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As the world accelerates at an unprecedented pace, for the Future Insight e.V. association 2024 has been an extraordinarily successful year. We achieved remarkable milestones, with Curious2024 – The Future Insight Conference standing out as a historic event that brought our motto, “United by science for a better tomorrow,” to life. With more than 3,800 registered attendees, ~500 academic institutions, ~280 companies, and ~130 speakers—including seven Nobel Laureates—this event was truly one of a kind. Moreover, the association has grown to encompass over 430 members, including several distinguished Nobel Laureates. This growth strengthens our collective ability to create a meaningful impact in 2025 and beyond. And yes, we are ready to generate further impact in 2025 with a new series of activities and events combining science with ethics and inspiration to a holistic concept that inspires people to build a better world together. As the year now comes to a close, the Future Insight e.V. association wishes you and your families a Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year 2025.   The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.   To brighter tomorrows Lucem Videmus - join now at: https://lnkd.in/eW7cCNgz   Ulrich Betz Chairman Future Insight e.V.

One more day until 600+ of the brightest young scientists and some 40 Nobel Laureates meet in Lindau. To sweeten the waiting time, here's another data insight. This time we look at migration/movement of Nobel Laureates. It is a complex topic, escpecially if you consider the time dimension and reasons for movement....too much complexity for one graph :-) But we will check where a laureate was born (ContinentOfBirth), where he/she lived when the prize was awarded (ContinentOfOrganisation), and where he/she died (ContinentOfDeath). We have to be careful with the data thsi time, a) because of the "none" categories, and b) because we don't know the individual reasons; but we can look at things on an aggregate level. Regarding the "Nones": The "none" category for CountryOfDeath in most cases simply means that a person is still alive. The same category in "CountryOfOrganisation" means that the data is not available (at least in this dataset). I suppose it would not be entirely wrong to assume similar relative distributions as for the existing categories. As before, there are no shocking revelations if your are familiar with Nobel Laureates or the global scientific community. Still, it's interesting: The North Americans are most immobile (in terms of continents). They are mostly born in the US, work in the US, and die in the US. (The concept of having several labs in various nice places in the world, or working in different countries for some time is not reflected in the data.) The reasons can be suspected to be at least two-fold: The quality of scientific institutions and career opportunities in the US was excellent for decades and maybe still is unrivaled; and there may be some culture-based inertia. For the other continents, the pattern is similar, to various degrees: A good portion of the (later to be) Nobel Laureates moves to the US, does their relevant research there, and then some return home, and some stay. (Those are the curves that first go up and then down again.) I suppose that can be generalized well to all scientists (in the natural sciences). There are some notable exceptions, and I will look into them in more detail in tomorrow's data insight. If you are interested in an interactive version of the graph with more details, click here: https://lnkd.in/eJ_X-PEx. The full data & code is available on Kaggle: https://lnkd.in/eXaZ2JD4)

Market Research Society (MRS) has just announced the programme for their 2024 &More Conference! Excitingly, Madano's Arian Oldroyd and Jarlath Mulhern will be presenting a session which discusses the various tools that we use to deliver actionable and impactful segmentation work. &More is MRS's conference for young researchers and we can't wait to be a part of it this October. We highly recommend the conference to any young researchers, but particularly for anyone interested in the exciting work we have going on at Madano. #marketresearch #datascience #AIincreative #insights  

Another great resources from the folks at CERi, edited by the amazing Shaghayegh:

🔭 With “Nobel week” already underway, it’s worth reflecting on an insightful and very recent paper by Novosad et al. (2024), which explores unequal opportunities in the sciences. The authors analyze data on the childhood environments of Nobel laureates and find that, on average, laureates grew up in households in the 87th–90th income percentiles, with nearly half coming from households above the 95th percentile (see chart)! (see chart)! 🔬 Why should we care about that? Because science is driving human progress and if there is a child who could make a foundational discovery, we have to ensure they don’t spend their entire life working in the fields. Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/dm9eUgDg

I finally graduated from the MSc Degree in Data Science at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca with a final mark of 110/110 cum laude. I am extremely proud of the effort I have put in the last two years, which made this achievement possible, pushing through the difficulties and challenges I have faced on this path. My final thesis, which I have carried out at the TALN Laboratory of Universitat Pompeu Fabra focuses on stacking together multiple jailbreaking techniques to test the robustness of LLMs in the state of the art to adversarial attacks. I have analyzed the ability of the target models to generate content that is aligned with the safety and ethical guidelines provided. Given the extent to which LLMs are used nowadays, their safety alignment is of utmost importance. More on this work can be found at this repository: https://lnkd.in/ddVPm5WX

This is not that the one who gets the award doesn't deserve it. What is equally important is that there are an uncounted number of deserving people who are at least in no way inferior to the awardee. At least, lecun yann should be incldued. A few facts about the awardees: ... only 32 laureates have no connection to the bigger academic Nobel family. ... An incredible 702 out of 736 researchers who have won science and economics prizes up to 2023 are part of the same academic family — connected by an academic link in common somewhere in their history. .... You can greatly improve your chances of winning a Nobel by working in the laboratory of a scientist who already has one or will in the future, or by working with someone whose mentors won. ... Just ten awardees hail from low- and lower-middle-income countries, and most of this small group of winners had moved to North America or Europe by the time they were given their prize. .... You should expect to wait for your award — for about two decades after you produce your Nobel-worthy work1. So, on average, you should make a start on these projects by your 40s. The number of years between work and prize is lengthening as time goes by, with laureates before 1960 waiting an average of 14 years, and those honoured in the 2010s having to wait an average of 29 years. But there’s a time limit: prizes cannot be awarded posthumously.

Did you see the 2024 Nobel Laureates? I think these are all game changers, these advances might explain why this time could be different. If you haven´t seen the video, I urge you to watch https://lnkd.in/gEn2XQmf 52 minutes well spent. And if you haven´t read it, I urge you to read Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World Illustrated Edition by Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani One key insigt in this book is the divide between "digital firms" and "traditional firms". Better steer AZTLAN Equity Management towards an AI-driven digital firm transformation. In my humble opinion, these 2 activities represent way better use of time than reading all those "Investment Outlook" Reports that try to predict what will happen in 2025...we all know no one knows. #investing #equities #international = = = 📌 We specialize in little-known non-U.S. small- and mid-cap equities. 📌 Sign up for AZTLAN’s Thoughts on the Run, insights, and analysis in the Featured Section.

I am proud and excited to be included, for the second year in a row, in the Top 2% list of the world's scientists, as identified in a study led by Stanford University Professor John P. A. Ioannidis (2024) titled "August 2024 Data-Update for 'Updated Science-Wide Author Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators'," published by Elsevier on 16 September 2024 (Version 7, DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.7). The database, derived from Scopus, is based on standardized citation metrics, including the h-index, the hm-index (adjusted for co-authorship), citations weighted by author position, and a composite indicator. The data provides separate insights into career-long impact as well as impact for the year 2023. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my colleagues, friends, and students who have supported me in achieving this milestone. This recognition is a testament to our collective efforts and belongs to all of us. You can find the the published study at the link below is: https://lnkd.in/d-vCuAjU

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