80: Cites are not endorsements (with Sean Rife)
We chat with Sean Rife, who the co-founder of scite.ai, a start-up that combines natural language processing with a network of experts to evaluate the veracity of scientific work.
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- What is scite.ai? \n
- The Winnower \n
- Why is there no good (and free) plagiarism detector? \n
- Grobid - A machine learning library for extracting, parsing and re-structuring PDFs \n
- Meta-analysis can prop up flawed bodies of literature \n
- The "Too meta" XKCD cartoon \n
- What\u2019s the end game for scite? \n
- The 80,000 hours game \n
- Spooner, a utility that allows authors of scientific publications to make their work available to the general public (probably) without violating publishing agreements \n
Other links
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- [Sean on twitter](www.twitter.com/seanrife) \n
- [Dan on twitter](www.twitter.com/dsquintana) \n
- [James on twitter](www.twitter.com/jamesheathers) \n
- [Everything Hertz on twitter](www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast) \n
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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)
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Episode citation and permanent link
\nQuintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, March 18) "Cites are not endorsements", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9EYG
Special Guest: Sean Rife.