Some interesting posts and articles this week,
- “Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past” http://wired.com/wiredenterprise/…
- “Unmitigated Gauls: Pardon my French about French economics” http://web.mit.edu/krugman/… via
alea_ andadelaigue - “Why your 8-year-old should be coding” http://venturebeat.com/2013/… via
abmathewks or, same message with a DIY strategy, http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/4733
- “The Science of What We Know & Dont Know About Data Visualization” via
KirkDBorne andeagereyes http://blogs.hbr.org/cs… - [notes] “Statistical Learning Theory and Sequential Prediction” by Rakhlin & Sridharan: http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~rakhlin/… via mdreid
- “The rate of false positives found in lung cancer surgery is 9.1% in the U.S. and 24% in Hawaii” http://medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ … via
medskep - “Science’s Cult of Calculation” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/… “doing the math is often easier than generating ideas”
- “The entire culture in bank executive management is one of irresponsibility” http://pieria.co.uk/articles/… via
Ian_Fraser byFrances_Coppola - “Two versions of Goodhart’s Law” http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ru/… via
@MarkThoma andeconoclaste onNoahpinion‘s blog - “The ‘laws of economics’ don’t exist” http://blogs.reuters.com/edgy-optimist/… via
ritholtz - “A Bayesian Algorithm for Reconstructing Climate Anomalies in Space and Time” http://martintingley.com/1.pdf (1) and http://martintingley.com/2.pdf (2)
- “Inform pedestrians, not drivers” http://people.few.eur.nl/kapoor/… via MargRev
- “New Method Proves—Again—Climate Change Is Real” http://scientificamerican.com/is-real…
- “Awkward Science Stock Photography” http://jacksofscience.com/chemistry/…
- [RIP] George E P Box (1919−2013) on
robjhyndman‘s blog (sorry for the delay) see also the interesting interview http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/… - “Don’t Listen to E.O. Wilson” http://slate.com/articles/… “Math can help you in almost any career” via
alejandroadem - “The retreat of virtue has become a plague of our times. Greed is legitimate.” http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… via GamineLise
- “A Data-Crunching Prize to Cut Flight Delays” http://technologyreview.com/news/513141/a-…
- “The devil’s defense of Bitcoin volatility” http://marginalrevolution.com/…
- “Bitcoin crashes, losing nearly half of its value in six hours” http://arstechnica.com/business/… by cfarivar
- “Request for Information Regarding an Initiative to Promote Student Loan Affordability” http://regulations.gov/#!doc… via http://federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/…
- “Great, now engineers think that they are economists too” http://pandodaily.com/ …
- “Since 1790, the United States has suffered 16 banking crises. Canada has experienced 0.” http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/… see http://frbatlanta.org/documents/…
- “The top 20 data visualisation tools” http://netmagazine.com/features/… via
EdwardTufte
a very nice tweet
- “People found guilty of not using punctuation deserve the longest sentence possible.” by
sixthformpoet
and the only picture I want to share this week
- Deir ez-Zor, Syria, last week http://letemps.ch/… … (and
jbdba)
et comme à chaque fois, quelques billets et articles en français,
- En France, “Déclarations de patrimoine des élus” http://huffingtonpost.fr/… “Regardez comme je suis pauvre” par
StanKraland viaAymericPontier (on évitera de faire un rapprochement avec http://francesoir.fr/actualite/…)
- “Quelques enseignements de l’affaire des paradis fiscaux” http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/… par
nb58 - “« Droit à l’oubli » sur Internet : la fin de la généalogie et des archives ?” http://rue89.com/rue89-culture/…
- [RIP] RT
SH_lelabo Misère de la dépêche AFP : “Raymond Boudon (…) l’un des grands noms de la sociologie de l’individu…” http://liberation.fr/societe/… - intéressant “Travail et organisation dans le secteur public : la fascination du privé ?” http://nrt.hypotheses.org/416 par
nrtravail
Did I miss something ?