Ex @elastic. Search guy. Currently working on https://teapawt.net/t.co/1wMVJKWZvd
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Mark Harwood retweeted
The best way is to kick off @elastic Elastic{ON} London is with the @elastic_london meetup the night before. There are great talks on significant terms by @elasticmark and building a #genai game with @Microsoft and #elasticsearch.
Register via the link 👇. See you there! 👋
Happy New Year! Join us for our next meetup on Wed Feb 25th ahead of Elastic{ON} London. We'll have talks from @elasticmark on significant terms and @Microsoft on building #genai games with @Microsoft and #elasticsearch.
Register: meetup.com/london-elastic-fa…
See you there!
Mark Harwood retweeted
Ice: weather, hockey, glaciers… or deportations?
How do you tell a search engine which one you mean?
youtu.be/xPIBKd7kRQw
Mark Harwood retweeted
One of my favourite events of the year, Search Solutions, returns to London on November 26th (tutorials on the 25th). Keep that week open, I hear rumours about some other search events.....can't let Berlin have all the fun! More details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/search-so…
Mark Harwood retweeted
Only a week to go until the next London Search & AI Meetup and we're filling up! Come along and hear @elasticmark and Kapil Kumar (Roko) talk about Emergent Facets & Improving Search Relevance Using CrossEncoders and LLMs meetup.com/search-and-ai-lon…
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Very happy to announce that the always entertaining @elasticmark will be our second speaker at the London Search & AI Meetup on July 1st: "Emergent Facets: Generating Specialized Filters from Search Results" - sign up today! meetup.com/search-and-ai-lon…
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We're back with another London Search & AI Meetup on 1st July at Just Eat! meetup.com/search-and-ai-lon…
Our first talk is from Kapil Kumar of Roku on "Improving Search Relevance Using CrossEncoders and LLMs"- 2nd talk to be announced soon. We'll also have time for Q&A and networking
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I wanted to share what I learned from Tantivy's "Search Benchmark, the Game", so I set up GitHub pages and wrote two blogs, on general observations on the benchmark jpountz.github.io/2025/05/12… and how it helped drive performance improvements in Lucene jpountz.github.io/2025/04/12…
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Example of the Boolean query’s detailed match profile - useful for human or AI refinement.
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First look at an AI agent for refining explainable searches.
Shows what was changed, why and if it’s working with each iteration.
Mark Harwood retweeted
Bit/binary vectors are coming to Elasticsearch! I wrote a bit (🤦) about them: elastic.co/search-labs/blog/…
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The second talk of the evening is "#HybridSearch With @ApacheSolr Reciprocal Rank Fusion" by @AlexBenedetti , featuring the latest updates since its original presentation at Berlin Buzzwords.
Join us for a free evening of learning and networking!
meetup.com/london-informatio…
Mark Harwood retweeted
The first talk of the upcoming meetup in London is
"Search UX SUX: how we fail to put search engine functionality in the hands of users and what to do about it" by @elasticmark
Join us in London or virtually on the evening of the 11th of July!
➡️meetup.com/london-informatio…
Mark Harwood retweeted
Warning: your Lucene-based queries can easily be doing something you would not expect. youtu.be/y9xwzsKrTiA
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New demo: taking patent search to the next level with graphical queries youtu.be/D5Tlhlq1mmM
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From Saussure's theory of language to dense vectors & nearest neighbors: part hands-on demonstration of semantic search in Elasticsearch, part explanation of text embeddings: nb.karmi.cz/semantic-search-….
#NLP #Elasticsearch #huggingface
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11%Not allowed to contribute
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When someone sets $44 billion on fire & burns this place to the ground all we can do is find the little moments of joy, like when fake but "verified" Elon Musk (@ChrisWarcraft) retweets fake but "verified" Keanu Reeves about the insanity of buying check marks.
Mark Harwood retweeted
Tonight's the night! Looking forward to our revival session this evening at the Elastic offices and hearing from @dadoonet and @elasticmark. See you there!
meetup.com/London-Elastic-Fa…
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I'll be in London on Tuesday. Anyone would like to organize a BBL session (lunch and learn) about #elasticsearch at noon that day? If you don't know what à BBL is, have a look at elastic.co/blog/free-lunch-f… 🤗 – at Cergy, France