William Okech
willyokech.bsky.social
William Okech
@willyokech.bsky.social
#rstats #ai #datascience #biotech #bioai

www.williamokech.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
debliu.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Couldn't get past level 17: neal.fun/not-a-robot/
I'm Not a Robot
Prove your humanity once and for all
neal.fun
September 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Reposted by William Okech
Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
September 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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.
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by William Okech
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
August 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Reposted by William Okech
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.
scim.ag
August 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#dataviz animation thread
What is #dataviz animation good for? An updated thread with examples.
July 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Great use of #rstats and the rdbnomics package
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...
July 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by William Okech
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
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by William Okech
🧪 PSA regarding fish and fishes.

open.substack.com/pub/fishhist...
June 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"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
May 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Great take on modern CS Education

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
The case for teaching coders to speak French
www.theatlantic.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by William Okech
Love this! Spell out your name using NASA satellite images.
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
April 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Vibe coding, hallucinated package names, and malware 🤯

www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/04/...
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Felgona Oyuga on life, love, and everything in-between

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-yy...
Not a Bitter Divorced Woman | Felgona Oyuga
YouTube video by Engage Talk
www.youtube.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by William Okech
🌍 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! 🧵👇
December 31, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Want to dive into the world of data analysis? No prior programming experience? No problem!

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🎄 Day 22 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄

Are you interested in learning R and don't know where to begin?
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#rstats

https://heidiseibold.kit.com/d949a4d18c
R for novices
heidiseibold.kit.com
December 22, 2024 at 8:51 PM