Several interesting posts, here and there, this week
- From April 26th until May 7th, 1986, in Europe, via http://ucsusa.org/news/… see
- “Why have so few bankers gone to jail for their part in the financial crisis?” http://economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/… via TheEconomist
- “The French elite: where it went wrong” http://ft.com/intl/cms/… via LaGuirlande
- [geek and actuary] http://math.stackexchange.com/… “How often does it happen that the oldest person alive dies?” (as mentioned by leandro_cc best answer was “once“)
- “Pi seems a good random number generator – but not always the best” http://purdue.edu/uns/html4ever/…
- “The Mathematics of Juggling” https://simonsfoundation.org/features/ … via http://cientificamerican.com/…
- “Research shows another reason for fee transparency” http://insidehalton.com/opinion/columns/… via JofFinance
- “Who says North is up?” http://we-are-star-stuff.tumblr.com/… via ilovecharts see
- “Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing?” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/…
- http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/ … “Why are birthrates falling around the world? Blame television…”
- [Ad] “Against child abuse” https://youtu.be/6zoCDyQSH0o extremely clever (via http://huffingtonpost.com/… )
- “Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream” http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/… by Joe Stiglitz, via MarkThoma
- Good thing we had Kyoto Protocol ! “Time to wake-up!” http://philippewaechter.natixis.com/… (did it sound like I was being cynical ?) by phil_waechter see
- [R] nice post on animations with R, http://trinkerrstuff.wordpress.com/…
- [photography] “Bureaucratics” http://brainpickings.org/index.php/…
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- “How should economists respond to the National Household Survey?” http://worthwhile.typepad.com/… “The voluntary nature of the survey compromises…“
- “Stereotypes in Europe” http://ftalphaville.ft.com/… via http://marginalrevolution.com/… see also http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/… (I did like the fact that for French people, French are at the same time the most and the least arrogant people in Europe)
- “What if the ‘mass media’ era was just an accident of history?” http://paidcontent.org/… by mathewi via rosselin
- [video (game?)] https://youtu.be/rB5jJuMP84E “Nanex ~ Order Routing Animation ~ 02-May-2013” via goulu (see also http://popsci.com/technology/,,, for more details about the graph – additional details on HFT should be skipped)
ein wenig Lektüre in Deutsch (für einmal)
- “Computer und Gott” http://futurezone.at/meinung/… von peterglaser
et un peu de lecture en français
- Rapport “enseignement de l’informatique à l’école” http://academie-sciences.fr/… (sous-titré “il est urgent de ne plus attendre“) via http://blog.usinenouvelle.com/innovation/…
- “Les inégalités ont toujours existé” http://monde-diplomatique.fr/… via mdiplo
- “L’école, chronique d’une incompréhension collective” http://geographie.blog.lemonde.fr/… par Geographedumond
- “Le grand méchant anglais scientifique” http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/… par tomroud
- “L’attentat de Boston : Chronique d’une compassion sélective” http://acrimed.org/… par VictorSR1988 et TristanIrschli
- “Modeling the Eurovision Song Contest” http://mewo2.com/nerdery/… (en anglais, mais j’ai l’impression que seuls les francais suivent l’Eurovision)
Did I miss something ?