Ben Brabyn

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Hetti Barkworth-Nanton CEO of #PloughshareInnovations explains the challenges of working at the interface between public and private sectors - lack of funding, gender bias #Anthropy25

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Returning were as tedious as go o'er

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Head of Network (partnerships/ecosystem) - The London Interdisciplinary School ABOUT LISThe challenges humanity is facing aren't the stuff of dystopia, science fiction, or textbooks. They're happening today – and they've never been more complex and interconnected.Yet our higher ...

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AI Opportunities Action Plan

"Frontier models in 2024 are trained with 10,000x more computing power than in 2019 ... If progress continues at the rate of the last 5 years, by 2029 we can expect AI to be a dominant factor in economic performance and national security." www.gov.uk/government/p...

I think the earliest signs of ASI are likely to show up in mischievous autocorrect influence.

Years ago, when my boss was called "Janine Middleton", I narrowly avoided sending an email autocorrected to refer to "Canine Simpleton"

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My second (2/2) prompt was: Very good, but more of a traditional detective look, focusing on Victorian London, and with more emphasis on the other people helping in their search

My first (1/2) prompt to DALL-E was: Create a landscape image of a detective searching for information or opportunity, helped by an irregular network of allies. Keep the style simple and visually attractive, suitable for a blog post.

In 2025, your best chance of unlocking hidden opportunities is to recruit an "irregular" network. 🔍

This lesson from Sherlock Holmes is as relevant to corporate leaders and entrepreneurs today as it was on the smoggy streets of London in 1888.

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For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

Happy New Year Tom!

I asked ChatGPT "Where is the boundary between the anterior cranial fossa and the right fontal sinus?" and then requested the answer on a picture or diagram.

The answer illustrates the danger zone of generative AI results that are plausible but very wrong.

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"We're launching a startup, and it's possible because of the contacts we have made through #Walkabout!" 🚀🚀🚀

I'm delighted to share this quote from a conversation I had this morning!

If you would like to join a #Walkabout in 2025, please let me know!

Ben Brabyn on LinkedIn: Paper Chains and Linkyness – A Festive Habit for the New Year Despite intense competition from tinsel, everyone knows that the paper chain ⛓ is the most subversive festive decoration. It symbolises behaviour that should…

The lesson of the humble paper chain

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I passed my genetic engineering exam with flying koalas.

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How Russia Invaded Wikipedia The Kremlin is weaponizing an alternative version of the website—and rewriting the facts of Putin’s war against Ukraine.

〝[…] groups of “sock-puppet” editor accounts, which have coordinated their activity to rewrite pages relating to Russian-Ukrainian relations while using false identifiers. These groups have actively undermined Western and Ukrainian information sources and instead endorsed Russian narratives […].〞

Many thanks - and my apologies for the very tardy response (and the transliteration of nobs for jobs)

Is it the Employment Transition Agreement (Trygghetsavtalet)?

@martinsandbu.bsky.social in your excellent "The Economics of Belonging", you mention that in Sweden, "employers organisations are held responsible for worker reallocation schemes to find new nobs for workers who are let go" - can you point me towards the legislation? Many thanks!