Can I please say that I miss @michaelgarfield on the complexity podcast by the @sfiscience? 🥹
The "scientific method" that's taught in (American) schools is goofy, and often not how discoveries happen
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
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Paper on modeling rhetorical citing by @HonglinB and me is finally out!
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Two thoughts on why citation *quality* is interesting to study for science & innovation broadly:
1. Citation quality not distributed randomly. Big empirical surprise is...
(1/3)
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Met a British startup founder today who'd studied engineering at Oxford. He said the majority of his fellow students had since gone into finance or consulting. In effect there is a brain drain *within* the UK, as engineers emigrate to fields where they don't build anything.
Self-citations per paper in Italy after the government linked promotion of scientists to citations
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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New YouTube video: 1hr general-audience introduction to Large Language Models
youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhN…
Based on a 30min talk I gave recently; It tries to be non-technical intro, covers mental models for LLM inference, training, finetuning, the emerging LLM OS and LLM Security.
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I am 34 y.o. Belarusian living in exile in Poland.
FIRST time in my life I will see a peaceful transition of power. To opposition. After democratic elections. With 73% turnout.
My message to you - value and protect your democracy. You can't even imagine what a miracle you have.
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Interesting argument. Mirrors Tocqueville's argument about the need to practice democracy at smaller scale in order to learn it. Over-centralization limits the opportunities of learning how to manage things.
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Job alert: The department of business humanities and law at Copenhagen Business School have just avertised a bunch of new positions (PhD, Post Doc, Assistant and Associate prof). Check them out
cbs.dk/jobs
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How can LLMs be used in social science research? science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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This is the Queen's Stepwell in Gujarat, India, built nearly 1,000 years ago.
It is beautiful, but it isn't unique — India is filled with hundreds of stepwells just like it.
Here is the story of the world's most extraordinary underground architecture...
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Today, I'm announcing Alexandria, an open-source initiative to embed the internet.
To start, we're releasing the embeddings for every research paper on the Arxiv. That's over 4m items, 600m tokens, and 3.07 billion vector dimensions.
We're not stopping here.
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We are looking for 1-2 exceptional postdoc candidates in management and qualitative methods! Deadline June 1st. We promise exciting projects, engaging discussions, and an environment that likes to push the envelope! Videos etc, from around Umeå in comments umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-…
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT
PUBLISHER: ELSEVIER
Editor in chief: Vanessa Ratten
researchgate.net/publication…
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New methods tend to be more disruptive.
New theories tend to be less disruptive.
New results do not have a robust effect on the nature of scientific influence.
New study of disruption in Science journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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New research by David Audretsch and colleagues suggests that the decline of academic freedom over the last decade has harmed innovation, as measured by the quantity and quality of new patents.
bit.ly/3BAsj07
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How do you define:
a public good that should be funded by donations or taxes
vs.
a product that should have a business model?
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Twitter seems less engaging. Like the whole algorithm has changed. Lots of conspiracy nutters, adverts and freaks that in real life you wouldn’t make eye contact with. Still, here’s an upside down cat.
































