A short list of writings worth reading, discovered this month
- “Ubérisation, turc mécanique, économie à la demande : où va le capitalisme de plateforme ?” https://theconversation.com/uberisation-turc-mecanique-economie-a-la-demande-ou-va-le-capitalisme-de-plateforme-64150
- “Bayesian inference completely solves the multiple comparisons problem” http://andrewgelman.com/2016/08/22/bayesian-inference-completely-solves-the-multiple-comparisons-problem/
- “The Global Temperature Record and the Early Onset of Industrial Age Warming” http://stochastictrend.blogspot.com/2016/08/corrections-to-global-temperature-record.html
- “L’ordinateur est complètement con” http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2016/08/26/gerard-berry-lordinateur-est-completement-con-257428 (c’est toujours important de le rappeler)
- “Today’s Inequality Could Easily Become Tomorrow’s Catastrophe” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/upshot/todays-inequality-could-easily-become-tomorrows-catastrophe.html?_r=0 by @RobertJShiller
- La canicule (et la bière) https://www.ina.fr/video/RCC9712053545 via http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/08/20/bon-vieux-temps-contre-la-canicule-buvez-15-litre-de-biere-par-jour/ en 1975, le bon vieux temps…
- “Data Geeks Are Taking Over Economics” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-25/data-geeks-are-taking-over-economics by @ noahpinion , and the “credibility revolution” http://www.nber.org/papers/w15794
- “Companies are intensifying their efforts to predict which workers are at a high risk of leaving” https://hbr.org/2016/09/why-people-quit-their-jobs
- “Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince” http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.00900v1.pdf
- “Heritability of Attractiveness to Mosquitoes” http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0122716 via https://theconversation.com/chemical-attraction-why-mosquitos-zone-in-on-some-people-but-not-others-40705
- “In Search of Scalability” https://salon.thefamily.co/in-search-of-scalability-5c495f8f4f0#.o938phs9o … by @Nicolas_Colin
- “Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone” http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone
- “Forget about listening to ourselves. In the age of data, algorithms have the answer” https://www.ft.com/content/50bb4830-6a4c-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c#axzz4ITEeTSei with Yuval Harari
- “Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values” http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/statisticians-found-one-thing-they-can-agree-on-its-time-to-stop-misusing-p-values/ ht @david_colquhoun
- Linear Regression http://xkcd.com/1725/
- “Quantifying the presumption of innocence” http://sci-hub.bz/10.1093/lpr/mgv016
- “On the (ab)use of statistics in the legal case against the nurse Lucia de B.” https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607340
- “Multiple sudden infant deaths – coincidence or beyond coincidence” http://sci-hub.bz/10.1111/j.1365-3016.2004.00606.x
- Damned, j’avais raté le billet de @ gunthert sur “Le gendarme à Saint-Tropez” http://imagesociale.fr/3476
- “Lire ou relire Habermas : lectures croisées du modèle de l’espace public habermassien” https://edc.revues.org/868
- “For many political psychologists, it seems abundantly clear that traits and politics go together” http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/politics-and-personality-most-of-what-you-read-is-malarkey?mbid=rss?reload but guess what…
- “Are Index Funds Communist?” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-24/are-index-funds-communist by @ matt_levine
- Diabetes ( http://www.codeblackgroup.com/news/health/22/diabetes-prevalence-in-the-united-states/ ) and Obesity ( http://www.codeblackgroup.com/news/health/21/obesity-prevalence-in-the-us/ ) Prevalence in the U.S.
- “Les plus gros trous perdus de France” http://www.datamix.fr/2016/08/les-plus-gros-trous-perdus-de-france/
- “Native mobile apps lure us away from the Web under false pretenses, and we shouldn’t let them” http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2016/08/05/use-the-web-instead/
- “Presidential Election Predictions 2016” https://www.r-statistics.com/2016/08/presidential-election-predictions-2016/
- “Olympians find it hard to resist junk food too” http://blogs.plos.org/globalhealth/2016/08/no-surprise-olympians-find-it-hard-to-resist-junk-food-too/
- “Why can we not predict earthquakes?” https://www.statslife.org.uk/environment-nature/2977-ask-a-statistician-why-can-we-not-predict-earthquakes#.V79Sspzq-2Q.twitter
- “Pour qui le burkini est-il « ostentatoire »?” http://imagesociale.fr/3494 par @ gunthert
- How decathletes compare in each event compared to the individual world records http://andybarefoot.com/olympics/decathlon.html
- “College Won’t Train You for a Job, and That’s Just Fine” http://www.wired.com/2016/08/college-wont-train-job-thats-just-fine/
- “De l’énonciation ventriloque” http://penseedudiscours.hypotheses.org/4734 par @ mapav8
- “The Language Of Headlines” http://daily.jstor.org/how-does-the-language-of-headlines-work-the-answer-may-surprise-you/
- La socio en BD http://uneheuredepeine.blogspot.fr/2016/08/la-sociologie-comme-elle-se-lit.html par @ uneheuredepeine
- “Global warming has allowed easier access to the northwest passage” http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/08/22/global_warming_has_allowed_easier_access_to_the_northwest_passage.html ht @ pierrebrt
- Jacques Neveu (1932-2016) http://smf.emath.fr/files/jacques_neveu-smf.pdf et http://smf.emath.fr/files/jacques_neveu_jardinier.pdf un homme admirable, selon tous ceux qui l’ont connu
- “Le chercheur, nouveau résistant” http://www.regards.fr/web/article/entre-les-intellectuels-et-le-pouvoir-la-rupture-est-consommee
- “Can you really tell if a kid is lying?” https://www.ted.com/talks/kang_lee_can_you_really_tell_if_a_kid_is_lying
- “Voyage dans les internets” 60/70 http://www.davduf.net/voyage-dans-les-internets-1-5-60-70-s-l-echo 70/80 http://www.davduf.net/voyage-dans-les-internets-2-3-70-80-039-s-cowboys 90 http://www.davduf.net/voyage-dans-les-internets-3-5-les-annees-1990-un
- “Significant Data on Child Detention” http://endchilddetention.org/significant-data-on-child-detention ht @ cdb_77
- ” @ Tahar_B_Jelloun explique le terrorisme aux enfants” http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/linvite-culture/tahar-ben-jelloun-explique-le-terrorisme-aux-enfants
- Selling Papers https://theamericanscholar.org/selling-my-papers/#.V72T7pMrKHp
- “The world is divided into people who sit on the floor and those who sit on a chair” http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/08/23/sitting-up/
- “Philippa Perry delves into the world of childhood deception to discover when and why children lie” http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p045n621
- “The Funky Math of the Electoral College” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-funky-math-of-the-electoral-college/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_POLE_BLOG poke @ geopolitics2020
- “How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet” http://time.com/4457110/internet-trolls/
- “There is little correlation between bonus and performance and this is backed by widespread academic evidence” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/star-fund-bonuses-end-neil-woodford-manager-axes-wrong-behaviour-neil-woodford-a7203581.html
- “It’s time to bring more realistic models of human behaviour into economic policy and regulation:” https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/08/23/its-time-to-bring-more-realistic-models-of-human-behaviour-into-economic-policy-and-regulation/
- “Exit the Dragon? Kung Fu, Once Central to Hong Kong Life, Is Waning” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/world/asia/hong-kong-kung-fu.html
- “Is it best to expect the worst?” http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/08/02/annonc.mdw266 (influence of patients’ side-effect expectations on endocrine treatment outcome)
- “Liberal, Moderate or Conservative ? See How Facebook Labels You” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/us/politics/facebook-ads-politics.html
perf: 6 - Jusqu’où les promos ? http://www.olivierdauvers.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TGC-151.pdf par @ Dauvers70
- “l’augmentation de la capacité des routes aboutit à une hausse des temps de trajet, et à une augmentation du trafic” http://transports.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/08/23/voitures-evaporees
- “1 in 5 scientific papers on genes contain errors because of Excel” http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
- “Private lives are exposed as WikiLeaks spills its secrets” http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b70da83fd111496dbdf015acbb7987fb/private-lives-are-exposed-wikileaks-spills-its-secrets
- “La France est prise à contre-pied par un phénomène qui n’entre pas dans son système de références spontané” http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/0211223891544-nous-allons-devoir-revenir-a-une-laicite-de-combat-2022491.php
- biological, not adoptive parents transmit body weight and obesity to their children, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X1630106X?np=y ht @ razibkhan
- “Le naufrage moral de la France” http://www.authueil.org/?2016/08/23/2335-le-burkini-et-le-naufrage-moral-de-la-france
- “Pourquoi les héroïnes de séries américaines boivent-elles toutes du vin” http://www.slate.fr/story/122507/heroines-series-americaines-vin (et pas qu’un peu)
- “Early emerging system for reasoning about the social nature of food” http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/08/02/1605456113.full.pdf via http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/opinion/sunday/babies-watching-people-eat.html
- What do British prisoners use as currency https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2016/aug/23/what-do-british-prisoners-use-as-currency?CMP=twt_gu ramen noddles, not tobacco https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/22/ramen-prison-currency-study
- “Scientists and science communicators are engaged in a constant battle with ignorance” https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2016/aug/23/scientists-losing-science-communication-skeptic-cox?CMP=share_btn_tw ht @ pash22
- “Making Peace with Self-Promotion” http://www.beforetheabstract.com/2016/07/19/making-peace-with-self-promotion-2/
- “Chiffrement et lutte contre le terrorisme : attention à ne pas se tromper de cible” http://cnnumerique.fr/tribune-chiffrement/ par @ cnnum
- “How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds” https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.s6c6pdat3 see also http://www.tristanharris.com/2016/03/tech-companies-design-your-life-heres-why-you-should-care/
- “Think It’s Hot Now? Just Wait” http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/20/sunday-review/climate-change-hot-future.html
- “Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries” http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201666
- “Save This Man’s Life by Transplanting His Head” http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-audacious-plan-to-save-this-mans-life-by-transplanting-his-head/492755
- “Too-Systemic-to-Fail: What Option Markets Imply about Sector-Wide Government Guarantees” https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20120389 ht http://econbrowser.com/archives/2016/08/too-systemic-to-fail
- L’informatique arrive à l’éducation nationale, dès le primaire (léger, certes) http://algothymio.blogspot.fr/p/thymio.html
- “Climat : la chimère du 1,5°C” http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2016/08/22/la-chimere-du-1-5-c_4985913_3244.html (paywall, alternative https://seenthis.net/messages/517943 )
- “German minister calls for introduction of facial recognition software at airports and train stations” http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0821/810806-germany-facial-recognition
- “Comme en France, l’Allemagne pousse pour de la reconnaissance faciale dans les gares et les aéroports” http://www.numerama.com/politique/190318-lallemagne-pousse-pour-de-la-reconnaissance-faciale-dans-les-gares-et-les-aeroports.html
- “Le Sénat, un paradis fiscal pour des parlementaires fantômes” http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/stefanovitch-le-senat-4-ou-5-jours-par-mois-pour-11-350-euros-net-mensuels-17-06-2016-2047403_20.php ht @ monde_libre
- “Europe is heading towards a “cataclysmic event” that could lead to the collapse of the euro ” http://www.businessinsider.de/joseph-stiglitz-on-italy-collapse-and-the-end-of-the-euro-2016-8 with @ JosephEStiglitz
- “Increasing Ideological Uniformity and Partisan Antipathy Affect Politics” http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/
- “j’apprenais devant vous, prenant le plus de risques possible, dans une certaine solitude” http://hyperbate.fr/voir/2011/11/20/morphologie/
- Mortality http://www.thelancet.com/lancet/visualisations/mortality
- “On meurt de 2.4 causes, en moyenne” http://www.marianne.net/on-meurt-24-causes-moyenne-autres-stats-etonnantes-grande-faucheuse-100245181.html
- Anomaly Detection, “Finding a Needle in a Haystack” http://www.prcconsulting.net/2016/07/machine-learning-anomaly-detection-finding-a-needle-in-a-haystack/ ht @ KirkDBorne
- Hakim Bey, http://tracks.arte.tv/fr/hakim-bey-mille-millards-de-mille-sabordages chez @ tracks_ARTE
- “Can you get to know a person through data alone? ” https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/21/dear-data-stefanie-posavec-giorgia-lupi
- “Searching for Mr. Hyde: A five-factor approach tocharacterizing “types of drunks” http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/16066359.2015.1029920
- Bad science is nothing new, but it might cost billions http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/counterpoint/is-bad-science-costing-us-billions/7750868 ht @ SimonGandevia
- “Les données comme première trame urbaine” http://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/blogues/le-blogue-urbain/477441/les-donnees-premiere-trame-urbaine
- “L’hystérisation infernale des faits divers” https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/190816/l-hysterisation-infernale-des-faits-divers (#paywall cf https://seenthis.net/messages/517769 )
- “Expliquer est-ce (un peu) excuser ?” http://www.mezetulle.fr/expliquer-est-ce-un-peu-excuser/
- “«Culture de l’excuse» : les sociologues répondent à Valls” http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/01/12/culture-de-l-excuse-les-sociologues-repondent-a-valls_1425855
- “« Expliquer, c’est déjà vouloir un peu excuser » : la cinglante réponse des chercheurs à Manuel Valls” http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2016/03/03/terrorisme-la-cinglante-reponse-des-sciences-sociales-a-manuel-valls_4875959_3224.html
- Documentaire “Musulmans de France” : 1904-1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-Y1YKen50 , 1945-1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P67WC7mXxoQ , 1981-2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoACVB7kLz4
- “Prison breakthrough” http://www.economist.com/news/economics-brief/21705308-fifth-our-series-seminal-economic-ideas-looks-nash-equilibrium-prison series on seminal economic ideas looks at the Nash equilibrium
- “The celebrities both Republicans and Democrats love” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/17/the-celebrities-both-republicans-and-democrats-both-love-according-to-research/
- “The most popular target for photographers was his genitals. People were obsessed with them” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/magazine/davids-ankles-how-imperfections-could-bring-down-the-worlds-most-perfect-statue.html
- “Et si les Américains ne votaient ni pour Clinton, ni pour Trump” http://www.lesinrocks.com/2016/08/20/actualite/americains-ne-votaient-clinton-trump-11859369/ par @ galebourg
- “Ce que l’affaire burkini nous dit de l’état de notre société” http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/nathalie-goulet/interdiction-burkini-france-societe_b_11562246.html
- “An Introduction to Blockchain and de-centralised apps” http://d2zmdbbm9feqrf.cloudfront.net/2016/usa/pdf/DEVNET-1192.pdf (or mp4 version http://d2zmdbbm9feqrf.cloudfront.net/2016/usa/DEVNET-1192.mp4 )
- “Nails Fracking as Source of Massive Methane ’Hot Spot’” http://commondreams.org/news/2016/08/16/nasa-study-nails-fracking-source-massive-methane-hot-spot
- “Does Henry Kissinger Have a Conscience ?” http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/does-henry-kissinger-have-a-conscience
- Is big data in big trouble https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/is-big-data-in-big-trouble/ “Should we run for the hills, far away from the BI and big data space before it implodes”
- “Il faut savoir que, pour un élu français (….) si on n’est pas d’accord, c’est qu’on ne l’a pas compris” http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/fathi-derder/crise-economique-france_b_3227852.html
- “depuis quand cite-t-on les nazis pour justifier des mesures incisives aux droits et libertés individuels ?” https://francoischarlet.ch/2016/rien-a-cacher/
- “Dans une file d’attente, ce n’est pas la réalité qui compte, mais la perception de l’attente” http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/2013/07/24/classe-eco-ete-comment-reduire-les-files-dattente-au-parc-dattraction.html par @ adelaigue
- “Les interdictions du ‘burkini’ en France ont à voir avec bien autre chose que la religion ou l’habillement” https://mounadil.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/burkini-et-crise-de-lidentite-francaise-vus-par-le-new-york-times
- “Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis” http://sci-hub.bz/10.1056/nejmp1604412
- “Hyperconnectés, Le Cerveau en surcharge” http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/061653-000-A/hyperconnectes-le-cerveau-en-surcharge (le mois prochain sur @ ARTEfr )
- “Sentient machines are a greater threat to humanity than climate change” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/12/nick-bostrom-artificial-intelligence-machine?CMP=share_btn_tw
- “The network distilled the concept of ‘cat face’ out of the data without any guidance” http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n16/paul-taylor/the-concept-of-cat-face
- “What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence” http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-1465827619
- “Contre le terrorisme, Twitter rappelle l’absence d’algorithme magique” http://www.nextinpact.com/news/101026-contre-terrorisme-twitter-rappelle-absence-dalgorithme-magique.htm (certaines évidences sont bonnes à rappeler)
- “Predictive policing predicts police harassment, not crime” http://boingboing.net/2016/08/18/predictive-policing-predicts-p.html see http://sci-hub.cc/downloads/6fa8/10.1007@s11292-016-9272-0.pdf
- “France’s Burkini Bigotry” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/opinion/frances-burkini-bigotry.html “the heart of the dispute is something far darker”
- “Rise of the DIY algo traders: Can tech-savvy amateurs beat the market — and the hedge funds?” https://www.ft.com/content/0a706330-5f28-11e6-ae3f-77baadeb1c93#axzz4HTlqLzb5 ht @ TofGovaerts
- amusant de voir le positionnement de ‘economics’ par rapport aux sciences sociales ou humaines https://twitter.com/labUAngers/status/766526419430105089
- RT @ Denis_Gouaux : 1922. Etats-Unis. La brigade des bains s’assure que les tenues féminines sont bien conformes à la loi NA
- “De plus en plus confient leur épargne non plus à un conseiller financier, mais à un algorithme” http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/comment-les-robo-advisors-vont-bousculer-le-monde-de-l-epargne-39840786.htm ht @ arnaud_thurudev
- “The no-asshole rule”, “K-index”, etc https://cubistcrystal.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/imagine-theres-new-metrics-its-easy-if-you-try/ “imagine there’s new metrics” ht @ Alexis_Verger
- Quand la France ne fait plus rire…. http://quadruppani.blogspot.com/2016/08/la-france-encore-pete-et-ca-ne-me-fait.html
- “Les médias ont-ils traité l’attentat de Nice différemment du 13-Novembre?” http://www.slate.fr/story/122285/medias-attentat-nice-13-novembre
- “Facial recognition – a powerful ad tool or privacy nightmare?” https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/aug/17/facial-recognition-a-powerful-ad-tool-or-privacy-nightmare?CMP=share_btn_tw
- “A look at a cinematic masterpiece that changed the visual effects landscape” http://nerdapproved.com/movies/jurassic-park-holds-up/ via https://youtu.be/_rlr3Lzvqog
- “Donald Trump’s Lack of Respect for Science Is Alarming” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/donald-trump-s-lack-of-respect-for-science-is-alarming/ ht @ nholzschuch
- “Why Statistics Should Be A Mandatory Part of High School Education” http://blogs.plos.org/scied/2016/08/18/why-statistics-should-be-mandatory/
- “How concerned are you..?”, ht @ JustinSandefur
- “Conversation with John Cochrane” part 1 http://econreporter.com/2016/08/35782/ and part 2 http://econreporter.com/2016/08/36071
- La crise du lait qui doit tout à l’industrie laitière, et qui accuse la Chine d’être responsable de ses malheurs http://geographiesenmouvement.blogs.liberation.fr/2016/08/17/chinois-un-effort-pour-boire-du-lait/
- “Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression” http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03282
- Marathon finishing time https://plot.ly/~eecastro/0/distribution-of-marathon-finishing-times/ ht @ ze_armavi
- “Truth, lies, and stereotypes: when scientists ignore evidence” https://aeon.co/essays/truth-lies-and-stereotypes-when-scientists-ignore-evidence ht @ davdittrich
- RT @ shutupmikeginn : Sorry NBC but a green backdrop is asking for trouble. https://twitter.com/shutupmikeginn/status/766029035537215488/video/1
- “‘Old School’ Econ 101 for the New Generation of Economists” http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/08/must-read-this-will-be-very-interesting-to-watch-go-forward-matt-kahn-is-very-sharp-and-yet-thinks-substantially-diffe.html ht @ delong see free textbook https://openstax.org/details/principles-microeconomics
- guess what http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/news/20160816/ “July 2016 is Warmest on Record”
- “Why government leaders should publish the data they’re collecting — and why citizens everywhere should push them” http://ideas.ted.com/how-open-government-data-creates-smarter-societies/
- Syria, rescuing kids https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/video-shows-boy-rescued-from-rubble-in-syria/2016/08/17/4fca4450-64c8-11e6-b4d8-33e931b5a26d_video.html
- “This Is What’s Missing From Journalism Right Now” http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/08/whats-missing-from-journalism ht @ BenedictEvans
- What if the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map
- “When a measure becomes a target, it is no longer a measure” http://www.vox.com/2016/8/16/12482748/success-academy-schools-standardized-tests-metrics-charter (Goodhart’s law)
- “Liberalism and hate-based extremism” http://understandingsociety.blogspot.fr/2016/08/liberalism-and-hate-based-extremism.html
- “GIS in the Era of Big Data” https://cybergeo.revues.org/27647
- “Est-il possible de condamner à 2 ans de prison ferme un homme pour lecture régulière et répétée de Mein Kampf ?” http://affordance.typepad.com//mon_weblog/2016/08/confidentialite-acte-lecture.html
- “We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated” http://nautil.us/blog/why-we-shouldnt-accept-unrepeated-scienceour-author-responds-to-his-critics (part 2)
- “As Wildfires Rage in California, Experts Say They Are Getting Bigger and Costing More” http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/25/us/wildfire-seasons-los-angeles.html?smid=pl-share
- “Lies, Damned Lies and Munchausen Syndrome” https://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/2016/08/lies-damned-lies-and-munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy/
- “Academic journal articles with ‘clickbait-y’ characteristics are shared more widely” http://phys.org/news/2016-08-academic-journal-articles-clickbait-y-characteristics.html
- J. Stuart Hunter, on W. Edwards Deming’s career and the future of statistics https://blog.deming.org/2016/07/a-historical-look-at-demings-career-lecture-by-j-stuart-hunter/
- En France, “4 sportifs de haut-niveau sur 10 sous le seuil de pauvreté” http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/sport/jeux-olympiques-rio-2016/20160812.OBS6245/jo-2016-athletes-medailles-a-rio-travailleurs-mal-payes-en-france.html via @ limportant_fr
- “Wishing And Hoping” http://therumpus.net/2016/08/wishing-and-hoping-card-tricks-love-spells-and-methods-of-escape/
- “The world’s most famous school aspires to become an agent of social change” https://www.1843magazine.com/features/eton-and-the-making-of-a-modern-elite
- “« amalgames », réflexions critiques sur un nouveau registre discursif” http://lmsi.net/Amalgames
- “La religion, une affaire privée ?” http://lmsi.net/La-religion-une-affaire-privee
- An Algorithm that renders a desired input string in an author’s handwriting http://visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/handwriting
- “A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon” https://github.com/mapbox/polylabel see https://www.mapbox.com/blog/polygon-center
- “The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivor Studies: Discrepancies Between Results and General Perception” http://www.genetics.org/content/203/4/1505
- “Are internet populists ruining democracy for the rest of us?” https://theconversation.com/are-internet-populists-ruining-democracy-for-the-rest-of-us-63229
- Rainfall and Flood, in Louisiana, http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/88000/
- Commitment to data-driven decisions is transforming management of sports. Other industries can — and should — follow http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/stephen-curry-the-golden-state-warriors-and-the-power-of-analytics-at-work/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sm-direct
- “Internalised misogyny: Where women think it’s acceptable to beat your wife” http://glasbrint.com/2016/08/15/domestic-violence/
- “Shadowy digital libraries want to hold all the world’s knowledge and give it away for free” http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rise-of-illegal-pirate-libraries
- “L’essor des bibliothèques clandestines” http://www.slate.fr/story/120383/essor-bibliotheques-clandestines
- Clusivity Map http://linguisticmaps.tumblr.com/post/120858467508/514-clusivity-clusivity-refers-to-the-marking
- “The Generations of Economic Journalism” http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2016.08.14/1913
- “Why you should never use the Hodrick-Prescott filter” http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jhamilto/hp.pdf via http://econbrowser.com/archives/2016/08/why-you-should-never-use-the-hodrick-prescott-filter ht @ markthoma
- “If you want to talk climate change, you need to go up to NYC and Boston to do that. You don’t talk that down here” http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DIVIDED_AMERICA_CLIMATE
- “How Dark Is Dark? Bright Lights, Big City, Racial Profiling” http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/REST_a_00543#.V7IBg2WZbuQ ht @ carlos_d_diazht
- “Death by Medical Error” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/upshot/death-by-medical-error-adding-context-to-some-scary-numbers.html?_r=0
- “What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?” https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-understand-advanced-mathematics/answers/873950?srid=p6KQ&share=1
- “Testing for Racial Discrimination in Police Searches of Motor Vehicles” http://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.05376v1 ht @ tylercowen
- “The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority” https://medium.com/@nntaled/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15#.s96ff4vlk by @ nntaleb
- “Towards Open Science: The Case for a Decentralized Autonomous Academic Endorsement System” https://zenodo.org/record/60054/files/aes.pdf
- “British woman held after being seen reading book about Syria on plane” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/04/british-woman-held-after-being-seen-reading-book-about-syria-on-plane then book sales soar https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/11/sales-of-syrian-culture-anthology-soar-after-woman-held-for-reading-it-on-plane
- “The Minority Report” http://www.cwanderson.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Philip-K-Dick-The-Minority-Report.pdf by Philip K. Dick, 1956
- “Why terrorism does not work” http://daily.jstor.org/terrorists-ever-win/
- “Like many political terms, populism is rather loosely defined, but has at its core a popular-based,..” http://daily.jstor.org/populism-for-beginners/
- “Should We Set a Speed Limit on High-Speed Trading?” http://daily.jstor.org/speed-limit-high-speed-trading/
- In the U.S., the first national census took place on August 2, 1790… http://daily.jstor.org/happy-birthday-national-census/
- “When Refrigeration was Controversial” http://daily.jstor.org/when-refrigeration-was-controversial/ ht @ BatizLazo
- “Should researchers make public all the data they collect when testing drugs and medical devices on patients?” https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/04/elizabeth-warren-open-data/?s_campaign=tw&utm_content=buffered09f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer (yes)
- In California, one couple uses more water than every home in Los Angeles combined http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/lynda-stewart-resnick-california-water
- we’re going to challenge moral decisions made by IA, but actually, no human is ever questioned about those issues https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/764799239134339072
- “Model evaluation, model selection, and algorithm selection in machine learning” (part 2) http://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2016/model-evaluation-selection-part2.html
- via @ jeangrey2k “People never realize how big Texas is”
- “Gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by AI, such as self-driving car” http://moralmachine.mit.edu/
- “What Virtual Reality Is Good For? Movies and gaming, right? Wrong” http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/08/the_only_good_reasons_to_use_virtual_reality_and_the_current_vr_renaissance.html?curator=MediaREDEF
- “dans le canton de Vaud les magistrats vont jusqu’à ordonner la surveillance téléphonique rétroactive des appareils” http://www.lematin.ch/lematindimanche/justice-fouille-telephones-demasquer-chauffards/story/17023479
- “Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?” https://theconversation.com/can-big-data-studies-know-your-thoughts-and-predict-who-will-win-an-election-63110
- “Au Chili forte mobilisation contre le système de retraites privées” http://www.lesechos.fr/monde/ameriques/0211199767831-au-chili-forte-mobilisation-contre-le-systeme-de-retraites-privees-2020224.php (voir aussi http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-chile-social-security-20160812-snap-story.html )
- in the U.S. “over a two-year period, 30% of those with private health insurance received a surprise medical bill” http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/08/_balance_billing_and_drive_by_doctors_are_contributing_to_growing_out_of.html
- “If a work of fiction has any force to it, we close the book with a head full of images, lines, and emotions” http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/is-it-story-that-makes-us-read.html
- “Pierre Bayle, the ’forgotten hero’ of the Enlightenment” http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/08/tolerant-philosopher-why-pierre-bayle-forgotten-figure-enlightenment
- “No love, actuary” http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21704796-report-american-pension-funds-controversially-shelved-no-love-actuary?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/no_love_actuary
- “Trends in global inequality” https://youtu.be/8FIlcChQsmE
- animation from @ nytgraphics’s https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/764580759311187968
- “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart, https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf ht @ WilliamChyr
- “From regions to connections and networks: new bridges between brain and behavior” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095943881630054X
- “A Quick Guide to Value-Based Pricing” https://hbr.org/2016/08/a-quick-guide-to-value-based-pricing
- “En cet été 2016, la loi est-elle encore véritablement la même pour tous ?” http://www.blogdroitadministratif.net/index.php/2016/06/08/354-la-loi-n-est-plus-la-meme-pour-tous ht @ thi_loup
- “Academic Struggles Predicted by Late 19th and Early 20th Century Autobiographies” http://www.academiaobscura.com/7-academic-struggles/
- “Is Sunscreen A Lifesaver Or A Poison?” http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-sunscreen-a-lifesaver-or-a-poison/
- “Universities urgently need to rediscover their civic mission” http://wonkhe.com/blogs/comment-universities-urgently-rediscover-civic-mission/ by @ smitajamdar
- “Common ecology quantifies human insurgency” http://sci-hub.bz/10.1038/nature08631
- via @ Denis_Gouaux Depuis 1970 le regroupement familial pour les familles des émigrés est passé de 80000 à 12000 / an
- in 2013 (but still valid, I guess) https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men “Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?”
- “The Dirty Little Secret of Finance: Asymmetric Information” http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-11/the-dirty-little-secret-of-finance-asymmetric-information by @ noahpinion
- “Should the true costs of insuring deposits be made clearer?” https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/08/12/should-the-true-costs-of-insuring-deposits-of-up-to-75000-be-made-clearer/ ht @ markthoma
- “Contre le terrorisme, la machine législative est devenue folle” http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/08/12/contre-le-terrosisme-la-machine-legislative-est-devenue-folle_4982062_3232.html
- CPGE “formation pluridisciplinaire par excellence” #waitwhat http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2016/08/11/l-art-de-se-preparer-a-la-classe-prepa_4981440_4401467.html (les tocards qui vont à la fac peuvent encore souffler)
- Stars and Stripes https://anticap.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/cartoon-of-the-day-1691/
- “When Law is Not Justice” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/opinion/when-law-is-not-justice.html
- “How The Arab World Came Apart” http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html
- “Data suggest that couples who have sons are more likely to stay together than those that don’t” https://www.1843magazine.com/features/its-a-boy-thing by @ EmilyBobrow
- “The Evolution of the 21st-Century Scientist” http://www.americanscientist.org/blog/pub/the-evolution-of-the-21st-century-scientist
- about “The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet” http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21602984-why-everything-you-heard-about-fat-wrong-case-eating-steak-and-cream see http://thebigfatsurprise.com/
- Donald Trump as research scholar, ht @ AcademicsSay
- “Explaining Nationalist Political Views: The Case of Donald Trump” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2822059 via https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/12/a-massive-new-study-debunks-a-widespread-theory-for-donald-trumps-success/
- For an American perspective, what’s really across the Atlantic ocean? http://metrocosm.com/whats-across-the-ocean/
- “The amazing power of word vectors” https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/21/the-amazing-power-of-word-vectors/ ht @ YhatHQ
- “Antihistamines and Antihubrisines” http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/HoldingPen/SunsetSalvo.pdf
- “Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World” http://www.theonion.com/article/michael-phelps-returns-to-his-tank-at-sea-world-2515
- “What happens when you pee in the pool?” https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/what-happens-when-you-pee-pool
- “The Election Won’t Be Rigged. But It Could Be Hacked” by @ zeynep http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/campaign-stops/the-election-wont-be-rigged-but-it-could-be-hacked.html
- “When will our risk aversion wear off?” http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-riskaversion-idUSTRE7A86GJ20111109 ht @ victorricciardi
- on Clinton Plan http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2016/08/clinton-plan.html “So how can I say there is no ‘plan’?”
- “Greenland sharks live to be ridiculously old — and may not have sex until they’re 150” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/11/greenland-sharks-live-to-be-ridiculously-old-and-may-not-have-sex-until-theyre-150/
- “Enquête : Oui, les profs de français et philo peuvent porter des tongs” https://edukactus.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/enquete-oui-les-profs-de-francais-et-philo-peuvent-porter-des-tongs/ ht @ francoisdeneve
- “Signals, Intelligence” https://medium.com/@thegrugq/signal-intelligence-free-for-all-5993c2f72f90#.db70w65ld ht @ chris_bour
- “How Deep Learning Solved Phase 1 Of The @ DataScienceGame%22 https://medium.com/@Zelros/how-deep-learning-solved-phase-1-of-the-data-science-game-2712b949963f#.z9d6esxhz ht @ ly_antoine
- “Limiter le chiffrement” http://edgard.fdn.fr/blog/index.php?post/2016/08/12/Limiter-le-chiffrement
- “Will Reading Romance Novels Make Artificial Intelligence More Human?” http://daily.jstor.org/will-reading-romance-novels-make-artificial-intelligence-more-human
- “Les plus aisés sont davantage aidés pour partir en vacances” http://www.inegalites.fr/spip.php?page=analyse&id_article=2172&id_rubrique=110&id_mot=42&id_groupe=13
- “Why Facebook Is Really Blocking the Ad Blockers” http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-facebook-is-really-blocking-the-ad-blockers
- “Academic Writing, A Productive Process” https://explorationsofstyle.com/2016/08/12/a-productive-process/
- “Why American Schools Are Even More Unequal Than We Thought” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/upshot/why-american-schools-are-even-more-unequal-than-we-thought.html by @ dynarski
- “New insights into the evolution of cooperation in spatially structured populations” http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/p-nii080816.php
- “Everything is fucked: The syllabus” https://hardsci.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/everything-is-fucked-the-syllabus/ ht @ Undercoverhist
- “The economics of SSHRC research grants” http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2016/08/sshrc1.html (1) http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2016/08/sshrc2.html (2)
http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2016/08/sshrc3.html (3) - “Perhaps it might be time to abandon altogether the idea of childbirth as a moral experience?” https://thehairpin.com/monstrous-births-3d666cda5030#.ylhp1ih9c ht @ tylercowen
- “How To Hack An Election In Seven Minutes” http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144#ixzz4GSuIBNwd
- “The Greenland shark may live four centuries” http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-shark-idUSKCN10M208
- “Linking academic research with the public and policy-makers” http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/august-2016/linking-academic-research-with-the-public-and-policy-makers/
- “The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber” http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber or “the Brain of the Sports Fan” http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-unique-neurology-of-the-sports-fans-brain
- “We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance” http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/we-are-nowhere-close-to-the-limits-of-athletic-performance
- “To Understand Religion, Think Football” http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/to-understand-religion-think-football-rp
- “There Is No Scientific Method” http://wmbriggs.com/post/19505/ “We’re all self-correcting…”, by @ mattstat
- “After Babylon” http://www.puffpuffproject.com/languages.html “2.678 living languages in the world placed in their birthplace”
- “The economic impact of universities: Evidence from across the globe” http://www.eua.be/Libraries/nrc-activities/valero-amp-mimeo-2016_the-economic-impact-of-universities—evidence-from-across-the-globe.pdf via http://www.blog-illusio.com/2016/08/quel-est-l-impact-economique-des-universites.html ht @ pygeoffard
- “The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial” https://theconversation.com/the-galileo-gambit-and-other-stories-the-three-main-tactics-of-climate-denial-63719
- “What if medals were awarded in proportion to a sport’s popularity?” http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-countries-medal-in-the-sports-that-people-care-about/
- “Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor” http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature19085.html
- “Science is increasingly complex, and collaborative research is still being written and published using old tools” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/how-to-bring-science-publishing-into-the-21st-century/
- “Seas aren’t just rising, it’s worse than that. They’re speeding up” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/10/seas-arent-just-rising-scientists-say-theyre-speeding-up/ see also http://www.nature.com/articles/srep31245
- “The House of Cards d’Hillary” http://www.dedefensa.org/article/the-house-of-cards-dhillary
- “Connected World: Untangling the Air Traffic Network” http://www.martingrandjean.ch/connected-world-air-traffic-network/ by @ GrandjeanMartin ht @ rekacewicz
- “Fox News generated 35% of Facebook interactions on posts about US election” https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/fox-news-is-winning-the-us-presidential-election-on-facebook/s2/a662154/ by @ MohamedBlmz
- “Being ‘job ready’ is not the purpose of university science degrees” https://theconversation.com/being-job-ready-is-not-the-purpose-of-university-science-degrees-63711
- “Text analysis of Trump’s tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half” http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/
- Drivers of Income Inequality using Panel VARs with Heterogeneous Dynamics http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp16160.pdf
- “Life Expectancy vs. Health Expenditure” ht @ MaxCRoser
- Russian Self-Driving Car (alpha version, or sort of) http://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/763110593100382209/video/1
- “Donald Trump and the Limits of Data Journalism” http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/donald-trump-and-the-limits-of-data-journalism
- “Europe’s banks have had a rough year. Yet a true banking union is also deeply flawed” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-09/the-big-idea-that-won-t-fix-europe-s-banks by @ tylercowen
- “Economics Without Math Is Trendy, But It Doesn’t Add Up” http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-08/economics-without-math-is-trendy-but-it-doesn-t-add-up by @ Noahpinion
- “How the contemporary art boom is hurting the bottom line” https://theconversation.com/museum-economics-how-the-contemporary-art-boom-is-hurting-the-bottom-line-58619
- “Beatles Songs by Sentiment” http://duelingdata.blogspot.fr/2016/08/beatles-sentiment-analysis_8.html
- “Big pharma, big data, même combat” http://blog.mondediplo.net/2016-08-08-Big-pharma-big-data-meme-combat
- “Which Countries Have Dominated the Summer Olympics?” http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/08/sports/olympics/history-olympic-dominance-charts.html ht @ recifs
- “Facebook Removes Potential Evidence of Police Brutality Too Readily” https://theintercept.com/2016/08/08/facebook-removes-potential-evidence-of-police-brutality-too-readily-activists-say/
- Les Avengers, nés à Marseille en 1916, http://www.lasardineduport.fr/marseillais-imagine-avangers-avant-stan-lee ht @ baroug
- “A key purpose of a PhD is to destroy a young person’s ability to enjoy leisure” https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/workload-survival-guide-for-academics
- “From medical treatment to diet and lifestyle choice: how to spot unreliable health research” https://theconversation.com/from-medical-treatment-to-diet-and-lifestyle-choice-how-to-spot-unreliable-health-research-63572
- “People who read books live longer lives, study says” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/read-books-live-longer/ see http://sci-hub.bz/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.07.014
- “L’empreinte écologique : un indicateur ambigu” https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00519544/ ht @ thi_loup
- “First Maya tomb and hieroglyph panels found in Belize tell story of iconic civilisation” http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/largest-mayan-tomb-hieroglyph-panels-found-belize-tell-story-iconic-civilisation-1574082
- “« Teach for France », un danger pour l’école publique” http://www.humanite.fr/teach-france-un-danger-pour-lecole-publique-613350 (paywall) via https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/la-revue-de-presse/la-revue-de-presse-09-aout-2016
- “When Does Education Level Matter in Data Science?” http://www.7wdata.be/data-analysis/when-does-education-level-matter-in-data-science/ ht @ KirkDBorne
- “Physics of gymnastics” https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/sports/physics-of-gymnastics-uneven-bars-explained-by-a-professor/2016/08/06/68b24db4-5b4f-11e6-8b48-0cb344221131_video.html
- “Pokémon Go marque une étape de plus vers la société de surveillance en rendant amusante… la perte de vie privée” http://www.lactualite.com/societe/pokemon-go-bouffe-vos-donnees-personnelles/
- “Do Your Friends Actually Like You?” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/do-your-friends-actually-like-you.html (spoiler: a lot of them don’t) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151588
- “No psychoanalyzing Donald Trump” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/07/the-american-psychiatric-association-reminds-its-doctors-no-psychoanalyzing-donald-trump/?tid=sm_tw
- “What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?” https://theconversation.com/what-if-intelligent-machines-could-learn-from-each-other-60102
- “Sinkholes et dolines” http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/en-images-sinkholes-ou-dolines-ces-trous-geants-qui-engouffrent-tout_1802852.html
- “Minsky’s Many Moments” https://www.ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/minskys-many-moments by @ econarjun
- “Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behaviour” http://sci-hub.bz/10.1093/oxrep/gri020
- “Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?” http://tertilt.vwl.uni-mannheim.de/research/WomenDecember08.pdf
- “Deworming Delusions and the flimsiness of ‘evidence-based policy’” http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/deworming-delusions-and-the-search-for-scientific-certainty/ see also http://blog.givewell.org/2016/07/26/deworming-might-huge-impact-might-close-zero-impact/ ht @ cblatts
- “What is the efficient-markets hypothesis and how good a working model is it?” http://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2016/video/are-markets-efficient
- “Popcorn: critical temperature, jump and sound” http://emmanuelvirot.free.fr/virot2015popcornjump.pdf ht @ MarcAbrahams
- reminds me of many books I bought recently http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955912/?page=1 ht @ MarcAbrahams
- “So long, Marianne: Leonard Cohen writes to muse just before her death” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/07/so-long-marianne-leonard-cohen-writes-to-muse-just-before-her-death?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://youtu.be/tQ4M2wsTgYA
- “It Seems Factual, But Is It? Effects of Using Sharp versus Round Numbers in Advertising Claims” http://business.camden.rutgers.edu/files/Schindler-Yalch-2006.pdf
- “Bank runs aren’t madness: This model explained why ” http://review.chicagobooth.edu/magazine/summer-2014/bank-runs-arent-madness-this-model-explained-why (back in 2014) ht @ dg_risk
- “Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/us/politics/think-tanks-research-and-corporate-lobbying.html?_r=0
- “The World’s Biggest Asshole” ht @ tylercowen https://youtu.be/TeVLxcekEsw
- “Alcohol Consumption in Relation to Average Annual Temperature” http://statpedia.com/stat/Alcohol_Consumption_in_Relation_to_Average_Annual_Temperature/SyCE3cGK
- “Time Discounting and Economic Decision-making Among the Elderly” http://www.nber.org/papers/w22438
- unwilling to price nature http://evonomics.com/if-we-say-nature-is-priceless/ the best protection we have against it being packaged up, owned, bought, sold or used up?
- “Can’t Understand Why Trump Is Winning? Here’s What Cognitive Science Says” http://evonomics.com/no-one-knows-why-trump-is-winning/
- “Many of the laws of economics are far more like the rules of a game than like the laws of nature” http://evonomics.com/rewrite-the-rules-invisible-hand/
- “Do Markets Make Us Fair, Trusting, and Cooperative or Bring out the Worst in Us?” http://evonomics.com/do-markets-make-us-fair-trusting-joseph-henrich/
- “Learning Deep Genera,ve Models”, @ rsalakhu’s slides http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rsalakhu/talk_Montreal_2016_Salakhutdinov.pdf
- “Slow motion increases perceived intent” http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/07/27/1603865113.full via http://www.businessinsider.de/study-finds-slow-motion-video-can-lead-to-bias-2016-8?r=US&IR=T about perception of crimes captured on video
- “Scientific literature: Information overload” http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7612-457a
- “What Julian Assange’s War on Hillary Clinton Says About WikiLeaks” https://theintercept.com/2016/08/06/accusing-wikileaks-bias-beside-point/
- On French Terrorism http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36978516
- On “libertarianish ” https://medium.com/@s8mb/im-a-neoliberal-maybe-you-are-too-b809a2a588d6#.j2nqzc7pt
- “3 things can be said about neoliberalism, none of which I’d expect past me, or the average libertarian to endorse” http://bensouthwood.tumblr.com/post/68356441500/neoliberalism
- “The Economics of Rights: Does the Right to Counsel Increase Crime?” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2810046 ht @ tylercowen
- “About 6900 people died in police custody in Texas in 2005-2015” https://exploratory.io/viz/hideaki/23c7ee5c68b1?cb=1470306156631
- “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment” http://web.archive.org/web/20151004200748/http://law.indiana.edu/instruction/profession/doc/16_1.pdf by Charlie Munger, see also https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d#.n103ayqyc on interesting “models”
- “Was the Rise of Neoliberalism the Root Cause of Extreme Inequality?” http://evonomics.com/rise-of-neoliberalism-inequality/
- “Internet trolls are more abusive when using their real names” http://globalnews.ca/news/2855416/forget-anonymity-internet-trolls-are-more-abusive-when-using-their-real-names-study-finds so forget anonymity, ht @ recifs
- “Evolution of an Accidental Meme: How one little graphic became shared and adapted” https://medium.com/@CRA1G/the-evolution-of-an-accidental-meme-ddc4e139e0e4#.yfpein8dk
- “Massacres de masse, violence, terrorisme et quelques antécédents américains” https://theconversation.com/massacres-de-masse-violence-terrorisme-et-quelques-antecedents-americains-63070 ht @ monolecte
- “A Matching Algorithm to Alleviate the Refugee Crisis” https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/op-eds/2016/08/05/an-algorithm-to-alleviate-the-refugee-crisis ht @ cdb_77
- “La France compte cinq fois plus de chômeurs partiels qu’avant la crise de 2008” http://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/0211177568321-la-france-compte-cinq-fois-plus-de-chomeurs-partiels-quavant-la-crise-de-2008-2018346.php
- “I’m a serious academic, we should not have to parade ourselves on social media to (…) be considered enthusiastic” https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/aug/05/im-a-serious-academic-not-a-professional-instagrammer
- “A black woman called 911 because she was afraid of a police officer” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/05/social-worker-calls-911-because-shes-afraid-of-a-police-officer-he-then-violently-arrests-her/?utm_term=.ba8b547c66c3 (unfortunately, not a very good idea)
- “Remonter le Temps” https://remonterletemps.ign.fr/map/basic?x=-1.677990&y=48.114165&z=15&layer1=GEOGRAPHICALGRIDSYSTEMS.ETATMAJOR40&layer2=GEOGRAPHICALGRIDSYSTEMS.MAPS&mode=vSlider Rennes, 1820-1866 vs. actuel
- via @ seanlahman : Mixed marriages: How many people marry someone from a different political party? http://53eig.ht/295DbZq NA
- RT @ AcademicsSay : I’m not procrastinating. I’m facilitating the democratized disruption of hegemonic academic narratives via social media.…
- “What makes a mass murderer different to a terrorist?” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/04/terror-and-rage-what-makes-a-mass-murderer-different-to-a-terrorist
- “Donald Trump’s love affair with polls is definitely over” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/paloma/the-daily-trail/2016/08/04/the-daily-trail-donald-trump-s-love-affair-with-polls-is-definitely-over/57a3cf3dcd249a7e29d0cf79/
- “Une ville ne se dévoile pas au premier venu il faut savoir la conquérir pour qu’elle se laisse doucement découvrir” http://blog.courrierinternational.com/entre-montagnes-et-mers/2016/08/04/les-faces-cachees-de-hong-kong/
- on the “Origins and Globalization of Traffic Control Signals” in the U.S. http://sites.tufts.edu/carscultureplace2010/files/2010/09/McShane-traffic-signals-1999.pdf ht @ jrmdns
- “Is an algorithm any less racist than a human?” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/03/algorithm-racist-human-employers-work
- “Qu’est-ce que le bien commun ?” http://la-bas.org/la-bas-magazine/textes-a-l-appui/noam-chomsky-qu-est-ce-que-le-bien-commun (un nouvel essai de Noam Chomsky)
- “Chain Reaction: How Blockchain Technology Might Transform Wholesale Insurance” http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/financial-services/pdf/how-blockchain-tecnology-might-transform-insurance.pdf
- “Those who deny the housing crisis can no longer conceal their idiocy” https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/aug/05/those-who-deny-the-housing-crisis-can-no-longer-conceal-their-idiocy-resolution-foundation?CMP=twt_gu interesting article on the housing crisis
- “Vaccines are not associated with autism” (using meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies) https://autismoevaccini.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/vaccines-are-not-associated-with-autism.pdf ht @ AndrewHires
- “Using machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields” http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/4/12369494/descartes-artificial-intelligence-crop-predictions-usda
- “Why Democracy Requires Trusted Experts” https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-democracy-requires-experts-by-jean-pisani-ferry-2016-08 by @ pisaniferry
- “Professorial salaries and research performance” http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gep/documents/papers/2016/2016-13.pdf via http://voxeu.org/article/professorial-salaries-and-research-performance
- “Political leanings of American professors” https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2016/07/29/political-leanings-of-american-professors-robhosking/
- “Is Prediabetes An Epidemic Or A Creation Of Drug Companies?” http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2016/08/04/is-prediabetes-an-epidemic-or-a-creation-of-drug-companies/#716fd0e91891
- “Americans Weigh 15 Lb. More Than They Used To (but they aren’t getting taller)” http://time.com/4435152/obesity-overweight-height-americans/
- “Ages by sport & gender in the olympics” https://statsinthewild.com/2012/07/09/olympics-boxplot/ ht @ StatsbyLopez
- “Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children” http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1508749 via http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/health/dust-asthma-children.html
- “Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know?” http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/19/whos-the-first-person-in-history-whose-name-we-know/ (spoiler: it’s Kushim, and he was not a king)
- “Making Games with Python & Pygame” https://inventwithpython.com/makinggames.pdf
- “Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” https://inventwithpython.com/inventwithpython_3rd.pdf
- “Teach your Kids to Code” http://file.allitebooks.com/20150810/Teach%20Your%20Kids%20to%20Code.pdf
- “Python for Kids” http://raspbian.serveblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/python_for_kids.pdf
- “How One Journalist Uses Social Media to Get Inside the Minds of ISIS” http://www.wired.com/2016/08/rukmini-callimachi-new-york-times-isis/ ht @ goulu
- “The court system remains a system that was designed by lawyers with the expectation that there would be lawyers” http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/05/11/3777026/civil-courts-poor-people/
- ” There’s no way to hire professors in computer science and expect them to stay put for three or four decades” https://theconversation.com/its-not-corporate-poaching-its-a-free-market-for-brilliant-people-61846
- “Many pediatric clinical trials go unpublished or unfinished” https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/08/04/pediatrics-clinical-trials-data/ ht @ pash22
- “Information Networks: Evidence from Illegal Insider Trading Tips” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2511068 see also @ tylercowen’s http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-04/insider-trading-isn-t-what-you-see-in-the-movies
- “We depend on numbers to make sense of the world, and have done so ever since we started to count.” https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/08/every-number-tells-a-story/
- “There has never been a painter quite like Jheronimus van Aken” http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/mystery-of-hieronymus-bosch/
- Slave population of the U.S., 1861 https://i.reddituploads.com/de98ad8fb2e34eef935fbe0a9899a2
- “Vers un état d’exception permanent” http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/01/GANDINI/54469
- “A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality” http://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-to-statistics-on-historical-trends-in-income-inequality ht @ rekacewicz
- “Fail-Safe Nuclear Power” https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-power/ ht @ recifs
- “La leçon de Pokémon Go au secteur de la e-santé” http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/cercle/cercle-159383-pokemon-go-marque-un-tournant-dans-la-e-sante-et-la-prevention-medicale-2018314.php
- “Universities are tracking their students. Is it clever or creepy?” https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/aug/03/learning-analytics-universities-data-track-students?CMP=twt_gu
- An expert appreciation of “the first modern sci-fi movie”, Stanley Kubrick’s “audacious epic” 2001 http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/2013/space_odyssey
- répartition des notes, au bac, par @ coulmont
- En Belgique, “les maths sont le cauchemar des jeunes francophones” http://www.lecho.be/economie_politique/belgique_general/Pourquoi_les_maths_sont_le_cauchemar_des_jeunes_francophones.9794661-4003.art
- “How Liberalism in America Became Synonymous with its Antithesis” https://uneasymoney.com/2016/07/31/how-liberalism-in-america-became-synonymous-with-its-antithesis/
- “Make Algorithms Accountable” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/opinion/make-algorithms-accountable.html
- “The Case for More Government and Higher Taxes” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/business/economy/rethinking-the-role-of-government-in-society.html
- “Social media have not destroyed the public meeting. They have done the opposite” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/new-big-thing-politics-old-style-public-meeting-labour-battleground-live-events
- The ‘luxury effect’, in which wealthier neighbourhoods are more biologically diverse, has been observed in nature” http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/8/20160322?cpetoc
- “Les villes prennent le pouvoir: Les mégalopoles, nouveaux moteurs de l’économie mondiale” http://www.courrierinternational.com/grand-format/cartographie-les-villes-prennent-le-pouvoir
- via @ NateSilver538 new economic data will affect our polls-plus model, just as new polls can http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#plus
- “Why fighting climate change won’t destroy the economy” http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/environment/2016/04/13/why-fighting-climate-change-wont-destroy-economy/81928138/
- “The precautionary principle alone would tell us that we do not want to learn what costs climate change will incur” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/the-sticky-truth-about-economic-growth-and-climate-change/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_ENGYSUS_BLOG
- Et encore des records, http://information.tv5monde.com/en-continu/temperatures-gaz-effet-de-serre-et-montee-des-eaux-des-niveaux-records-en-2015-121111
- College Ranking https://data-slinky.shinyapps.io/BumpCharts/ (with R-Shinny, see https://github.com/data-slinky/college_rankings )
- (avec beaucoup de retard) http://culturevisuelle.org/viesociale/3760 “Illustration non contractuelle”
- “Manipulation of the news for propaganda purposes is not the prerogative of the west’s enemies” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/02/russian-propaganda-western-media-manipulation
- “Drivers still liable in accidents, even in near driverless cars” (in Canada) http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/insurance/drivers-still-liable-accidents-even-near-driverless-cars-says-law-firm-1004097572/
- “Words”, by Christoph Niemann http://www.itsnicethat.com/news/christoph-niemann-words-book-020816
- “The Drugs Won: The Case for Ending the Sports War on Doping” https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/the-drugs-won-the-case-for-ending-the-sports-war-on-doping
- “Skype is “acceptable for mixed communication when you’re about to get married”” http://static1.squarespace.com/static/534bf494e4b06a4afe162e21/t/579916cae3df28ec6e335d53/1469650703805/StudioD-VoiceofSaudiYouth-EthnoShare.pdf A Deep Dive into Saudi Culture
- “Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominee” https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/760535450226491393
- just because it’s alwys good to keep that in mind (ht @ abunchofdata ) see http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/elections/nine-percent-of-america-selected-trump-and-clinton.html
- “25 years of arXiv” http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v12/n8/full/nphys3862
- “Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysisDraft” http://randomwalker.info/publications/OpenWPM_1_million_site_tracking_measurement.pdf via https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/02/battery-status-indicators-tracking-online
- “Vienna’s ’wild settlers’ kickstart a social housing revolution” https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/08/story-cities-18-vienna-austria-cooperative-self-build-settlers-social-housing-revolution ht @ rekacewicz
- “The Cost of Being Obese” (via http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/why-rich-women-dont-get-fat/358643/ )
- “Why Can’t Hillary Clinton Stop Lying?” http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/why-hillary-clinton-keeps-lying/493841
- “Obama to Leave the White House a Nerdier Place Than He Found It” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/politics/obama-to-leave-the-white-house-a-nerdier-place-than-he-found-it.html?smid=tw-share ht @ pash22
- “I’m afraid my crippling shyness will ruin my career” https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/jul/29/im-afraid-my-crippling-shyness-will-ruin-my-career?CMP=share_btn_tw good thing, a lot of us feel that way in academia
- “Colocs en stock, traduction infidèle” http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/livres/272037/traduction-infidele (je découvre Tintin en québécois)
- “Why You Should Care about High-Dimensional Sphere Packing” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/why-you-should-care-about-high-dimensional-sphere-packing/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MATH_BLOG following http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/multidimensional-sphere-packing-solutions-stack-up-as-a-major-mathematical-breakthrough/ by @ evelynjlamb
- “A blockchain is just a parliament without a parliamentarian” http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6581.html another great post by @ interfluidity
- “Amid declining book sales, university presses search for new ways to measure success” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/01/amid-declining-book-sales-university-presses-search-new-ways-measure-success
- “The global impact of air conditioning: big and getting bigger” https://theconversation.com/the-global-impact-of-air-conditioning-big-and-getting-bigger-62882
- “Contribution of air conditioning adoption to future energy use under global warming” http://www.pnas.org/content/112/19/5962.abstract
- on the complex relationships we have with the things we collect, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/24/arts/design/the-keeper-collectors-reader-submissions.html?_r=0 ht @ tylercowen
- “Is It Just Me, Or Is the World Going Crazy?” https://markmanson.net/crazy-world on the attention economy, and cameras
- Parenting and Game Theory http://smbc-comics.com/comic/parenting-game-theory
- “Politicians Need to Understand This Computer Science Concept Better” http://nautil.us/blog/politicians-need-to-understand-this-computer-science-concept-better
- “Everything Is Broken” https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1 “It’s hard to explain to regular people how much technology barely works”
- “Love in Translation: Learning about culture, communication, and intimacy in my husband’s native French” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/08/lauren-collins-learns-to-love-in-french
It was a bit long… but that’s probably because I read a lot while I’m on holidays…..
Le documentaire “Musulmans de France” est très bien ; mais il y a un problème sur le second fichier, dont la fin est celle du premier épisode… !
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C’est malin, je viens d’ouvrir 53 onglets… 🙂
désolé, je me rends compte que la version mensuelle est un peu foireuse… bon, cela dit, août était un peu particulier je pense…. trop de temps à lire en ligne !