A (nonexhaustive) list of writings worth reading, discovered in September.
- How we classify animals http://inference-review.com/article/on-being-a-fish
- “How Does The Electoral College Work?” http://www.newstatesman.com/world/2016/09/clinton-vs-trump-how-does-electoral-college-work
- allez, un peu de lecture sur les publications académiques http://www.couperin.org/261-couperin/nos-activites/groupes-de-travail-et-projets-deap/a-la-une/1277-loi-pour-une-republique-numerique-definitivement-votee
- “Je viens d’appendre que je suis autiste…” http://urbania.ca/233842/viens-dapprendre-suis-autiste/
- Série de billets “Brexit” ce mois-ci http://variances.eu/?p=251 http://variances.eu/?p=295 http://variances.eu/?p=1192 sur http://variances.eu (à suivre)
- “Overfulfilling the Norm: The Better-Than-Average Effect in Judgments of Attitudes” http://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1864-9335/a000280
- “Winning the lottery makes you more likely to vote for incumbent politicians” http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/688178 via @ cblatts
- “Understanding the maths is crucial for protecting privacy” https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/understanding-the-maths-is-crucial-for-protecting-privacy
- “Understanding and Misunderstanding Randomized Controlled Trials” http://www.nber.org/papers/w22595
- “Vers un racisme (vraiment) français ?” https://seenthis.net/messages/528096 via http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/09/26/vers-un-racisme-vraiment-francais_5003205_3232.html (paywall)
- “A woman entering the job market can expect to do an average of 4 years more work than male peers over her lifetime” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/22/women-do-four-years-more-work-than-men-in-lifetime-report-shows
- Just Fixing Problems http://xkcd.com/1739/
- “Analyzing 205 718 Verified Twitter Users” https://medium.com/startup-grind/analyzing-205-718-verified-twitter-users-cf0811781ac8
- “Humans: Unusually Murderous Mammals, Typically Murderous Primates” http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/humans-are-unusually-violent-mammals-but-averagely-violent-primates/501935/ see… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781201929837740032
- “What Facebook Knows About You” https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-what-facebook-knows-about-you
- “Le journaliste l’ignore, mais les mots ont un sens” https://www.slate.fr/story/123555/critique-journalisme
- “When world leaders thought you shouldn’t need passports or visas” https://theconversation.com/when-world-leaders-thought-you-shouldnt-need-passports-or-visas-64847
- “The Fundamental Limits of Machine Learning” http://nautil.us/blog/the-fundamental-limits-of-machine-learning
- “Apolitical Reasons to Hate Politics” http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2016/09/apolitical_reas.htmlvia @ tylercowen
- “Il est urgent de sortir de l’obsession du comptage pour parler de science différemment” https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/billets/ces-articles-aux-mille-et-une-signatures
- “Is This Why Deutsche Bank Is Crashing (Again)?” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-20/why-deutsche-bank-crashing-again
- “Il y a peu d’éléments nouveaux dans le débat (…) qui s’ouvre à la suite du papier de Romer” http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/09/26/la-theorie-economique-dominante-trente-ans-de-malheur_1511254 par Bruno Amable
- understanding MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) https://nicercode.github.io/guides/mcmc/ via @ gcosma1
- “d’élève moyen dans les années 2000, l’école française est devenue la plus inégalitaire de l’OCDE” http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2016/09/27/comment-le-systeme-francais-aggrave-ineluctablement-les-inegalites-scolaires_5003800_4401467.html
- “Les écritures ordinaires de la recherche” https://sms.hypotheses.org/1502 ht @ lgayme chez @ MondesSociaux
- “Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is a philosophical dialetheia” https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-duchamp-s-fountain-be-both-art-and-not-art art and non-art at the same time (Schrödinger’s urinal)
- “We don’t have an archetype — fictional or otherwise — through which to understand Hillary Clinton” http://boingboing.net/2016/09/15/to-find-hillary-clinton-likabl.html
- “The Epic Collapse of Deutsche Bank” http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-epic-collapse-deutsche-bank/ (back in July 2016)
- When 62 000 people click wherever they want http://boltkey.cz/multiclick_analysis/
- “Why red-dominated autumn leaves in America and yellow-dominated autumn leaves in Northern Europe?” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02904.x/full
- “Facial attractiveness of the opposite sex gives rise to discrepancies in males’anticipation and demand” http://sci-hub.bz/10.1002/ijop.12393
- “Companies That Discriminate Fail (Eventually)” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-23/companies-that-discriminate-fail-eventually by @ Noahpinion
- “Les villes de la science dans le monde” http://mappemonde.mgm.fr/num44/articles/art14401.html ht @ carnetsDM (oui, la carte date un peu)
- “The Deadly Business Of War-Zone Medical Care” http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/doctors-without-borders-has-a-difficult-year-in-war-zones-a-1112009-druck.html
- “The Depression Was Great For The American Kitchen” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-23/the-depression-was-great-for-the-american-kitchen
- “Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not related” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191491X16300323
- “Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job” http://boingboing.net/2016/09/08/blackballed-by-machine-learnin.html via @ recifs
- “How cooperative behaviour could make artificial intelligence more human” https://theconversation.com/how-cooperative-behaviour-could-make-artificial-intelligence-more-human-64177
- “What’s the point of maths research? It’s the abstract nonsense behind tomorrow’s breakthroughs” https://theconversation.com/whats-the-point-of-maths-research-its-the-abstract-nonsense-behind-tomorrows-breakthroughs-64141
- “Against happiness: Companies that try to turn happiness into a management tool are overstepping the mark” http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21707502-companies-try-turn-happiness-management-tool-are-overstepping-mark?frsc=dg%7Ca
- “Theorizing about Ancient Economies” https://medium.com/@MarkKoyama/theorizing-about-ancient-economies-6ef0c953809e#.o2rb2iegc by @ MarkKoyama
- great story http://www.racked.com/2016/9/19/12865560/politics-of-pockets-suffragettes-women “The history of pockets isn’t just sexist, it’s political”
- “What You See Is What You Get?” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-we-see/
- We need to examine why it is taken for granted that teaching work is less valued and less prestigious than research http://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/changing-value-of-teaching-in-universities/
- “The natural selection of bad science” http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/9/160384
- “Everybody Thinks They’re Middle-Class” https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-america-divided/middle-class/
- Incentive malus http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21707513-poor-scientific-methods-may-be-hereditary-incentive-malus stop rewarding researchers who publish copiously over those who publish fewer, higher-quality papers
- “Money isn’t enough. Medical research needs a cultural revolution” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/medical-research-money-zuckerberg-chan-foundation
- “Jean-Claude Dusse du contre-terrorisme” http://aboudjaffar.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/09/24/jean-claude-dusse-du-contre-terrorisme/
- “La résistance aux antibiotiques est une « menace fondamentale », avertit l’ONU” http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2016/09/21/l-onu-mobilise-sur-la-menace-fondamentale-que-represente-la-resistance-aux-antibiotiques_5001511_3244.html
- “Informing the public about science can become nearly indistinguishable from efforts to promote it” http://nautil.us/blog/the-problem-with-science-writing
- “Chronique de la folie policière ordinaire” https://blogs.mediapart.fr/christian-salmon/blog/230916/chronique-de-la-folie-policiere-ordinaire
- “Is science only for the rich?” http://www.nature.com/news/is-science-only-for-the-rich-1.20650 “poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers”
- “Many people believe that grocery stores keep their milk in the back corner of the store for a nefarious reason” https://medium.com/@russroberts/why-is-milk-in-the-back-of-the-store-1fda04c7c55c#.yx0psaih0
- “Are Firms That Discriminate More Likely to Go Outof Business?” https://www.sociologicalscience.com/download/vol-3/september/SocSci_v3_849to859.pdf
- “The Rise of the Trump Academic” https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-trump-academic.html
- “Is science only for the rich?” http://www.nature.com/news/is-science-only-for-the-rich-1.20650 “poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers”
- “Many people believe that grocery stores keep their milk in the back corner of the store for a nefarious reason” https://medium.com/@russroberts/why-is-milk-in-the-back-of-the-store-1fda04c7c55c#.yx0psaih0
- “‘Shanty Mega-structures’ rise above a future Lagos” https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/14/the-big-picture-olalekan-jeyifous-shanty-mega-structures/
- sympathy cards, ht @ MartheHR
- “How a remote archipelago in Hudson Bay is using digital cartography to put itself on the map” https://thewalrus.ca/where-the-streets-have-no-names/
- “Trois mille ans d’informatique” https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/trois-mille-ans-dinformatique
- Statistical Errors
- “Les enfants « dyspraxiques », poissons-pilotes du numérique ?” http://www.actualitice.fr/les-enfants-dyspraxiques-poissons-pilotes-du-numerique
- “We bought into Silicon Valley’s utopian view of digital technology, and now we are paying for our gullibility” https://aeon.co/essays/the-internet-as-an-engine-of-liberation-is-an-innocent-fraud
- “Un demi-siècle d’espérance de vie pour trois pays africains” http://visionscarto.net/un-demi-siecle-d-esperance-de-vie par @ rekacewicz
- On the orthography of heteros*edasticity http://www.rwi-essen.de/media/content/pages/publikationen/ruhr-economic-papers/REP_11_300.pdf
- “Specification Searches: AdHoc Inference with Non Experimental Data” http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/edward.leamer/books/specification_searches/SpecificationSearches.pdf
- “Why science and engineering need to remind students of forgotten lessons from history” https://theconversation.com/why-science-and-engineering-need-to-remind-students-of-forgotten-lessons-from-history-61356
- “Are Randomized Controlled Trials the (G)old Standard? From Clinical Intelligence to Prescriptive Analytics” http://www.jmir.org/2016/7/e185/
- “On the analogy between field experiments in economics and clinical trials in medicine” http://sci-hub.bz/10.1080/1350178x.2016.1157202
- “Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics” http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.24.2.3
- “Are Randomised Controlled Trials the Gold Standard?” http://www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/research/concludedResearchProjects/ContingencyDissentInScience/DP/Cartwright.pdf
- “Randomised Controlled Trials are referred to as the “gold standard” of empirical econometric research” http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/gold_standard_that_was_abandoned_you_know
- “Socio-economic inequality in science is on the rise” http://www.nature.com/news/socio-economic-inequality-in-science-is-on-the-rise-1.20654
- “To leave a child alone, even for a few minutes, is treated as grounds for a child-abuse investigation” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-12/don-t-leave-your-kids-near-judgmental-strangers
- “La science économique en crise doit imiter la médecine”
https://beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/la-science-economique-en-crise-doit-imiter-la-medecine-reflexions-sur-cahuc-zylberberg-et-romer/ par @ Undercoverhist , passionnant - “Cut-throat academia leads to ‘natural selection of bad science’, claims study” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/cut-throat-academia-leads-to-natural-selection-of-bad-science-claims-study?CMP=share_btn_tw
- “Even with best intentions, whether peer review identifies high-quality science is unknown” http://www.nature.com/news/let-s-make-peer-review-scientific-1.20194?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
- Efficient R programming (online book) https://csgillespie.github.io/efficientR/ via @ KirkDBorne
- “c’est l’enfeR” http://bioinfo-fr.net/cest-lenfer (voir aussi http://www.burns-stat.com/documents/books/the-r-inferno/ ) par @ g_devailly
- (surprisingly) “Statistical Evidence Suggests Russia’s Ruling Party Cheated Its Way to Supermajority”… https://themoscowtimes.com/news/statistical-evidence-suggests-russias-ruling-party-cheated-its-way-to-a-supermajority-55396
- “Nasa: des mathématiciennes noires au cœur de la conquête spatiale américaine” http://information.tv5monde.com/terriennes/nasa-des-mathematiciennes-noires-au-coeur-de-la-conquete-spatiale-americaine-129110 voir aussi http://observer.com/2016/09/meet-the-black-female-mathematicians-who-helped-nasa-win-the-space-race/
- “Even Good Bots Fight” http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04285 via https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602421/the-growing-problem-of-bots-that-fight-online/
- “The Science of Boredom” http://www.livescience.com/56162-science-of-boredom.html
- “Crise de la dette étudiante, la grosse bulle qui monte aux Etats-Unis” http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/09/18/crise-de-la-dette-etudiante-la-grosse-bulle-qui-monte-aux-etats-unis_1501967
- “America’s Pacific pivot is sinking” https://www.ft.com/content/12473188-7db4-11e6-8e50-8ec15fb462f4 , see also http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-to-the-us-hey-mind-your-own-business-in-the-south-china-sea-2016-3
- “How has rape become such a common trope of television drama?” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/how-has-rape-become-such-a-common-trope-of-television-drama/article31931181/
- “Have big banks gotten safer?” https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/have-big-banks-gotten-safer/ see also https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers/fallacies-irrelevant-facts-myths-discussion-capital-regulation-why
- “Real Risks in Big Banks’ ‘Merchant Banking’ Activities” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/business/dealbook/real-risks-in-big-banks-merchant-banking-activities.html
- in the U.S., “the wage gap between blacks and whites is the worst it’s been in nearly four decades” http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/20/news/economy/black-white-wage-gap/index.html?sr=twCNN092016black-white-wage-gap1109AMVODtopLink&linkId=28986262
- Les étudiants sont comme des crocodiles, impassibles, donnant l’impression de ne pas suivre, et puis, d’un coup http://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/entretiens/pedagogie-comment-enseigner-a-des-etudiants-crocodiles.html clac
- “Most systematic reviews and meta-analysis are wrong, misleading or conflicted” http://qz.com/784615/the-man-who-made-scientists-question-themselves-has-just-exposed-huge-flaws-in-evidence-used-to-give-drug-prescriptions/
- “How universities boost economic growth” https://theconversation.com/how-universities-boost-economic-growth-65017
- “Academics are unhappy – it’s time to transform our troubled university system” https://theconversation.com/academics-are-unhappy-its-time-to-transform-our-troubled-university-system-62682
- “Welfare support across the U.S. and Scandinavian samples can be substantially and statistically indistinguishable” http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/62626887/Crowding_Out_Culture_Aar_e_Petersen.pdf
- “Dignity and Sadness in the Working Class” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/opinion/dignity-and-sadness-in-the-working-class.html
- “The Building Blocks Of Japanese Cuisine” http://luckypeach.com/guides/building-blocks-japanese-cuisine/
- “Facebook Algorithmic Factory (3) : Quantified Lives on Discount” https://labs.rs/en/quantified-lives/, “Facebook Algorithmic Factory (2) : Human Data Banks and Algorithmic Labour” https://labs.rs/en/facebook-algorithmic-factory-human-data-banks-and-algorithmic-labour/ and “Facebook Algorithmic Factory (1) : Immaterial Labour and Data Harvesting” https://labs.rs/en/facebook-algorithmic-factory-immaterial-labour-and-data-harvesting/
- “A visual history of women’s tennis” https://ig.ft.com/sites/visual-history-of-womens-tennis/ ht @ recifs
- “Le nirvana des économistes” http://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/le-nirvana-des-economistes_fr_art_1446_76781.html
- Les assureurs et les données individuelles, http://www.louisbachelier.org/actualites/interview-arthur-charpentier-prevention-probablement-seul-levier-lequel-assureurs-peuvent-utiliser-donnees-personnelles/
- “AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated” https://www.wired.com/2016/09/machine-learning-can-identify-pixelated-faces-researchers-show/?mbid=social_fb
- “When Humanitarianism Became Imperialism” https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/when-humanitarianism-became-imperialism ht @ cdb_77
- via @ NinjaEconomics : Price of insulin sold by two different companies (there are two lines here)
- “Europeans are not used to seeing a Black man in a position of power.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/57dc0359e4b053b1ccf2986d ht @ tylercowen
- Looks like Deutsche Bank has got serious issues http://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/255695/deutsche-bank-doj-fine-investment-bank/ (according to J.P. Morgan this time)
- “Les autistes, otages de petits intérêts et de grosses embrouilles” https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/180916/les-autistes-otages-de-petits-interets-et-de-grosses-embrouilles?onglet=full
- Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968) http://flashbak.com/why-charles-m-schulz-gave-peanuts-a-black-character-1968-47081 ht @ rekacewicz
- All terrorism events between 1970-2016 https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/533ieu/higres_world_map_of_all_terrorism_events_between/?st=it7rslg7&sh=98cf20d7
- Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice trends since the late 1970s http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425716302218
- “If you’re on the road in the United Kingdom, it might be time to put away the phone” http://mashable.com/2016/09/17/texting-while-driving-uk-fines/#2sAhUaHrkmq0
- “A Timeline of Big Data Analytics” https://ctovision.com/timeline-big-data-analytics/
- “Les géants de l’Internet s’intéressent surtout aux services financiers pour collecter des données clients” http://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/banque-assurances/0211279934201-gafa-le-danger-se-precise-pour-les-banquiers-et-les-assureurs-traditionnels-2026728.php#xtor=CS1-33
- “When You Cannot Generalize” https://medium.com/@nntaleb/where-you-cannot-generalize-from-knowledge-of-parts-continuation-to-the-minority-rule-ce96ca3c5739#.2levcy6uf
- “The Origin of Populist Surges Everywhere” https://medium.com/@auerswald/the-origin-of-populist-surges-everywhere-1146f89e04bb?swoff=true
- “The Difference Between Rationality and Intelligence” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/the-difference-between-rationality-and-intelligence.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0
- “La propagande des algorithmes ? Vraiment ?” http://internetactu.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/09/17/la-propagande-des-algorithmes-vraiment/
- “La grande désillusion de la recherche” http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/science-et-technologie/480207/recherche-la-grande-desillusion
- “Petites réflexions sur la neutralité du chercheur” http://blogs.univ-poitiers.fr/o-bouba-olga/2016/09/17/petites-reflexions-sur-la-neutralite-du-chercheur-ou-la-nouvelle-erreur-de-cahuc-et-zylberberg/ par @ obouba
- “Statistics for Hackers” https://youtu.be/L5GVOFAYi8k by @ jakevdp
- “To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of a sick black man in their custody” https://hdp.press/to-the-4-white-male-policemen-who-beat-me-for-checking-the-health-of-a-sick-black-man-in-their-8d77789fb24d#.4h5jux26c ht @ cblatts
- “Donald Trump n’est pas le représentant d’une idéologie, mais plutôt celui d’un monde revenu de toutes les idées” http://www.ledevoir.com/international/etats-unis/480166/pourquoi-trump-n-est-pas-fasciste
- “Why So Many Poor Americans Don’t Get Help Paying For Housing” http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-so-many-poor-americans-dont-get-help-paying-for-housing/
- Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot by Playing Grand Theft Auto https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602317/self-driving-cars-can-learn-a-lot-by-playing-grand-theft-auto/ (should warn my students that it won’t work for them)
- “Income and earnings inequality in Great Britain: the Gini coefficient, 1978 to 2009” http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/economics-for-everyone/for-a-wider-audience/do-you-know/1-figure/income-and-earnings-inequality-in-great-britain-the-gini-coefficient-1978-to-2009
- Incohérences (?), par @ XavierGorce http://xaviergorce.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/09/16/incoherences/
- Le recours déposé contre l’accord entre Microsoft et l’Education Nationale rejeté par le tribunal de grande instance http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2016/09/08/microsoft-leducation-nationale-mecenat-marche-public-dissimule-265104
- Tragedies
- “Sinusite et risque de cancer : l’art de détourner une étude sérieuse” http://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/decouverte-scientifique/sinusite-et-risque-de-cancer-l-art-de-detourner-une-etude-serieuse_1823577.html ht @ Monolecte
- “A l’heure où les Américains se convertissent aux charmes de la vitesse, la France semble prendre le chemin inverse” http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/09/14/des-tgv-aux-cars-macron_4997524_3234.html
- Deutsche Bank Is Asked to Pay $14bn to Resolve U.S. Probe Into Mortgage Securities http://www.wsj.com/articles/deutsche-bank-is-asked-to-pay-14-billion-to-resolve-u-s-probe-into-mortgage-securities-1473975404
- “Le sommeil est un truc de losers” https://www.letemps.ch/societe/2016/09/13/un-monde-neoliberal-sommeil-un-truc-losers ht @ monde_libre
- “Sitting Alone in the Cafeteria” http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/09/when-kids-sit-alone/498587/ see also http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2016/09/sitting-alone/500102/
- “When Did Charts Become Popular?” https://priceonomics.com/when-did-charts-become-popular/
- “How the Presidential Forecasts Have Changed ” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/upshot/as-clinton-trump-race-tightens-heres-how-forecast-models-differ.html?_r=0
- “The Babel paradox” https://deltanomics.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/the-babel-paradox/
- Présenter l’économie et la data à des codeurs, le défi du Breizh Camp 2016, https://youtu.be/kmzPt9Z_AD4?t=13m9s
- Lire la chronique de @ econoclaste me donnerait presque envie de lire le pavé (dans la gueule) http://econoclaste.org.free.fr/econoclaste/?page_id=10370&codenote=227
- “How to Tell If You’re a Jerk” http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-jerk
- “Les patients, ces experts” http://www.lemonde.fr/festival/article/2016/09/12/les-patients-ces-experts_4996552_4415198.html
- “Why Does Methodology Matter for Economics?” http://public.econ.duke.edu/~kdh9/Source%20Materials/Research/WhyMethodologyMatters.pdf
- “Economic Methodology in a Nutshell” http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ctahr/aheed/Carl/supplementary%20readings/Hausman_1989_Economic_Methodology_in_a_Nutshell.pdf
- “How Do You Know if Dice Are Really Fair?” http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a22856/dice-mathematically-fair/?src=socialflowTW
- “The prominent critique of screens as alienating is less about screens than about who counts as fully human” http://reallifemag.com/face-to-interface/
- Art can’t stop famine in sub-Saharan Africa or cure Zika. But art does change the world incrementally and by osmosis http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/tyranny-of-art-history-in-contemporary-art.html
- “Worldwide Many See Belief in God As Essential to Morality: Richer Nations Are Exception“ http://www.thecritique.com/articles/africa-the-problem-of-evil/
- “A brilliant American scientist formulates the evolutionary basis of altruism — then puts it to the test” http://mosaicscience.com/story/George-Price-altruism-equation
- “Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet” https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html
- “Police forces are stockpiling massive databases with personal information” https://data.postandcourier.com/saga/watched/page/1
- How do you pronunce “Dirichlet” ? according to http://pronouncemath.blogspot.fr/2013/03/johann-dirichlet-pronunciation.html [diʀiˈkleː] but when you look at the origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gustav_Lejeune_Dirichlet … but he’s coming from a city in Belgium named “Richelette” so it should have been [diʀiʃlɛt]
- I knew it! http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/09/daily-chart-7?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fbeerandbiblesdontmix&%3Ffsrc%3Dscn%2F=tw%2Fdc “Beer and bibles don’t mix”
- “Pour comprendre la France, j’ajoute des cons sur Facebook” http://www.vice.com/fr/read/j-ajoute-des-cons-sur-facebook-909?utm_source=vicefrtw (Sociology 101, où avant ça peut être)
- “I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/lionel-shrivers-full-speech-i-hope-the-concept-of-cultural-appropriation-is-a-passing-fad
- “Top-down models predict what we’re going to see, bottom-up models perceive the real world” http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-up/ Bayes, all the way up
- L’inscription à l’université… ht @ FabienBP
- “Le Gabon, un pays en danger de mort” http://www.marianne.net/agora-gabon-pays-danger-mort-100245721.html ht @ monde_libre
- waouh, this will save me hours… http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html draw a symbol, and get the latex name for it
- the shrinking Aral Sea http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84437 , with a stricking picture via @ rekacewicz (Switzerland for scale)
- Visualiser le tourisme dans le monde, http://visionscarto.net/tourisme-en-2011 par @ rekacewicz
- “Chinese lecturer to use facial-recognition technology to check boredom levels among his students” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/12/facial-recognition-technology-used-in-chinese-classroom-to-check/
- La blog http://variances.eu est lancé http://variances.eu/index.php/2016/09/12/variances-eu-est-lance/
- “Providing evidence to policymakers through committees is a great way for researchers to influence policy debates” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/09/07/giving-evidence-in-parliament-a-how-to-guide-for-academics/
- bientôt, quelques lois autour de l’université http://www.lesechos.fr/politique-societe/societe/0211277213464-najat-vallaud-belkacem-universites-une-loi-en-novembre-pour-un-master-reforme-a-la-rentree-2017-2026407.php
- “with data comes responsibility” http://claudiasahm.postagon.com/9xngxrgw9
- Journées Big Data https://jstar2016.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3 20-21 Octobre à l’AgroCampus, Rennes
- Plus riche, plus intéressant http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=ARSS_184_0038 “L’enracinement social de la mortalité routière” ht @ dirtydenys
- manifestement, @ GrosPascal connait mes filles
- “Les contes de la crypto” http://www.telerama.fr/medias/les-contes-de-la-crypto,147098.php
- “Des accidents de la route pas si accidentels” https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/08/GROSSETETE/56078 voir aussi il y a 10 ans https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2005/09/RENAHY/12775
- “Nobody understands why deep neural networks are so good at solving complex problems.” http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225 ht https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602344/the-extraordinary-link-between-deep-neural-networks-and-the-nature-of-the-universe/
- “Temperatures Rise, and We’re Cooked” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/temperatures-rise-and-were-cooked.html?_r=0
- “As digital applications encroach on various aspects of daily life, the impact on the economy will help us…” http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2016/09/varian.htm
- “What Actuaries Should Know About Nonparametric RegressionWith Missing Data” http://www.variancejournal.org/articlespress/articles/What-Efromovich.pdf
- “The police are being militarised – should we be worried?” https://theconversation.com/the-police-are-being-militarised-should-we-be-worried-65050
- (information like that is quite easy to compromise) https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/774341408417320960
- “If you have a security question like ‘What’s your mother’s maiden name?’ make sure it’s not actually her name” http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/hackers-messed-with-the-wrong-guy-waterloo-computer-science-student-1.3058315
- “September 11’s indirect toll: road deaths linked to fearful flyers” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/05/september-11-road-deaths “an extra 1595 Americans died in car accidents”
- et si je dis tapez “le nom de l’article que vous cherchez” sous http://sci-hub.bz/ , ça devient légal ?
- dont pointer vers un article sur http://sci-hub.bz/ serait illégal ? https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/774334393334792196
- “La diffusion de liens hypertexte menant à des contenus piratés est-elle elle-même illégale ?” http://www.numerama.com/politique/193536-liens-hypertextes-legaux-illegaux-on-resume.html
- Place name origins of Great Britain, Ireland and Northwest France https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/51ir4o/place_name_origins_of_great_britain_ireland_and/
- “The Three Most Important Words? ‘I Don’t Know'” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-09/the-three-most-important-words-i-don-t-know by @ ritholtz
- September 9th
- “Welcome to Academic Torrents!” http://academictorrents.com/
- “If you analyze data without considering causality, you open your results to the possibility of enormous biases” https://medium.com/@akelleh/a-technical-primer-on-causality-181db2575e41#.7jl15iou7
- “How Switzerland Accidentally Reduced Suicides” http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/switzerland-military-gun-suicide/499028/ see also http://sci-hub.bz/10.1521/suli.2010.40.5.421
- Les coulisses de l’open-data http://blog.alphoenix.net/2016/09/les-coulisses-de-lopen-data/
- “Sur la situation en France des personnes, enfants et adultes, atteintes d’autisme” http://www.ccne-ethique.fr/sites/default/files/publications/ccne-avisn102_autisme.pdf en 2007, effarant
- “A user is far more likely to enter a wrong and valid email address than they are to enter an invalid one.” https://hackernoon.com/the-100-correct-way-to-validate-email-addresses-7c4818f24643
- “La science économique est-elle infaillible?” Troublante cette question quand même, parce que c’est une question qu’on peut poser pour toutes les sciences, non ? http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/cercle/0211273995035-la-science-economique-est-elle-infaillible-6-economistes-repondent-2026185.php#xtor=CS1-33
- “L’intelligence artificielle va-t-elle rester impénétrable ?” http://www.internetactu.net/a-lire-ailleurs/lintelligence-artificielle-va-t-elle-rester-impenetrable/ ht @ jbbardet
- “Syria’s Paradox: Why the War Only Ever Seems to Get Worse” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/world/middleeast/syria-civil-war-why-get-worse.html
- “Pregnancy vs. Longevity” https://public.tableau.com/profile/eric.brown2263#!/vizhome/GestationPeriod5/GestationPeriod (here mammals, excl. whales)
- “What do people mention in their Tinder profiles?” http://katiehempenius.com/post/tinder-profile-analysis/
- “How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children” (like Terry Tao, or Lady Gaga) http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-super-smart-children-1.20537
- “Who were the ‘Charlie’ in the Streets? A Socio-Political Approach of January 11 Rallies” http://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/10.5334/irsp.63/
- “These travel time maps show how British cities are connected by rail” http://www.citymetric.com/transport/these-travel-time-maps-show-how-well-or-badly-british-cities-are-connected-rail-1483 ht @ rekacewicz
- “Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles” https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=EEAESEM2016&paper_id=398
- “Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths” http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/cursive-handwriting-and-other-education-myths
- via @ goulu “L’intelligence, c’est pas sorcier, il suffit de penser à une connerie et de dire l’inverse”
- Big Data & Big Brother (via @ GrosPascal )
- Le jihadisme http://aboudjaffar.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/09/07/brrrt/
- “Why Darwin would have loved evolutionary game theory” http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1838/20160847
- Neonatal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/neonatal-mortality-rate-per-1000-live-births?year=1980 , 1980 vs 2015
- “How algorithms rule our working lives” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives
- “Reading and the Demand for Books” http://www.digitopoly.org/2016/09/07/reading-and-the-demand-for-books/ via @ MarkThoma
- “Big Data Comes With the Biases of Its Creators” http://time.com/4477557/big-data-biases/
- “Scientists Are Worried About ‘Peer Review by Algorithm’” http://motherboard.vice.com/read/scientists-are-worried-about-peer-review-by-algorithm-statcheck
- Genomics papers and Excel errors http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/09/daily-chart-3
- “Generali lance l’assurance comportementale” http://www.mutualite.fr/actualites/sante-generali-lance-lassurance-comportementale/ voir aussi http://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/banque-assurances/0211262272156-sante-generali-va-recompenser-les-bons-comportements-2025263.php?P6GemRsVtAYSPHgt.99 ou http://www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/actualites/article/2016/09/06/des-bons-dachat-pour-les-patients-vertueux-comment-generali-va-coacher-ses-assures_824426
- “Former government officials as outside directors: The role of human and social capital” http://static.usnews.com/documents/nw/FormerGovernmentOfficials.pdf
- Homer Simpson and America’s middle class http://www.vox.com/2016/9/6/12752476/the-simpsons-homer-middle-class
- History And Theory Of Robot Economics https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/09/06/robot-macroeconomics-what-can-theory-and-several-centuries-of-economic-history-teach-us/
- just what I was looking for
- “I am not advocating a cashless society. But a less-cash society would be a fairer and safer place.” https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/dangers-of-paper-currency-by-kenneth-rogoff-2016-09
certains #blameitonrocard sont de réelles perles
- “Le système de recherche favorise les personnalités narcissiques” http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2016/09/05/bruno-lemaitre-le-systeme-de-recherche-favorise-les-personnalites-narcissiques_4992765_1650684.html (#paywall) voir plutôt http://doobymedia.com/read/ebook.php?id=B01DS47AN4
- I’m sure you’ve already asked yourself “why”… http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160902-why-paper-cuts-hurt-so-much?ocid=global_future_rss “Why paper cuts hurt so much”
- “Geographic density of map tile queries to openstreetmap” http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tyr_asd/diary/39434 ht @ liotier
- important (mathematical) question (even though a bit late), http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/crosswords/crossing-the-pool.html?_r=1&referer= by @ drmaths
- “Le monde change… l’université aussi !” https://theconversation.com/le-monde-change-luniversite-aussi-63551 par @ reeastes , ht @ FabienneCASSAGN @ sophie2ze
- “La France en recul dans le classement mondial QS des universités” http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2016/09/06/la-france-en-recul-dans-le-classement-mondial-qs-des-universites_4992965_4401467.html#SGQojBgQMIOYPMGs.99
- “UK universities tumble in world rankings amid Brexit concerns” https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/05/uk-universities-fall-world-rankings-brexit-concerns?CMP=share_btn_tw
- le concept de « lanceur d’alerte² » http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/08/30/un-lanceur-d-alerte-peut-en-cacher-un-autre_4989947_3232.html
- bonne résolution de la rentrée: je change de stratégie pour finir mes papiers de recherche en stand-by cet été
- “de plus en plus d’universitaires se retrouvent au tribunal pour diffamation” http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/09/05/accuse-chercheur-levez-vous_1484657
- “Only the costliest catastrophe could turn reinsurance pricing” http://www.artemis.bm/blog/2016/09/05/only-the-costliest-catastrophe-could-turn-reinsurance-pricing-rbc/
- “Thunder From The East” http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/cover-story/thunder-from-the-east
- Je cherche l’adjectif qui décrit le mieux mon état d’ahurissement (j’ai du mal) https://youtu.be/pqKA1MqPA_U via @ mtiques (la vidéo est mythique)
- et bientôt 60% d’une classe d’âge admise en master https://twitter.com/Elysee/status/771283746209271809
- pas de sélection à l’entrée de la licence, du master, dans le master.… mais pourquoi fait-on encore passer des exams
http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2016/09/05/la-justice-donne-raison-a-une-infirmiere-refusee-en-master-droit-de-la-sante_4992895_4401467.html - “Au delà de la discrimination positive” http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Au-dela-de-la-discrimination-positive.html
- “Some teenagers are opting out of the relentless pursuit of ‘likes’ on Facebook and Instagram” http://www.wsj.com/articles/teens-who-say-no-to-social-media-1472136877
- Assurance et mutualisation http://www.journaldunet.com/economie/finance/1183964-le-big-data-va-aider-les-assureurs-a-mieux-gerer-le-risque/ “à charge du régulateur de lutter contre les dérives de la personnalisation à l’extrême”
- “I don’t wanna go back to school!” ht @ MeanwhileinCana
- “Alors c’est qui les casseurs ?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1NSgeu-7_Y (bientôt la version intégrale en ligne…. à suivre donc)
- “Certified Random: A New Order for Co-Authorship” http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/debraj/Papers/RayRobsonRandom.pdf
- “Want a Free Market? Abolish Cash” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-01/want-a-free-market-abolish-cash by @ kocherlakota009
- “Should ineliminable incompetence play a bigger role in economic and political thinking?” http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2016/09/on-incompetence.html
- “Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store” http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/technology/goodbye-ivory-tower-hello-silicon-valley-candy-store.html (about http://www.people.hbs.edu/pcoles/ )
- “A pickup isn’t a pickup unless it’s big” https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-american-pickup/
- … or the False Size http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY3NjY1MjY.MTI5MTMxOTY*MjQ3NzQwODE(ODYwMjIwNg~!CL*MTMyMTQ5NTg.MjE2MDczMDU)MQ of Brazil and Chile
- The True (or Flase) Size http://thetruesize.com/ of Algeria, Groenland, Chile, Brasil
- Les jeunes autistes, oubliés par la société http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_comment-se-fait-il-qu-un-jeune-meure-seul-dans-une-tente?id=9394982
- Depuis qu’on a découvert les Brassen’s Not Dead, les enfants n’ont jamais autant réclamé (et chanté) Brassens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ3CnGZqfkk
- Et si Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook étaient des partis politiques déguisés en entreprises ? https://medium.com/@laurentcalixte/google-amazon-facebook-sont-ils-des-partis-politiques-1fabf9aa395c#.50ot3xmxo par @ laurentcalixte
- “Getting used to R, RStudio, and R Markdown” https://ismayc.github.io/rbasics-book/ ht @ DataBzh
- “A modern dive into data with R” https://ismayc.github.io/moderndiver-book/ ht @ DataBzh
- “La Sécurité sociale veut réduire les arrêts maladie pour mal de dos” http://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/0211244701816-la-securite-sociale-veut-reduire-les-arrets-maladie-pour-mal-de-dos-2023939.php
- “Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age” https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-exposed-desire-disobedience-digital-age-bernard-harcourt-harvard-university-press see also “Why Do We Expose Ourselves?” https://theintercept.com/2016/01/23/surveillance-bernard-harcourt-why-do-we-expose-ourselves/
- “Why millennials are having less sex than Generation Xers” http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/02/health/millennials-less-sex-than-gen-x/index.html see http://sci-hub.bz/10.1007/s10508-016-0798-z
- “Path of A.I. in Super Mario Kart” https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/50wejw/path_of_ai_in_super_mario_kart_mario_circuit_1_oc/ see https://github.com/guiguilegui/SuperMarioKart/tree
- “Incidence Rates, By Age, Great Britain, 1979-2013” http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/incidence/age#collapseFour
- Kevin Bryan @ Afinetheorem’s blog https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com is one of the most amazing econ blog ever
- “As time passes, knowledge increases. Why things we hold to be true might not be after all” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/04/moby-dick-and-gravity-understanding-the-truth?CMP=twt_gu
- “We Are Reading Less Literature” https://psmag.com/we-are-reading-less-literature-17066cfaeb2d#.jz7e9j4te
- “Reinhard Selten and the making of modern game theory” https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/reinhard-selten-and-the-making-of-modern-game-theory/ ht @ tylercowen
- via @ went1955 “So Very Dutch”
- “Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html
- “La laïcité répressive: Anthropologie et géopolitique de l’homo laïcus” https://www.cairn.info/revue-multitudes-2015-2-page-104.htm
- vécu http://molgh.tumblr.com/
- via @ MattAndersonBBC “Things native English speakers know, but don’t know we know”
- “Teaching economics as if the last 3 decades had happened” http://www.core-econ.org/ [free ebook] ht @ adelaigue see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35686623
- “Part de la population adulte obèse, selon le revenu mensuel net du foyer” http://inegalites.fr/spip.php?page=article&id_article=1761
- L’économie à la plage (par Jean-Yves Ferri)
- Hurricane Hermine, ht @ EricHolthaus https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/771818837612204033/video/1
- “ranger sa bibliothèque c’est sans doute nécessaire pour l’efficacité professionnelle (et pour la paix de ménages…)” https://bouillaud.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/je-range-ma-bibliotheque/ “… mais pas très bon pour la perception de sa place dans le monde actuel”
- “Le code est la (seule) loi ?” http://jeanzin.fr/2016/07/21/le-code-est-la-loi voir aussi https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/rejecting-today-s-hard-fork-the-ethereum-classic-project-continues-on-the-original-chain-here-s-why-1469038808
- “économie collaborative et économie coopérative ne sont pas synonymes” http://www.la-croix.com/Solidarite/Dans-l-economie/Affaire-Uber-economie-collaborative-et-economie-cooperative-ne-sont-pas-synonymes-2015-07-20-1336177
- waouh http://ml-games.tomasz-rewak.com/ “ML games”
- “Les aides directes bénéficient le plus aux agriculteurs les plus pollueur” https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/020916/plus-les-agriculteurs-polluent-plus-ils-touchent-d-aides-de-l-europe #paywall (si quelqu’un a l’étude…)
- “Where’s the party at? Just follow the red tags” http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2016/09/wheres-the-party-at-just-follow-the-red-tags
- “How Data Will Destroy Human Freedom” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/24/homo-deus-by-yuval-noah-harari-review see also https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/769305760786423809
- “SportVu Analysis” http://projects.rajivshah.com/blog/2016/04/02/sportvu_analysis/ see also https://github.com/rajshah4/NBA_SportVu
- “This economic theory was born in the blogosphere and could save markets from collapse” http://qz.com/73965/economics-could-the-next-big-idea-come-from-the-blogosphere/ by @ mileskimball
- L’hymne avant le match, un rituel très américain http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/etats-unis-lhymne-avant-le-match-un-rituel-tres-americain ht @ cdb_77
- “Espérance de vie scolaire” http://visionscarto.net/esperance-de-vie-scolaire billet génial de @ rekacewicz
- “people ignore security alerts up to 87% of the time” https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/19/why-people-ignore-security-alerts-up-to-87-of-the-time
- “Is urban cycling worth the risk?” https://ig.ft.com/sites/urban-cycling/ ht @ rekacewicz
- “Time Series Analysis in a Nutshell” http://www.maths.bath.ac.uk/~ak257/talks/Behme.pdf
- “The classical origin of modern mathematics” http://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0088-y?site=epjdatascience.springeropen.com ht @ arnaud_thurudev via http://www.slate.fr/story/122935/mathematiques-histoire-24-familles
- “Adoption of genetically engineered crops in the U.S, over 20 years” http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption.aspx
- Syrie, Mars 2013 et Août 2016, http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/enquete-etat-islamique-comment-tout-commence (article fascinant sur la création de l’Etat Islamique)
- We now have a better understanding about why scientists keep sending warnings about climate change. https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/771487340770496514
- “A data scientist looks at the Belgian Municipal Elections” (in 2013) http://allthingsdatascience.blogspot.be/2013/02/a-data-scientist-looks-at-belgian.html by @ IstvanHajnal
- “Obama Pays Mexico Five Billion Dollars to Keep Donald Trump” http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-pays-mexico-five-billion-dollars-to-keep-donald-trump?mbid=social_twitter
- On ballot position and effects on voting http://daily.jstor.org/ballot-position/ “In many cases, the first-listed candidate is more likely to be voted for”
- The UBS Trading Floor In 2008 And 2016 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-01/transformation-wall-street-just-two-photos-ubs-trading-floor-2008-and-2016
- “Intergenerational associations in numerical approximation and mathematical abilities” http://sci-hub.bz/10.1111/desc.12436
- “Professor turns to novel writing as his research ‘had no impact’” https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/professor-turns-novel-writing-his-research-had-no-impact I wonder if I should not, also, think of a plan B
- “Once a Bucknell Professor, Now the Commander of an Ethiopian Rebel Army” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/once-a-bucknell-professor-now-the-commander-of-an-ethiopian-rebel-army.html ht @ tylercowen
- “Quelle stratégie pour la physique ?” http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2016/08/29/quelle-strategie-pour-la-physique_4989446_1650684.html
- Parents’ math skills ‘rub off’ on their children http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-09/uop-pms090116.php intergenerational transmission of an nonverbal competence in maths
- “Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?” http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/is-artificial-intelligence-permanently-inscrutable
- “Comment l’Occident exporte ses troubles mentaux” http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2010/03/04/comment-l-occident-exporte-ses-troubles-mentaux
- “Could I ever abandon my disabled son?” http://narrative.ly/could-i-ever-abandon-my-disabled-son/
- Lost cities https://www.theguardian.com/cities/series/lost-cities e.g. Babylon https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/08/lost-cities-1-babylon-iraq-war-history-mankind-greatest-heritage-site
1. petites séries de 4 ‘sondages’, pour une expérience. On est au second tour de l’élection présidentielle, vous votez pour qui ?
- heureusement, @ joelgombin a fait des jolies fonctions pour redispatcher les individus quand les zones d’agrégation diffèrent (école/revenu)
- si l’étude est effectivement basée sur des données individuelles, ça serait bien qu’elles soient accessibles
https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/771231665167282176 - on my way to http://icabe.gr/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 , should arrive soon in Paris
- “Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: a review of the literature” https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1608/1608.08112.pdf
- reste à comprenne comment @ PikettyLeMonde a eu ses cartes, pour moi les IRIS et la carte scolaire ne coïncident pas https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/771231665167282176
- “Le gouvernement souhaite-t-il vraiment la mixité sociale ?” http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/08/31/le-gouvernement-souhaite-t-il-vraiment-la-mixite-sociale/
- Willingness to pay for shorter commute time (in NYC) http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-yorkers-will-pay-56-a-month-to-trim-a-minute-off-their-commute/
- guess what http://howmuch.net/articles/olympic-costs “Olympic Games Always Go Over Budget”
- “A Student’s Guide to the Meanings of “Equity”” https://osf.io/9vrjx/ via https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/21/a-students-guide-to-the-meanings-of-equity/?utm_term=.c9c726541933
- best dataviz’ ever http://flowingdata.com/projects/2016/alcohol-world/ “What Alcohol People Around the World Drink”
- via @ tomstafford : “university students evaluate their teachers more positively when they learn less” http://buff.ly/2bWB1M2
- “RSA vs Smic : non, on ne gagne pas autant sans travailler” http://www.liberation.fr/desintox/2016/08/31/rsa-vs-smic-non-on-ne-gagne-pas-autant-sans-travailler-comme-le-pretend-valeurs-actuelles_1475410 (voir aussi http://revenudebase.info/2013/08/29/mensonges-et-verites-aide-sociale-rsa/ )
- “Nous sommes tous des placés sous surveillance électronique en puissance” http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/08/31/nous-sommes-tous-des-places-sous-surveillance-electronique-en-puissance_1475775
- “Trajets pendant un an d’une jeune fille du XVIe arrondissement” http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/01/03/games-that-help-us-wander Paul-Henry Chombart, 1957
- “Does killing leaders of violent organizations make any difference ?” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/world/middleeast/syria-killing-terrorist-leaders.html ht @ liotier
- “Quelle place pour l’islam et les musulmans dans l’histoire de France ?” http://books.openedition.org/bibpompidou/1320 par @ EmmanuelLauren2 et @ b_stora
- Structure des dépenses de consommation des ménages, sur 50 ans, http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/series-longues.asp?indicateur=structure-conso-menages
- “Fifty years ago, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI pushed for the right to remain silent” https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/10/cops-hated-miranda-warnings-but-the-fbi-helped-create-them/
- “Jailing Old Folks Makes No Sense” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/opinion/jailing-old-folks-makes-no-sense.html
- “Big Data Is Causing a ‘Silent Financial Crisis'” http://time.com/4471451/cathy-oneil-math-destruction/?xid=tcoshare about @ mathbabedotorg’s book
- maths and parenting http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/parenting-regions
- JP Chevènement et un certain monde musulman http://filiu.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/08/30/jean-pierre-chevenement-connait-en-effet-un-certain-monde-musulman/ (celui d’Abdelaziz Bouteflika, de Saddam Hussein et de Bachar Al-Assad)
- “Open data and traffic fatalities” https://www.mapbox.com/blog/fars-2015/
- “Social security system fast becoming unfit for purpose” http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/31/uk-social-security-system-unfit-purpose-benefits-fabian-society-study (see also https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/24/poor-uk-private-rent-homelessness-risk-housing-benefit-shortfall-2020 ) by @ patrickjbutler
- political economy http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/teach-a-man-to-fish
- programming (via http://xkcd.com/1671/ )
- “Le bidonville est-il l’avenir de la ville ?” https://reporterre.net/Le-bidonville-est-il-l-avenir-de-la-ville ht @ Monolecte
- “The economics and politics of manufacturing fetishism” http://www.johnkay.com/2016/08/29/the-economics-and-politics-of-manufacturing-fetishism/
- “How Multiple Imputation Makes a Difference” http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ranjitlall/files/pa_website_version_1.pdf ht @ cblatts
- “Adam Smith on Teaching and Incentives” http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2016/08/adam-smith-on-teaching-and-incentives.html
- “La Caspienne est-elle une mer ou un lac ?” http://visionscarto.net/caspienne-mer-ou-lac par @ rekacewicz
- “Humans sparked warming nearly 200 years ago” http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=07c591e03f&e=08052803c8
- “Why We Need Quantitative Sports History” http://nautil.us/blog/why-we-need-quantitative-sports-history
- “The sneaky math that made the lottery more alluring — and harder to win” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/30/the-sneaky-math-that-made-the-lottery-more-alluring-and-harder-to-win/
- “Les noms de domaine sur Internet, le casse-tête des politiques pour 2017” http://www.telerama.fr/medias/les-noms-de-domaine-sur-internet-le-casse-tete-des-politiques-pour-2017,146594.php e.g. http://toutpourlafrance.net
- “The more experts on the board, the greater the likelihood of going out of business” https://hbr.org/2016/08/when-having-too-many-experts-on-the-board-backfires
- “The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
” http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/ ht @ NinjaEconomics - «On n’est plus chez nous !» https://blogs.mediapart.fr/j-grau/blog/290816/nest-plus-chez-nous du burikini au Entfremdung
- Russian hackers targeted some US election system https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-is-investigating-foreign-hacks-of-state-election-systems/2016/08/29/6e758ff4-6e00-11e6-8365-b19e428a975e_story.html ht @ Noahpinion
- “rather than only asking how we can use data to better target customers, how big data creates value for customers” https://hbr.org/2016/08/use-big-data-to-create-value-for-customers-not-just-target-them
- Le stress peut doper la longévité http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2016/08/29/doper-la-longevite-par-un-stress-ephemere_4989411_1650684.html (paywall, cf https://seenthis.net/messages/519815 )
- RT @ bhgreeley : A powerful argument for what sociology can explain that economics can’t http://ow.ly/geTx303Glbt @ tylercowen NA
- La prostitution infantile, en France, en 1890 http://sexes.blogs.liberation.fr/2016/08/28/la-prostitution-enfantine-du-xixe-siecle/ “Casque d’or prostituée à 14 ans pour 10 sous la passe” ht @ monolecte
- how some politicians try to reduce economic inequalities https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/770365878533750788/video/1
- allez, petit cours de stats, http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2016/08/29/le-taux-de-chomage-peut-il-s-expliquer-par-la-qualite-de-l-education_4989352_4355770.html
- “Are Index Funds Eating the World?” http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/08/26/are-index-funds-eating-the-world/
- “Low interest rates and the prospect of fees on bank deposits are helping drive a boom in home-safe sales” http://www.wsj.com/articles/german-savers-lose-faith-in-banks-stash-cash-at-home-1472485225
- Panama Papers show tax evasion by the rich and powerful to be one of the great scandals of our age http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/hidden-costs/
- “Despite higher economic growth, malnutrition levels are almost twice as high in South Asia vs. Sub-Saharan Africa” http://scroll.in/article/814886/rural-india-is-eating-less-than-it-did-40-years-ago
- “Terrorisme insurrection ou résistance: cartographier et nommer l’internationale djihadiste” http://visionscarto.net/djihadisme-international
- “Les enfants ne savent pas se servir d’un ordinateur et vous devriez vous en inquiéter.” https://nicolaslegland.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/les-enfants-ne-savent-pas-se-servir-dun-ordinateur
- “Un brillant scientifique de Rio de Janeiro assigné à résidence en France” https://lundi.am/Adlene-hicheur-ou-la-vengeance-sans-fin-de-l-antiterrorisme voir aussi http://owni.fr/2012/07/02/adlene-hicheur-jetais-le-pigeon-providentiel/
- “La « discrimination génétique » au cœur d’une guerre de lobbyistes” http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/478749/la-discrimination-genetique-au-coeur-d-une-guerre-de-lobbyistes (assureurs vs. associations de malades)
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