Antoine Vernet
@antoinevernet.com
Associate Professor in Management at UCL.
Networks and Organizational Design.
Mostly found reading.
Very occasionally on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@antoinevernet
Networks and Organizational Design.
Mostly found reading.
Very occasionally on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@antoinevernet
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Writing the models was never the hard part tho. Knowing what models to write and why was the hard part.
That being said, Claude/Gemini is remarkably good at doing that too.
That being said, Claude/Gemini is remarkably good at doing that too.
This.
I am pretty highly educated (PhD, Stanford postdoc, complex fields).
Claude replicated my dissertation in maybe twenty minutes.
We are _all_ going to have to change in pretty uncomfortable ways.
I am pretty highly educated (PhD, Stanford postdoc, complex fields).
Claude replicated my dissertation in maybe twenty minutes.
We are _all_ going to have to change in pretty uncomfortable ways.
For my part, seeing AI catch up to my abilities in several domains has been painful. I feel a sense of loss. And I’m in a position where I have (a tiny bit of) leverage and control over the process. I can only imagine how painful it would be if I felt like it were completely out of my hands
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Writing the models was never the hard part tho. Knowing what models to write and why was the hard part.
That being said, Claude/Gemini is remarkably good at doing that too.
That being said, Claude/Gemini is remarkably good at doing that too.
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Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.
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Heyyy, are you a data human who has always been a little intimidated by #AdventofCode? Come to the #DataScienceLab on Dec 2nd where @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social will give us a super friendly hands-on intro. Very casual, lurk friendly. Register for the event series @ pos.it/dsh
#databs #rstats #pydata
#databs #rstats #pydata
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Heyyy, are you a data human who has always been a little intimidated by #AdventofCode? Come to the #DataScienceLab on Dec 2nd where @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social will give us a super friendly hands-on intro. Very casual, lurk friendly. Register for the event series @ pos.it/dsh
#databs #rstats #pydata
#databs #rstats #pydata
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don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
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I've read @jennybryan.bsky.social happy git with R book a dozen times.
the challenge is you need some real life pain and heart ache with git before you can fully appreciate the words of wisdom in her book
anyways, for no particular reason - see the below link
happygitwithr.com/repeated-amend
the challenge is you need some real life pain and heart ache with git before you can fully appreciate the words of wisdom in her book
anyways, for no particular reason - see the below link
happygitwithr.com/repeated-amend
Chapter 27 The Repeated Amend | Happy Git and GitHub for the useR
One of the principal joys of version control is the freedom to experiment without fear. If you make a mess of things, you can always go back to a happier version of your project. We describe...
happygitwithr.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I've read @jennybryan.bsky.social happy git with R book a dozen times.
the challenge is you need some real life pain and heart ache with git before you can fully appreciate the words of wisdom in her book
anyways, for no particular reason - see the below link
happygitwithr.com/repeated-amend
the challenge is you need some real life pain and heart ache with git before you can fully appreciate the words of wisdom in her book
anyways, for no particular reason - see the below link
happygitwithr.com/repeated-amend
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Truer words were never spoken
I've read @jennybryan.bsky.social happy git with R book a dozen times.
the challenge is you need some real life pain and heart ache with git before you can fully appreciate the words of wisdom in her book
anyways, for no particular reason - see the below link
happygitwithr.com/repeated-amend
the challenge is you need some real life pain and heart ache with git before you can fully appreciate the words of wisdom in her book
anyways, for no particular reason - see the below link
happygitwithr.com/repeated-amend
Chapter 27 The Repeated Amend | Happy Git and GitHub for the useR
One of the principal joys of version control is the freedom to experiment without fear. If you make a mess of things, you can always go back to a happier version of your project. We describe...
happygitwithr.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Truer words were never spoken
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"Come join us!!!" —member of academic search committee that will receive 200 applications for one role and may in fact hire zero people for it
October 3, 2024 at 6:02 PM
"Come join us!!!" —member of academic search committee that will receive 200 applications for one role and may in fact hire zero people for it
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November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This 👇
To me this is a depressing theme in modern academia.
There is so much work being produced, and so many competing demands on our time, that people rarely seem able to just closely read work and frankly say "yes, I believe this" or "no, I don't."
If we aren't doing this, what _are_ we doing?!
There is so much work being produced, and so many competing demands on our time, that people rarely seem able to just closely read work and frankly say "yes, I believe this" or "no, I don't."
If we aren't doing this, what _are_ we doing?!
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This 👇
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I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply.
1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply.
1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
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For anyone interested, I've created a repository that includes a full (or, as full as possible given some constraints) accounting of the process that led to yesterday's published replication.
It also includes a brief response to the authors' response that they released today.
It also includes a brief response to the authors' response that they released today.
GitHub - ddekadt/instrumentally_inclusive_replication_public
Contribute to ddekadt/instrumentally_inclusive_replication_public development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
For anyone interested, I've created a repository that includes a full (or, as full as possible given some constraints) accounting of the process that led to yesterday's published replication.
It also includes a brief response to the authors' response that they released today.
It also includes a brief response to the authors' response that they released today.
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I have now read the response by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega again with a clearer eye.
Multiple claims in this response are untrue or seek to obscure the truth.
My interest has always been the accuracy of the scientific record, so I feel compelled to note some of these claims here.
Multiple claims in this response are untrue or seek to obscure the truth.
My interest has always been the accuracy of the scientific record, so I feel compelled to note some of these claims here.
A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published.
Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.
osf.io/rn6h3/files/...
Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.
osf.io/rn6h3/files/...
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I have now read the response by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega again with a clearer eye.
Multiple claims in this response are untrue or seek to obscure the truth.
My interest has always been the accuracy of the scientific record, so I feel compelled to note some of these claims here.
Multiple claims in this response are untrue or seek to obscure the truth.
My interest has always been the accuracy of the scientific record, so I feel compelled to note some of these claims here.
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Encourage everyone interested in this exchange to read the authors' response and thread.
I'll just offer two notes:
1. If you run many correlated tests, you unsurprisingly end up with many correlated answers.
2. There isn't a debate on inference - LPM with a binary DV has heteroskedasticity.
I'll just offer two notes:
1. If you run many correlated tests, you unsurprisingly end up with many correlated answers.
2. There isn't a debate on inference - LPM with a binary DV has heteroskedasticity.
A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published.
Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.
osf.io/rn6h3/files/...
Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.
osf.io/rn6h3/files/...
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Encourage everyone interested in this exchange to read the authors' response and thread.
I'll just offer two notes:
1. If you run many correlated tests, you unsurprisingly end up with many correlated answers.
2. There isn't a debate on inference - LPM with a binary DV has heteroskedasticity.
I'll just offer two notes:
1. If you run many correlated tests, you unsurprisingly end up with many correlated answers.
2. There isn't a debate on inference - LPM with a binary DV has heteroskedasticity.
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Now accepting nominations (especially self-nominations) for the year-end Family Inequality book giving guide!
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Now accepting nominations (especially self-nominations) for the year-end Family Inequality book giving guide!
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For anyone interested in the visualisation workshop materials I mention in this thread, you can find them here:
github.com/ddekadt/MY58...
github.com/ddekadt/MY58...
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
For anyone interested in the visualisation workshop materials I mention in this thread, you can find them here:
github.com/ddekadt/MY58...
github.com/ddekadt/MY58...
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
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Finally got around to switching my in-browser #rstats R Primers website to use the newer better-supported #QuartoPub Live extension, which will now let me eventually add nicer inline feedback someday
- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Finally got around to switching my in-browser #rstats R Primers website to use the newer better-supported #QuartoPub Live extension, which will now let me eventually add nicer inline feedback someday
- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
It must have been a fair amount of work finding a carriage with so much graffiti...
Tucker Carlson is a rightwing conspiracy theorist and Putin apologist who was sacked by FOX.... yes FOX
BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling.
Whose side are you on Mr Gove?
BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling.
Whose side are you on Mr Gove?
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It must have been a fair amount of work finding a carriage with so much graffiti...
I am sure one could find at least two more 20 year-olds who have similar worries
Josh Hall, 20, is 'worried' about how the cash ISA allowance cut announced in Wednesday’s Budget will affect his long-term savings plans
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I am sure one could find at least two more 20 year-olds who have similar worries
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A journalist persuading an 88-year old to do this is pretty questionable ethics imo.
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A journalist persuading an 88-year old to do this is pretty questionable ethics imo.
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Her *6* bedroomed house in North Kensington. 6!
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Her *6* bedroomed house in North Kensington. 6!
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🔦 added a 'highlight_mode' to hexsession.
Dim all images except the one hovered over.
Thanks to @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social for the idea!
hexsession.liomys.mx
#rstats
Dim all images except the one hovered over.
Thanks to @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social for the idea!
hexsession.liomys.mx
#rstats
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🔦 added a 'highlight_mode' to hexsession.
Dim all images except the one hovered over.
Thanks to @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social for the idea!
hexsession.liomys.mx
#rstats
Dim all images except the one hovered over.
Thanks to @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social for the idea!
hexsession.liomys.mx
#rstats
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#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
John Fox: Books and Software
www.john-fox.ca
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca