William Okech
@willyokech.bsky.social
#rstats #python #ai #datascience #biotech #bioai Website: www.williamokech.com Substack: https://afrobiotech.substack.com/
I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...
You need to make AI guidelines for your lab
Here's why you should, and how to start
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Important point about AI and math in this excellent @matteowong.bsky.social interview with Terrance Tao www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"I have no idea how to build an empathic AI. I am quite confident though that as long as AI doesn’t feel empathy it won’t be truly aligned, no matter how sophisticated the RLHF training is that it’s subjected to. Interesting times ahead." blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/sociopathi...
Sociopathic AI agents
AI alignment will likely require creating AIs with genuine empathy
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
Anthropic Research: "We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery." www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
anthropic.com
Please Switch to Python. Or R. Or Anything. Just Not Stata, SAS, SPSS, or MATLAB. presentofcoding.substack.com/p/please-swi...
Please Switch to Python
Or R. Or Anything. Just Not Stata, SAS, SPSS, or MATLAB.
presentofcoding.substack.com
"About a third of players in the tournament (AfCon 2025) were born to African immigrant families outside Africa. That means the starkest divides on display aren’t between different African countries, but between African-raised players and European ones." www.ft.com/content/9d47...
Afcon and the power of a footballing diaspora
A compelling tournament has shown the importance of players — and fans — raised outside Africa
ft.com
AfroBiotech Roundup: Stay up to date on the latest biotech research focused on Africa and its diaspora. afrobiotech.substack.com
AfroBiotech Roundup | William Okech | Substack
Stay up to date on the latest biotech research focused on Africa and its diaspora. Click to read AfroBiotech Roundup, by William Okech, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.
afrobiotech.substack.com
How the People Closest to Us Quietly Shape Who We Become debliu.substack.com/p/in-sync-th...
In Sync: The Hidden Rhythms That Shape Us
How the People Closest to Us Quietly Shape Who We Become
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Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
Oral exams to counter the rise of AI-assisted cheating www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
nytimes.com
We've built a football game and it's free to play! Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game. 👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸
Can you run a Premier League football club?
Step into the boardroom, navigate profit and sustainability rules and guide your club to glory
ft.com
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:
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.
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Great use of #rstats and the rdbnomics package
Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · last yr.What's up with the US international investment position? Understanding the balance of payments is essential, but difficult. Playing with the data yourself helps a lot. My slides for this year's finance summer school try to make that easy, #rstats code included: benjaminbraun.org/teaching/fin...
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
Vibe coding: a new paradigm for biomedical software development - BioData Mining
biodatamining.biomedcentral.com
"In Sub-Saharan Africa, less than a third of mobile phones connect to the internet at all." techsafari.beehiiv.com/p/the-towers...
The towers of babble (are falling)
Your internet comes in a sachet now
techsafari.beehiiv.com
Data Science and the Art of Persuasion hbr.org/2019/01/data...
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...
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