 Music Session, 22 May 2021)
#EgoEllaMay

At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, join Dhrubo Saha to discover how OpenSearch pipelines are integrating ML inference processors for powerful multi-modal search. Learn to search directly within images, audio, and text – locally on your own hardware!
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Orbital:
🎵 Are We Here - BBC Session 03/08/1994
#Orbital

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Big Long Sun:
🎵 between the air and the water (6 Music Session, 29 July 2025)
#BigLongSun
https://biglongsun.bandcamp.com/track/between-the-air-and-the-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oAcf6VmESK121lNJNo0ig

Join Radu Pop and Pietro Mele at Berlin Buzzwords as they discuss building an extensible hybrid search solution with Elasticsearch. They will cover functional modeling, cluster architecture, and practical insights on managing billions of vectors in real-world scenarios. Radu and Pietro will also address hybrid reranking challenges and the limitations of standard fusion techniques, explaining their innovative approach.
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Grace Petrie:
🎵 Farewell To Welfare BBC 6 Music Session 2011
#GracePetrie
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZtfmhFiNMecGDbWYmkHeH

Join Nikolay Sivko at this year's Berlin Buzzwords for his talk, in which he will delve into delay accounting — a frequently overlooked feature that provides valuable insights into CPU time shortages and application latency. Discover how to use these kernel metrics to improve performance analysis and system optimisation.
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In the digital age, misinformation spreads rapidly, making it increasingly difficult to ensure the integrity of information. AI presents new opportunities to support fact-checking and news classification. Join Giovanna Monti and Lucian Precup as they share insights from their work developing an AI-driven platform integrating search capabilities, an intelligent assistant and a RAG system.
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Discover ColPali at Berlin Buzzwords 2025 with Sonam Pankaj. This session covers what ColPali is, how its "late-interaction" works, and how you can deploy its quantised version on your laptop.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwords.de/sessio

At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, join Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya as she presents miniCOIL—a novel approach to creating a sparse neural retrieval model. This model aims to combine the advantages of dense and lexical retrieval methods while avoiding their drawbacks. Evgeniya will explain how to design and train a lightweight model that performs well on out-of-domain data and will demonstrate its capabilities.
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