Author: Sander Timmer

PhD student in computational genetics at Cambridge University and EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
No matter what you think of piracy, or how this has to be dealt with, I truly think it's a shame that the UK will extradite Richard O'Dwyer, a British citizen, to the US for alleged crimes committed in the UK that, so-far, have not been an issue in the UK.

No matter what you think of piracy, or how this has to be dealt with, I truly think it's a shame that the UK will extradite Richard O'Dwyer, a British citizen, to the US for alleged crimes committed in the UK that, so-far, have not been an issue in the UK.

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Does this mean that any British citizen has to be afraid to not break any american law that might upset any major american industry?

Join +Jimmy Wales (founder +Wikipedia) in his petition to stop this silly decision.

http://goo.gl/J6u9I

.@ukhomeoffice: Stop the extradition of Richard O’Dwyer to the USA #SaveRichard
Richard O’Dwyer is a 24 year old British student at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. He is facing extradition to the USA and up to ten years in…

No matter what you think of piracy, or how this has to be dealt with, I truly think…

No matter what you think of piracy, or how this has to be dealt with, I truly think…

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No matter what you think of piracy, or how this has to be dealt with, I truly think it's a shame that the UK will extradite Richard O'Dwyer, a British citizen, to the US for alleged crimes committed in the UK that, so-far, have not been an issue in the UK.  

Does this mean that any British citizen has to be afraid to not break any american law that might upset any major american industry?

Join +Jimmy Wales (founder +Wikipedia) in his petition to stop this silly decision.

http://goo.gl/J6u9I 

.@ukhomeoffice: Stop the extradition of Richard O’Dwyer to the USA #SaveRichard
Richard O’Dwyer is a 24 year old British student at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. He is facing extradition to the USA and up to ten years in…

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One of the most coolest animal pictures I've ever seen was in the +American Museum…

One of the most coolest animal pictures I've ever seen was in the +American Museum…

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One of the most coolest animal pictures I've ever seen was in the +American Museum of Natural History by John Sparks about the Madagascar cichlid using different dyes. Proper art this is if you ask me! 

Madagascar cichlid (Paretroplus polyactis)
Associate Curator in the Museum’s Division of Vertebrate Zoology John Sparks, an ichthyologist, highlights details of cichlids and other small fish using biological dyes. © AMNHJ. Sparks

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So if you ban scientist from doing the, according to them, most accurate way of predictions by introducing a ban on exponential models this helps society in what way?! Since when are law makers capable to determine what the best models for scientist should be? Research from the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows that sea levels are rising much faster between North Carolina and Massachusetts than anywhere else in the world

So if you ban scientist from doing the, according to them, most accurate way of predictions by introducing a ban on exponential models this helps society in what way?! Since when are law makers capable to determine what the best models for scientist should be? Research from the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows that sea levels are rising much faster between North Carolina and Massachusetts than anywhere else in the world

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Research from the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows that sea levels are rising much faster between North Carolina and Massachusetts than anywhere else in the world. The news comes less than two weeks after North Carolina's Senate passed a bill banning state agencies from reporting predictions of increasing rates of sea-level rise.

US northeast coast is hotspot for rising sea levels
Report comes after North Carolina senate proposes bill to ban predictions of increase in rates of sea-level rise.

So if you ban scientist from doing the, according to them, most accurate way of predictions…

So if you ban scientist from doing the, according to them, most accurate way of predictions…

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So if you ban scientist from doing the, according to them, most accurate way of predictions by introducing a ban on exponential models this helps society in what way?! Since when are law makers capable to determine what the best models for scientist should be? 

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Research from the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows that sea levels are rising much faster between North Carolina and Massachusetts than anywhere else in the world. The news comes less than two weeks after North Carolina's Senate passed a bill banning state agencies from reporting predictions of increasing rates of sea-level rise.

US northeast coast is hotspot for rising sea levels
Report comes after North Carolina senate proposes bill to ban predictions of increase in rates of sea-level rise.

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About me

I am a Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft in the World-Wide Data Insights CTO office focusing on cloud solutions for the Internet-of-Things, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. I obtained my PhD at the University of Cambridge specialising in Big Data Biology while being based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

In my previous "academic life", I was working in Ewan Birney's research group. My main subject was understanding non-coding variation using genome-wide molecular assays, like FAIRE and CTCF, onto Human cell line populations. Another research interest was identification of whole-body phenotypes in Human MRI scans using Machine Learning techniques.

Furthermore, I'm the co-founder of Rijschoolvergelijker. The largest driving school comparison website in the Netherlands with European ambitions.

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