Ricardo Vidal

Biological Engineer, DNA Network co-founder, Science 2.0 enthusiast, Community Liaison @ Mendeley.com
RT @mathewburns: We Have Concerns (w/ @jeffcannata and @acarboni) has moved up my list of podcasts into must-listen territory.
RT @scifri: Today in 1942, Hedy Lamarr patented frequency-hopping, the basis for modern WiFi & Bluetooth. http://sciencefriday.com/segment... https://twitter.com/scifri...
Humans Need Not Apply: https://www.youtube.com/watch... via @YouTube // Plenty of food for thought here...
Aaaand @rstudio crashed again… :-(
Simple chi-square finds nothing (i.e. no relationship). Correspondence analysis seems to see something… Now what? :)
RT @selenavidya: Holy shit. #RIP. Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Actor, Dead at 63 http://www.thewrap.com/robin-w... via @TheWrap
Taking a closer look at the Global Alliance Genomics API to see how we may be able to use this… http://ga4gh.org/#/api
RT @DavidKenner: Everything about this picture is amazing. https://twitter.com/DavidKe...
Finally. Spotify in Canada. Boom.
House music meets 50 cent's "21 Questions". Result? Not that bad. https://t.co/6EZqKWm9Ba
How did I not realize until today that Moderat = Modeselektor + Apparat. Anyhow… Bad Kingdom on repeat today.
RT @emmkaff: Scientists: Don't freak out about Ebola. Everyone: *Panic!* Scientists: Freak out about climate change. Everyone: LOL! Pass me some coal.
RT @PHAC_GC: dCPHO: Based on current evidence, #Ebola is NOT transmitted person to person via airborne route.
RT @drtkeane: Nice new shiny website for the Global alliance for genomics and health - Data working group http://ga4gh.org/
“Known for [being] an ultra marathon winner at the age of 61” Distance of said race: 875 km (!!!) https://t.co/BxGPJY6twc
The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... // This is astounding!
YouTube Doesn't Know Your Password: https://www.youtube.com/watch... // Nice simple explanation about password hashing. :)
"4 reasons why science should go social" by @alicebonasio on @LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/today...
RT @victorhenning: Mendeley interview w/@NASA's Adriana Ocampo: As she got off the plane in LA her 1st question was "Donde esta NASA?" http://blog.mendeley.com/women-i...
Charting culture http://www.youtube.com/watch... via @YouTube // Amazing visualization! :)
RT @michael_nielsen: Chapter 3 of my book "Neural Networks and Deep Learning" is now available: http://neuralnetworksanddeeple...
Looks like you can send little doodles via Google Chat. Hover mouse over “camera” and then click on “pencil”. :) https://twitter.com/rvidal...
RT @aral: Watch Sen. Whitehouse, a badass, totally own Sen. Inhofe, a climate change denier, on climate change http://boingboing.net/2014...
Reading about singular value decomposition before sleep. #BecauseThatsHowIRoll
I like how @kaggle locks you out when it detects suspicious activity and only lets you back in if you can correctly answer a data problem.
This little fellow is now 7 months old. Smiles and more smiles. :) https://twitter.com/rvidal...
RT @mrgunn: Mendeley is looking for a technical writer with experience in APIs. Contact @mendeleyAPI
RT @MendeleyTalks: If you want to understand #Bitcoin start with the Yap Island "Game of Stones" http://blog.mendeley.com/talks-a... @dgwbirch https://twitter.com/Mendele...