Long time no see… here are some writings worth reading, published somewhere else,
- “The Rationality Debate” http://nytimes.com/2014/01/19/… via http://rogerfarmerblog.blogspot.ca/2014/… (see also http://nber.org/w18647 )
- “Why Quants Don’t Know Everything” http://wired.com/business/ … by @felixsalmon
- “Populist Backlash in France” http://europeanideas.eu/pages/politics/… by @artgoldhammer
- Some wild image captures from Google streetview, http://9-eyes.com/ via @statisticsblog e.g.
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- “The Cult of Overwork” http://newyorker.com/talk/financial/…
- “Is It Too Late To Reinvent Our Universities?” http://forbes.com/sites/mikemaddock/… HT @davidenkoff
- “Bloggers have same speech protections as journalists” http://boingboing.net/2014/01/19/…
- “Moderating internet forums : What’s smart, not what’s new” http://edwardtufte.com/bboard/q…
- “Why We Procrastinate” http://nautil.us/issue/…
- “American ancestry by county” via http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/ … (nice maps)

- “Public Libraries Show Why Sharing Culture Should Never Have Been Banned in the First Place” http://torrentfreak.com/public-…)
- “Japanese Economic Mythbusting” http://neojaponisme.com/2014/01/15/… by @Noahpinion
- “Even Ph.D.s Who Got “Full Funding” Have Huge Amounts of Debt” http://slate.com/blogs/browbeat/… HT @mattyglesias
- “Tweet goes viral” http://editerna.free.fr/145 #rstat #gephi by @3wen
- “For americans, global warning is a relatively distant threat” via http://environment.yale.edu/… (HT @FrenchRedFrog)

- “Can financial economics learn from Dancing with the Stars?” http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.de/ by @TCJUK
- +1 “No Comment” http://occamstypewriter.org/… (via @ClausWilke )
- “William Beveridge’s ‘Mock Trial of the Economists'” http://papers.ssrn.com/… via @tylercowen‘s http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution…
- “Pluralistic ignorance and alcohol use on campus: Some consequences of misperceiving the social norm” http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ …
- “Beautifully Mashed-Up Photos Show The Glory And Wreckage Of Detroit” http://fastcoexist.com/1681121/… see

- “What Big Data Means For Social Science” http://edge.org/panel/headcon…
- “10 Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data” https://authorea.com/users/…
- “Porn trends in the UK” http://theguardian.com/news/datablog/… (with data) via http://gianlubaio.blogspot.ca/2014/01/…
- “The cold hard facts of freezing to death” http://outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/ … via @Sci_Phile‘s http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/…
- “How http://reddit.com has changed over time” http://randalolson.com/2013/03/12/… see

- “Is Life a Ponzi Scheme?” http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/…
- “Academe quits me” http://dgmyers.blogspot.ca/2014/01/…
- “The likelihood of your dying during a given year doubles every eight years” http://npr.org/blogs/krulwich/… (Gompertz law)
- “Global warming’s biggest offenders” http://iopscience.iop.org/… via http://concordia.ca/content/shared/en/news/ … and @visionscarto see

- [free ebook] “On Chance and Unpredictability” http://stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real-World/d… “on the links between mathematical probability and the real world”
- via @ddiamond “Where there’s smoke, there’s cancer” http://advisory.com/daily-briefing… State-by-state smoking rate – cancer deaths

- Series “Hidden Meanings of Maps” http://geoawesomeness.com/… by @AFreant e.g. “The Projection Choice” http://geoawesomeness.com/… via @VisionsCarto
- “Undisclosed Flexibility In Data Collection And Analysis Allows Presenting Anything As Significant” http://socio.mta.hu/dynamic… and ” How To Have A High Success Rate In Treatment: Advice For Evaluators Of Alcoholism Programs” http://slatestarcodex.com/S… via “Two Dark Side Statistics Papers” http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/…
- “commercial at” http://typefoundry.blogspot.fr/2013/10/…
- “Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space” http://nber.org/w15199 e.g. Korea

Real satellite picture, taken above Korea (via https://google.ca/search?q=satellite+korea…) Note that the original (11Mo high resolution picture) is http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/… see
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- “If you flip a coin forever, are you guaranteed to eventually flip an equal number of heads and tails?” http://askamathematician.com/2014/… (see also http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/147 for random walks in dimension 1,2 and 3 – in French)
- “Bailout Could Backfire on Insurers” http://bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-10/ … by @asymmetricinfo
- “What blogging was” http://hyperorg.com/blogger/…
- “Canada Obesity Map, 2000-2011″ http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/… cc @q_ruy

- “Come Binge With Me” http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/…
- “Photo” http://xkcd.com/1314/ HT @Uneheuredepeine cf

- “Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips” http://sciencemag.org/content… via @goulu
- “A Fat World – With a Fat Secret?” http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/04 … see BMI index Map

- “How To Track Vehicles Using Speed Data Alone” http://technologyreview.com/view/523346/…
- “Global Income Inequality by the Numbers: in History and Now” http://elibrary.worldbank.org/6259…
- via @debmackenzie1 “Academic Feedback”

- “Women may be underrepresented in many fields of science but it looks as though they may be more productive than men” http://theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/…
- “Whack Data The Small Towns and Deserts of Canada” http://whackdata.tumblr.com/post/70826009125/ … see

- I can’t figure out if Amazon is serious, or not http://amazon.comB004MBNK5K … a more girly version http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004MBNK78… (cheaper, too) see
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- much better than http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/10181#maps “European word translator” http://ukdataexplorer.com/european-translator/… via @bodyspacesoc e.g.

avec aussi un peu de lecture en français,
- “La notion d’espérance de vie repose sur un postulat dénué de tout fondement” ? http://lemonde.fr/planete/article/2013/… wtf ? cf http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/1907 (découvert via http://imposteurs.org/article… un peu court, malheureusement)
- “Les élites, débordées par le numérique, sont de retour” http://slate.fr/story/82157/ … par @vincentglad
- “Penser la parole médiatique” http://atelier.rfi.fr/profiles/blogs/ … par @ziadmaalouf
- “L’art de stocker des mots de passe” http://linuxfr.org/users/elyotna/journaux…
- “En toute logique on devrait interdire les bibliothèques publiques” http://framablog.org/index.php/… HT @rosselin
- “Mais si ! L’université est en crise et la crise s’aggrave” http://liberation.fr/societe/2014/01/09/… par O. Beaud, A. Caillé et F. Vatin, HT @SH_lelabo
- “Deux enfants par femme, nouvelle norme mondiale ? ” http://alternatives-economiques.fr/deux-enfants… via @Monolecte see

- «Puisque ces mystères me dépassent, feignons d’en être l’organisateur» http://blog.educpros.fr/pierredubois… sur le statut des enseignants chercheurs
- ASAP? http://academie-francaise.fr/asap “le caractère d’urgence d’une requête pourrait être marqué avec plus d’urbanité” via @monsieurkaplan
- “Marketing et datamasse” http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/… par @nb58, avec du #bigdata dedans
- “Les infos les plus recherchées sur le Net” http://courrierinternational.com/article/2014/… passionnant !

- [RIP] Marc Yor (July 24, 1949 – January 10, 2014) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Yor via http://les-mathematiques.net/phorum…
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