A lot of interesting posts and articles, this week, here and there
- “How game theory will stop Iranian nukes” by Ariel Rubinstein http://haaretz.com/weekend/… via
margrev
- [R] “A Brief Tour of the Trees and Forests” http://statistical-research.com/… via
rbloggers and paulblaser - (in 2006), “U.S. universities raise tuition, and applicants follow” http://nytimes.com/…
- “How to destroy the internet” http://gizmodo.com/… via
LordKrlhz - “
justinwolfers andBetseyStevenson‘s must-read column about the Reinhart-Rogoff debate” http://bloomberg.com/… “Colleges should be expected to share the data needed to model their contribution to earnings by major & school” via
mileskimball http://online.wsj.com/…- [R] plotKML (http://plotkm
l.r-forge.r-project.org/ ) R codes are https://code.google.com/… - “Yes, money really can buy happiness” http://washingtonpost.com/… by
dylanmatt - “Banks Have Become Too Big To Fail Again. Uh-Oh” http://slate.com/…
- StatModeling‘s blogroll andrewgelman.com/blogroll…
- [R] “R in insurance” https://gist.github.com/… July15th, Cass Business School, programme is out
- Sunday morning, http://bookshelfporn.com/ books, just books,
- “Japanese Whisky” http://online.wsj.com/… “The finest single malt in the world is no longer from Scotland” via
econoclaste Indeed - “Economic Blockade and WikiLeaks: Iceland and Beyond” http://scoop.co.nz/stories/… via
GreeGreece - “Using Latex in Gmail” with http://alexeev.org/gmailtex.html nice ! via http://mathandmultimedia.com/…
- “Unit roots and mean reversion in U.S. GDP per capita” http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/… on
delong‘s blog - “Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience” http://nature.com/nrn/…
- “The world’s population by latitude and longitude” http://geekosystem.com/… via
sferik
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- “George and his dragons” http://guardian.co.uk/… via http://politbistro.hypotheses.org/1619 and
politbistro - “How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers” http://nytimes.com/… via
antonioregalado - “Can Science Lead to Faith?” http://newyorker.com/ by
GaryMarcus viatilbegoksun - “The Economy Has Nothing To Do With The Stock Markets, Right?” http://Forbes.com/… by
JerryLeeBowyer via Economy24x7 - “Let’s not talk about the plumbing, the nuts and bolts — that’s for plumbers, for statisticians” http://nyti.ms/12MROVu via
leonidkruglyak - “For the first time ever” http://owen.org/blog/6727 … via
adelaigue - “How career practices in academia discourage openness” https://news.ycombinator.com/…. via
gvwilson and kaythaney - “What Has Mattered to Economics since 1970” http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/ehkim/… (in 2006) via techstepper
- “What happened when MPs took a maths exam?” http://bbc.co.uk/…
- “Why American Students Are Trailing in Computer Science” http://huffingtonpost.com/…
- “When Will Don Draper Die?” http://vulture.com/… “We asked an actuary….”
- “Climate Change: The Moral Choices” http://technologyreview.com/review/…
- On “global climate change, extreme weather, and national security” http://environment.harvard.edu/…
- “Open access: four ways it could enhance academic freedom” http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/apr/22/open-access-academic-freedom-publishing … via
RainerGrossmann - “12th graders had no more familiarity with economics in 2012 than they did in 2006” http://live.wsj.com/video/… via
DEAGiles - “Mark Henderson on science writing: ‘Be open about what you think'” http://guardian.co.uk/science/…
- “Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Game Theory Exam” http://popsci.com/science/… via
cblatts - “Is the ‘new’ development economics just the ‘old’ development economics redux?” http://chrisblattman.com/…
- “What Is A Terrorist?” http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/…
- “The Debt To Pleasure” http://economist.com/news/… “A Nobel prizewinner argues for an overhaul of the theory of consumer choice”
- “An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists” http://plosbiology.org/… via
lgatt0 andWrite4Research - “it takes a different kind of courage to be silent, to listen, to trust, and speak when the time is right” http://niemanlab.org/… via
M_C_B - “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer” http://nytimes.com/…
- “More tweets, more votes: social media as a quantitative indicator of political behavior” http://papers.ssrn.com/… via http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/…
- “The (Long Term) Cost of Terror” http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy… via
@TweetEcon - “Jane Austen Responds: Game Theory? Sir, You Flatter Me” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/… via
kdnuggets - [super geek] “Data Science of the Facebook World” http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/… via
EricScherer - “What’s the Mathematically Optimum Jury Size? Is it 12, Six, or One?” http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/… via
NGhoussoub - “Screening tests and invasive medical procedures” http://punkrockor.wordpress.com/… on
lauramclay‘s blog - “A hidden world, growing beyond control” http://projects.washingtonpost.com/…
- correlation, and cause,
avec comme toutes les semaines, quelques billets et articles en français
- Les amateurs de calculs feront les maths, “Enveloppe globale des rémunérations variables, BNP Paribas, 559 millions d’euros que se sont partagés 3252 salariés” http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/entreprise/…
- “Et si on aidait nos étudiants à maîtriser leur e-réputation ?” http://blog.educpros.fr/… by
CaroCMuB - “Le tour du monde en… 20 épiceries!” http://bouchepleine.com/…
- “L’esprit humain est-il bayésien ?” http://insee.fr/fr/…
- “Le bonh et une chose trop sérieuse pour être laissée aux sondeurs et à ces classements internationaux…” http://rue89.com/…
- “Favoriser le transfert de la recherche publique” http://rachelgliese.wordpress.com/…
- “L’assurance à prix cassés” http://frogonomics.wordpress.com/… par Bernard Salanié via
FrogonomicsBlog
Did I miss something ?