We chat with Sean Rife, who the co-founder of scite.ai (https://scite.ai), a start-up that combines natural language processing with a network of experts to evaluate the veracity of scientific work.
Here's what we cover and links for a few things we mention
* What is scite.ai?
* The Winnower (https://thewinnower.com)
* Why is there no good (and free) plagiarism detector?
* Grobid (https://grobid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Introduction/) - A machine learning library for extracting, parsing and re-structuring PDFs
* Meta-analysis can prop up flawed bodies of literature
* The "Too meta (https://xkcd.com/1447/)" XKCD cartoon
* What’s the end game for scite?
* The 80,000 hours game (https://80000hours.org/articles/can-you-guess/)
* Spooner (http://spooner.lyceum.ws), a utility that allows authors of scientific publications to make their work available to the general public (probably) without violating publishing agreements
Other links
- Sean on twitter (www.twitter.com/seanrife)
- Dan on twitter (www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
- James on twitter (www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
- Everything Hertz on twitter (www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast)
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Music credits: Lee Rosevere (freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)
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Episode citation and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, March 18) "Cites are not endorsements", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9EYG (https://osf.io/q9eyg/)
Special Guest: Sean Rife.