Concerning diversity and the inclusion of minorities, as you said there is still a long way to go. In fact, there will always be a long way to go, as we need to stay careful! If is very easy not to pay attention and go back into the past situation.
This made things clear for me, now I'm getting the big picture of the project. I am more excited to see how it'll progress. I was reminded by that article I've read on the CERN website on how they try to improve their ways of searching for new physics and that includes the algorithms used, I hope I got it right? :)
The idea of the whole project is to propose a new algorithm to search for new physics, somehow, and to have an idea of its expectation. The latter is important if we want to convince experimentalists to embark.
Finally, thanks a lot for your very nice and encouraging message. Last week was quite emotionally intense to me, and everything got delayed. However, the next episode should appear next week :)