The Search Juggler: helping you build amazing AI & search apps. Also hachyderm dot io slash @flaxsearch & @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social
Cambridge, UK
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PLEASE NOTE! I'm also now on hachyderm dot io as @Flaxsearch if you would like to join me on the er...wooden pole a sail is attached to, letter after N, short name for university professor or teacher? #blockthatElon
Here's the talk I gave last week on how to connect Vespa.ai to Quepid, the search workbench - including how to get an example news search application stood up, BM25 ranking and how to see which parts of each search result generated scores. maven.com/p/771bd9/offline-s…
Very happy to announce a partnership with Vespa.ai ! I've been getting to know the team there over the last year & learning more about this impressive technology.Great to add Vespa to the list of search technologies I'm able to advise clients about
Quick reminder that I'm giving a free class with Trey Grainger this Friday on how to get started with Vespa.ai and in particular how to use Quepid for offline testing and query debugging. I'll give a brief intro to Vespa and Quepid, show you how to ..[1/2]
..spin up an example news search, figure out how to authenticate connections between the two tools and how to return results and show how Vespa scored their relevance. Come along! maven.com/p/771bd9/offline-s… [2/2]
Join me and Trey Grainger for a Lightning Lesson about how to use Quepid with Vespa for offline search relevance testing - next Friday 30th maven.com/p/771bd9/offline-s…
I've successfully managed to hook @vespaengine up to Quepid, the offline relevance testing tool. This lets you try out search queries, rate the results manually for relevance, and adjust the query syntax to see how this affects things. thesearchjuggler.com/how-to-…
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Vector search, in many cases, might be *actively bad* for RAG. The reason query understanding is so powerful is because it trains users to use certain affordances in your data.
Looking forward to the ceremony tonight and to reconnecting with UK #opensource folks!
🎉 OpenUK Awards 2025 Ceremony has arrived, celebrating the very best in open technology. Tonight, we gather for the Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the House of Commons, hosted by Dame Chi Onwurah MP – a spotlight for all things open source. Andy Piper, @bboreham, Daniel Gale, @davidtwco, @Dermoscopea, @floxdevelopment, @GodfreyInyama, Jan Faracik, Joe Birr-Pixton, LVFS (fwupd.org), @lowRISC, @M_Hartnett, Manyfold (manyfold.app), Ministry of Justice UK Splink Team (@robinlinacre), @openactiveio, @coderoflagos, Dr. Ravinder Singh, Richard Purdie, Rustls, Sonia Cooper, @sourishsharma17, @universalviewer, and @UKPowerNetworks Who will take home the awards? 🏆 Stay tuned as we celebrate the visionaries of open source. 🏆🍾🥂 #opensource #openukawardshttps://openuk.uk/awards/ #openukawards #opensource
You can now watch the first talk from the London Search & AI Meetup on November 11th; "Judgement Day: Rethinking Search Evaluation with Language Models" given by Max Grogan & George Sykes of Tesco
youtu.be/6cQ0L87uvRA
Join our group at thesearchjuggler.com/meetup and sign up to host or give a talk at thesearchjuggler.com/helpmee… - we need your help to run our next event!
A great start to #LondonSearchWeek yesterday with the Search Product Manager Barcamp and London Information Retrieval Meetup - more here linkedin.com/posts/charliehu… - and more to come at londonsearchweek.com
And #LondonSearchWeek begins! On the train for our first event, a BarCamp for Search Product Managers, then the London Information Retrieval Meetup tonight londonsearchweek.com
Really looking forward to catching up with friends & contacts old & new next week - there's still space available for some of the events of #LondonSearchWeek. I'll be in town Mon, Wed and Thur if you'd like to meet up and chat about search & AI londonsearchweek.com
I love a #search conference - so I built a Search Conference Calendar! I'm updating it for 2026 so do let me know if you're running an event I should feature on thesearchjuggler.com/confere… - there's a 'Submit it here' link which makes it easier for me.
The registration link is now up! londonsearchweek.com/hackday… Come and learn and build with #Solr!
We've added a new event to #LondonSearchWeek - a #Solr Hackday! Come along and join committer Alessandro Benedetti to build some cool things with this powerful #opensource search engine. To be held on Fri 28th Nov, venue & registration details coming soon londonsearchweek.com
This time next week we'll be kicking off #LondonSearchWeek with a BarCamp for Search Product Managers - and there's many more events over the next few days! A Meetup, conference, tutorials, Agentic AI and a #Solr Hackday londonsearchweek.com
We've added a new event to #LondonSearchWeek - a #Solr Hackday! Come along and join committer Alessandro Benedetti to build some cool things with this powerful #opensource search engine. To be held on Fri 28th Nov, venue & registration details coming soon londonsearchweek.com
Can you 'fix' search by just moving to a new search platform? I don't think so... thesearchjuggler.com/why-rep…
We now have all our venues and sponsors confirmed for #LondonSearchWeek! Huge thanks to @superlinked for stepping in to host the first event, a Barcamp for Search Product Managers on Monday 24th November. Reserve your spot for any of the events at londonsearchweek.com