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Exploring new documents and open-weight LLMs
Friday, June 19, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
After a few weeks off, we are back at it with some new historical materials! This week, I started working with historical ledgers. I specialized in colonial American newspapers, court records, and government documents during undergraduate, so this is …
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How do we measure the accuracy of search results?
Friday, May 29, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
This week, I started building our judgements list for Videlicet. Judgement lists record the pages that are relevant or irrelevant in a given search. They will be used in the near future to test the accuracy of our semantic search engine. In our move …
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Improving semantic search
Friday, May 22, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
Videlicet has changed a lot in the past few months! This week, we continued fine-tuning our searching, experimenting with Claude skills, and building Python notebooks. We have an evaluation process to provide feedback for computer-generated …
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Welcome To the Bonny Broom Blog
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
Welcome to the Bonny Broom Research blog! Here we’ll share updates about Videlicet™, research highlights, and news about our work making history searchable. My last semester as an undergraduate is officially over! Finals have been turned in, …