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Antoine Vernet

@antoinevernet.bsky.social

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Associate Professor in Management at UCL. Networks and Organizational Design. Mostly found reading. Very occasionally on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@antoinevernet

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 2h

Consulting is a form of time travel.

What other profession affords the opportunity to work with businesses that unironically discuss five-year plans?!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 10h

A themed chart for #TidyTuesday this week using data from the FAO on food security!

🌳 Voronoi treemap data wrangling with {WeightedTreemap}
🎨 Colours from {rcartocolor}
📊 Plotted with #ggplot2

#RStats #DataViz

Infographic showing a Voronoi treemap stylised to look like a dinner plate with images of cutlery beside it. Areas show the total protein supply for different countries, coloured by continent. Annotations highlight specific values i.e. China is largest, and Iceland largest per capita.

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think they'll succeed, the bloody thing won't wash off!
But yes, Bluey brings Brisbane to us in a way 😀

Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 11h

Rest assured there is plenty of correcting my accent going on 😬

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 12h

Also, no idea where the suggestion for a "proper" sentence comes from, but if I ever get kidnapped, this is now what I'll post to let everyone know 🤪

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😂

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The former

Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 12h

The youngest was surprised tonight that I knew who Napoleon was

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 15h

Do incumbents buy startups to scale innovation or to stifle it?

New research covering 60 countries finds that acquired startups were highly innovative before their acquisition, but their patenting drops sharply afterward, while acquirers' innovation doesn't rise.

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 13h

The UK doesn't have a "failed immigration system" and the fact that Labour copies the Conservatives and Reform by using this language is truly shameful!

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 17h

Trying out the {marquee} #rstats package for markdown-based formatting of ggplot elements and it's super neat marquee.r-lib.org

(code for plot here github.com/andrewheiss/...)

Plot showing the percent decrease in the number of polling places in a handful of US states after the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder SCOTUS ruling, with Arizona seeing a 22% decrease in voting locations. The title and subtitle use nicer typography and have keywords colored in reddish pink to match the plot

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 14h

This is so dumb it is depressing!

Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 14h

"Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today (14 October), as the government continues to replace Britain’s failed immigration system with one that is controlled, selective and fair." Who writes this crap?

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 14h

Just when you thought, maybe, just maybe... the UK government drops the dumbest shit!

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 18h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18h

An example of the government not having a project: only yesterday the government was trumpeting new measures to make it easier to build things. We'll work out who actually builds stuff later on.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 18h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 17h

Great to speak at the @energy-uk.org.uk conference just now, about the tenuous relationship between many media headlines & reality

Here's a taster

#eukconf25

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you for sharing this!

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 14h

"Dunbar's Number" is a zombie that lives forever in the science press it seems. Estimates of Dunbar's Number with 95% intervals, for a range of model specifications (from doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... ):