Okuhle Ngada 🇿🇦🇨🇦
@okuhlen.bsky.social
Creator of Things | Tech Lover | Coffee Lover | 🇿🇦🇨🇦
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Interesting paper I am reading which analyses the retractions and citations of retracted works among World's Top Scientists. One WTS is said to have more than half their total works as retracted! Love the framework in this paper! #research #researchIntegrity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ranking-based sanctions for retraction-afflicted elite researchers
The 2024 Stanford career-long list of the world’s top 2% scientists (WTSs) by citation impact, which for the first time includes retraction data, offers a unique opportunity to explore research int...
www.tandfonline.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Interesting paper I am reading which analyses the retractions and citations of retracted works among World's Top Scientists. One WTS is said to have more than half their total works as retracted! Love the framework in this paper! #research #researchIntegrity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m in love with AeroPress coffee… much more flavourful cups! Using the unofficial “Inverted Method” to brew with the AeroPress feels so gangster but produces amazing cups #coffee #aeropress #brew
June 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I’m in love with AeroPress coffee… much more flavourful cups! Using the unofficial “Inverted Method” to brew with the AeroPress feels so gangster but produces amazing cups #coffee #aeropress #brew
May 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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March 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Brilliant talk from @scott.hanselman.com on the realities on LLMs. The temperature demo is such a good way to explain the "magic" behind text generation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUi...
Keynote: AI without the BS, for humans - Scott Hanselman - NDC London 2025
YouTube video by NDC Conferences
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March 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Brilliant talk from @scott.hanselman.com on the realities on LLMs. The temperature demo is such a good way to explain the "magic" behind text generation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUi...
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openRxiv has arrived!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
March 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
openRxiv has arrived!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
Interesting updated report on the state of the U.S healthcare system relative to other wealthy countries. As always, the U.S has the worst performing healthcare system despite spending considerably more than other wealthy countries. #Healthcare #MirrorMirror www.commonwealthfund.org/publications...
Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System
Analyze the 2024 "Mirror, Mirror" report to understand global health system performance and insights for improving health care quality and access.
www.commonwealthfund.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Interesting updated report on the state of the U.S healthcare system relative to other wealthy countries. As always, the U.S has the worst performing healthcare system despite spending considerably more than other wealthy countries. #Healthcare #MirrorMirror www.commonwealthfund.org/publications...
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Predatory Journals
What is a Predatory Journal
www.predatoryjournals.org
February 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today I learnt that there is a term for having multiple constructors which boil down to some base constructor: The Telescoping Constructor Anti-Pattern. This anti-pattern really makes it hard to understand the flow of the code! www.captaindebug.com/2011/05/tele... #coding #csharp #programming
www.captaindebug.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Today I learnt that there is a term for having multiple constructors which boil down to some base constructor: The Telescoping Constructor Anti-Pattern. This anti-pattern really makes it hard to understand the flow of the code! www.captaindebug.com/2011/05/tele... #coding #csharp #programming
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Despite my exhaustion at the state of things, I still believe it's better to be labeled or hated now for speaking up than it is to live your life in a way where future generations will ask why you never did.
February 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Despite my exhaustion at the state of things, I still believe it's better to be labeled or hated now for speaking up than it is to live your life in a way where future generations will ask why you never did.
"Among 217,097 top-cited scientists in career-long impact and 223,152 in single recent year (2023) impact, 7,083 (3.3%) and 8,747 (4.0%), respectively, had at least 1 retraction" - THIS IS SHOCKING. The abstract of this paper has got me hooked!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #research
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #research
Linking citation and retraction data reveals the demographics of scientific retractions among highly cited authors
Retractions are becoming increasingly common but still account for a small minority of published papers. Using a database that links retractions to the top 2% most highly-cited scientists across scien...
journals.plos.org
February 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Among 217,097 top-cited scientists in career-long impact and 223,152 in single recent year (2023) impact, 7,083 (3.3%) and 8,747 (4.0%), respectively, had at least 1 retraction" - THIS IS SHOCKING. The abstract of this paper has got me hooked!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #research
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #research
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Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds
www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...
Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds
About 20,000 of the most cited researchers have 'implausibly high' publication and new co-author rates
www.chemistryworld.com
February 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds
www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...
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Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry
Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé,
Guillaume Cabanac
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry
Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé,
Guillaume Cabanac
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
theconversation.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry
Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé,
Guillaume Cabanac
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry
Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé,
Guillaume Cabanac
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
February 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model
Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model
Barely a week after DeepSeek released its R1 “reasoning” AI model — which sent markets into a tizzy — researchers at Hugging Face are trying to replicate the model from scratch in what they’re calling a pursuit of “open knowledge.” Hugging Face head of…
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January 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model
This is so amazing. A public list of potentially predatory journals / publications! Love this! Thanks to @predatoryjournals.org for maintaining and updating this list. This topic has fascinated me for the last few months! #research predatoryjournals.org/news/f/preda...
Predatory Journals List 2025
We keep the list updated as much as we can. New journals and publishers are added monthly. This is currently the largest and most up-to-date list available online and offline.
predatoryjournals.org
January 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is so amazing. A public list of potentially predatory journals / publications! Love this! Thanks to @predatoryjournals.org for maintaining and updating this list. This topic has fascinated me for the last few months! #research predatoryjournals.org/news/f/preda...
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Incredibly useful source of information who and what to avoid in academic research. Bookmark it now! 👇👇 🚫👹🚫 👇👇
😱 The largest and most up-to-date list of #Predatory journals and publishers. #2025 😉
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January 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Incredibly useful source of information who and what to avoid in academic research. Bookmark it now! 👇👇 🚫👹🚫 👇👇
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You fuckers are sleeping on Jupiter’s moons. I don’t want to ever hear one more person whine about Pluto if they can’t tell me a single fact about the in-every-way-superior Ganymede.
January 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
You fuckers are sleeping on Jupiter’s moons. I don’t want to ever hear one more person whine about Pluto if they can’t tell me a single fact about the in-every-way-superior Ganymede.
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I have been in Johannesburg for 3 days and I am proud to say I’ve eaten at Nando’s 4 times.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
January 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I have been in Johannesburg for 3 days and I am proud to say I’ve eaten at Nando’s 4 times.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
January 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM