Path dependence for hiring is real, and disorganized approaches to scaling result in chaos later on. Paper here: https://
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1737id_/http://web.merage.uci.edu/~cbeckman/Papers/Articles/No14FoundingtheFuture.pdf
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Path Dependence in Hiring and Organizational Scaling Strategy
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Founders Must Plan Organizational Structure and Hiring Early
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This paper shows founders need to care about both good hires AND organizational structure at the start. You can't easily "fill in" missing pieces of your org chart by adding roles later – you need to have planned growth at the start to maximize the chance of raising & exit.
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Citation bias in scholarship: how metrics distort quality perception
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A downside of Google Scholar is that it emphasizes citation counts. This paper shows that once we see citation counts, we think articles with fewer citations must be lower quality… it even affects readers who have cited that article in their own work! https://
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn
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Google Scholar pricing and Semantic Scholar as billionaire-funded alternative
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It would actually be more comforting if Google charged something reasonable to institutions for Scholar. Interestingly, competitor @SemanticScholar appears to be the result of a billionaire's endowment (the Allen Institute for AI), so maybe it represents a long-term alternative.
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6.4M AI-Generated Images Map Reveals Human Interests
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Worth exploring: a map of 6.4M million images generated by AI, grouped by what the AI considers to similar images.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 1 novembre 2022
Why you might want to explore it: it shows you what kinds of images humans are interested in; it teaches new prompts; & has surprising art.https://t.co/t1oUai8HJNWorth exploring: a map of 6.4M million images generated by AI, grouped by what the AI considers to similar images. Why you might want to explore it: it shows you what kinds of images humans are interested in; it teaches new prompts; & has surprising art.
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Bonus Incentives Double Escape Room Success Rates Study
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We know incentive pay boosts performance at jobs, but do bonuses also work for complex & non-routine tasks as well? Yes! Cool experiment finds that being given a small bonus for quickly solving an escape room doubles the chance people escape in 45 minutes https://
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Low engagement with research links highlights fact-checking importance
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666,000 people saw this thread. 535 clicked on one of the links I gave to a paper. The papers & research is all real, it isn’t a trick, I just am always amazed at how few people actually look at the research I post, especially one on the importance of fact-checking for yourself!
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Google Scholar’s critical role in modern scholarly research infrastructure
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I'd argue that Google Scholar plays a critical role in modern research. It is free, and it absolutely crushes every other scholarly search engine, including specialized ones Though it is a bit scary that it seems to be a tiny team & it exists only by the charity of Google…