William Okech

I'm Not a Robot Prove your humanity once and for all

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Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt

Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

Oral exams to counter the rise of AI-assisted cheating

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Can you run a Premier League football club? Step into the boardroom, navigate profit and sustainability rules and guide your club to glory

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Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.

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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate and revise text with human-level performance. These models come with clear limitations, can produce inaccurate information, and reinforce existing biases.

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024.

Learn more:

#dataviz animation thread

Great use of #rstats and the rdbnomics package

Vibe coding: a new paradigm for biomedical software development - BioData Mining

What is Vibe Coding and how can it be used to advance biomedical research? @tatonetti.bsky.social & I explain in this editorial biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #bioinformatics #datascience #coding #vibecoding

Illustrated use of Fish (singular animal), Fish (multiple individuals of the same type of fish) and fishes (multiple kinds or species of fish).

🧪 PSA regarding fish and fishes.

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The towers of babble (are falling) Your internet comes in a sachet now

"In Sub-Saharan Africa, less than a third of mobile phones connect to the internet at all."

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Data Science and the Art of Persuasion Despite heavy investments to acquire talented data scientists and take advantage of the analytics boom, many companies have been disappointed in the results. The problem is that those scientists are t...

Data Science and the Art of Persuasion

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Great take on modern CS Education

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Love this! Spell out your name using NASA satellite images.
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AI, LLMs, and BS – Data Visualization with R Use R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data

On the responsible (and ethical) use of LLMs in academia datavizsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-...

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything : Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

Vibe coding, hallucinated package names, and malware 🤯

www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/04/...

YouTube video by Engage Talk Not a Bitter Divorced Woman | Felgona Oyuga

Felgona Oyuga on life, love, and everything in-between

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Yemaachi Biotechnology Launches The African Cancer Atlas, in Partnership with Roche Yemaachi Biotech, a pioneering genomics research company based in Ghana, announced today a partnership with Roche to launch The African Cancer Atlas (

The African Cancer Atlas (TACA)

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The Global AI Talent Tracker 2.0 - MacroPolo Since launching our talent tracker in 2020, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. Ostensible breakthroughs in large language models and machine learning methods, as well as stagge...

Global AI Talent Tracker: macropolo.org/interactive/...

Tsundoku: The Art of Buying Books and Never Reading Them Be honest, how many books on that shelf have you actually read cover to cover?

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Religious Leaders Experiment with A.I. in Sermons Modern religious leaders are experimenting with A.I. just as earlier generations examined radio, television and the internet.

Interesting times ahead 🤯

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/t...

🌍 Want to tackle real-world challenges with R and cutting-edge datasets?

Here are 7 incredible FREE data sources you can connect to in R—and how to get started. Let’s dive in! 🧵👇

Most College Science Professors Aren’t Trained to Teach Opinion | STEM faculty are hired predominantly for research expertise, not necessarily teaching skill. This can hurt students.

🤯🤯 undark.org/2024/12/19/o...

Want to dive into the world of data analysis? No prior programming experience? No problem!

The email course “R for Novices” is for you 👇🏾

Maximizing Time for Reading Why reading—and reading widely—is more important than ever, and how to go about creating habits and practices to allow yourself the space and time

Maximizing Time for Reading
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Why You Need a News Vacation We're not made for 24/7 feeds of catastrophe

Why You Need a News Vacation
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