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Great article in New York Times about the obesity paradox

Great article in New York Times about the obesity paradox

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Patients with normal weight die sooner than patients that are slightly overweight and data suggests that it is fitness that matter most. 

More Data Suggests Fitness Matters More Than Weight
A slow but steady accumulation of evidence is inspiring some experts to re-examine assumptions about the role of body fat in certain chronic diseases.


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Friend (+Michele Mattioni) is working on bringing down the Carbon Footprint of people…

Friend (+Michele Mattioni) is working on bringing down the Carbon Footprint of people…

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Friend (+Michele Mattioni) is working on bringing down the Carbon Footprint of people in Cambridgeshire by promoting eating and using locally (most often on small scale) sourced food. 

Have a look at the site, read his blog, join the discussion and join the "fun" of going green 🙂 

#cambridge   #localfood   #carbonfootprint  

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If you are a local food lover, have a look at this :
http://blog.sustainablesouk.com/post/31789935597/eat-and-buy-locally-at-the-cambridge-carbon-footprint

Eat and buy locally at the Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Eat and Buy Local Meeting We are going to be at the Eat and Buy local meeting organised by the Cambridge Carbon Footprint this incoming Friday (21 September 2012), where we will also present the…


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As a real hero he went! 

As a real hero he went! 

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As a real hero he went! 

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Members of the US Navy ceremonial guard hold an American flag over the cremains of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong during a burial at sea service aboard the USS Philippine Sea (CG 58), Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, in the Atlantic Ocean. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, Aug. 25. He was 82. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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Doesn't understand why I'm not allowed to pre-cache the +Google Maps for…

Doesn't understand why I'm not allowed to pre-cache the +Google Maps for…

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Doesn't understand why I'm not allowed to pre-cache the +Google Maps for the Barcelona area. As there is no difference in fetching it on the fly over 3g then pre-fetching it over a fist wifi I think this is an absolute silly restriction and doesn't help usability nor protects whatever Google is trying to protect. The only clear winner in this case are the telecom companies that can charge me ridiculious amounts for roaming…. #rant  

Anyway, not they almost force me to move to Open Street Maps. 

#Google   #GoogleMaps   #usability   #offlinemaps  

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Want to understand what this ENCODE thing is all about? Watch this amazing animated…

Want to understand what this ENCODE thing is all about? Watch this amazing animated…

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Want to understand what this ENCODE thing is all about? Watch this amazing animated movie very elegantly explaining the basics of what makes this project so exciting and what the implications are on a level that even non scientist understand! Brilliantly done +Nature Publishing Group! 

Genomes Certainly Are Tricky!

Thanks +Benedetta Frida Baldi for this great find!  

#ENCODE   #science   #genomics   #genetics   #epigenetics  

The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we’ve been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson, Crick and Franklin described the structur…

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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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