Some interesting posts, this week,
- “Analysis of variance? Why it is more important than ever” http://arxiv.org/0504499 …
- “Martin Shubik’s Dollar Auction Game” http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.be/… see also http://johnkay.com/k …
- Témoignage en faveur des logiciels libres http://framablog.org/ca … “Quand l’accès au code source est une question vitale…” Troublant
- “Leaning tower illusion” http://mvr.mcgill.ca/Fred/ … (yes, pictures are identical… amazing)
- “Is The Market Rational? No, say the experts. But neither are you–so don’t go thinking you can outsmart it” http:// money.cnn.com/for … (Dec 2002)
- “The Relevance of Algorithms” http://tarletongillespie.org/Gi …
- “Why do older players commit more technical fouls in basketball? (model this)” http://marginalrevolution.com/mt…
- “Don’t Ask? Internet Still Tells” http:/nytimes.com/tech …
- “In the coming decades, [NYC] will most likely face more rapidly rising sea levels and warmer temperatures, …” http:// nytimes.com/opi…
- “What I tell patients is, if you like coffee, go ahead and drink as much as you want and can” http://theatlantic.com/health… good to know !
- “The Epistemology of Plagiarism” http:// secondlanguage.blogspot.ca/th…
- “A Visual History of Nobel Prizes and Notable Laureates, 1901-2012” http://brainpickings.org/…
- [ebook] David Aldous’s “On Chance and Unpredictability” http://stat.berkeley.edu/~ald …
- “Should you enter the academic blogosphere?” by
@qui_oui (a few weeks ago) http://universityaffairs.ca/should… - “that’s the problem with randomness”, viahttp://search.dilbert.com/com… (“you can never be sure”)
- [ebook] “Matrix analysis and applied linear algebra” by Carl Meyer, http://matrixanalysis.com/Drs.html …
- “Lack of Humility and Fear of Public Misunderstandings Led to Fukushima Accident” http://news.sciencemag.org/sci…
- “Politics and statistics” http://economist.com/dem… “March of the nerds”
- “Don’t rely on economic analysis to learn about human rationality” http://theeuropean-magazine.com/…
- “On proof and progress in mathematics” by Willian P. Thurston http://goo.gl/… via
@stevenstrogatz - “Disaster Economics” by James Surowiecki http://newyorker.com/fin…
- “Chinese typewriter anticipated predictive text” http://news.stanford.edu/n… see http://muse.jhu.edu/jo … for the academic version
- “accurate numbers aren’t any more useful than the ones you make up” http://dilbert.com/fast/ …
- “The Real Republican Adversary? Population Density” http://davetroy.com/ … on
@davetroy‘s blog (“fueled by randomness”, awesome title for a blog) - “One-sided science reporting” on scientists talking silly thingshttp://gropingtobethlehem.wordpress.com/o… via
@zentree - “As Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay High Price” http://www.nytimes.com/how-local-ta…
- “Vis ma vie d’enseignant chercheur en France” http://www.liberation.fr/so …
- [ebook] “L’épistémiologie des modèles et de la modélisation” http://mlikahamdi.unblog.fr/fi… (avec une relecture de Cournot et Lacan par Nicolas Bouleau, p178)
- “Obsolescence programmée et asymétrie d’information” via
@obouba@pareto35 http:// rationalitelimitee.wordpress.com/obsol… - wrong data? http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Wro0Data …
- “Egalitarian airlines” http://worthwhile.typepad.com/woradian_initi/2012/12/egalitarian-air-lines.html … by
@franceswoolley - “Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook” https://medium.com/i7a17de … by
@mathowie (clearly more tolerant than I am) via@clairebrooks - “The holiday is good for the economy during a recession. In more normal conditions, it is a troublesome waste of money”http://www. ft.com/ie9 …
- “High-Frequency Trading and High Returns” http://baselinescenario.com/hi …
- “Can social media strengthen science?” http://www.forbes.com/sit… by
@matthewherper via@Jewels_2626 watch panel discussion
- “Do you need a university job to call yourself an academic?” http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-ed..
- “Twenty-first-century projections of North Atlantic tropical storms from CMIP5 models” http://www.nature.com/ncli …
- “Body Cues, Not Facial Expressions, Discriminate Between Intense Positive and Negative Emotions” http://www.sciencemag.org/cont…
- “The Concept of the University”http:// secondlanguage.blogspot.ca/the-c…
- “soaring flood insurance rates and heightened standards for rebuilding (…) a luxury only the wealthy can afford” http://www. nytimes.com/ny…
- Flood insurance http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pub … “Lack of information on the true likelihood … might still lead property owners to make bad decisions“
- 911 in L.A. “How fast is LAFD where you live?” on http://datadesk.latimes.com
- “Still think you can beat the market?” http://timharford.com/still… on
@TimHarford‘s blog - “How many PhD’s does it take to get a Powerpoint presentation to work?” http://www.phdcomics.com/com… via
@phdcomics
- “Mandelbrot’s life is a heroic story of discovery (…) however, he could be a difficult man” http://online.wsj.com/a… via
@pickover - “Dropping the Ball on Financial Regulation” http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2,,,
- “How Political Campaign Spending Brought Down the Roman Republic” http://www.slate.com/news…
- “Three Brief Proofs of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem” http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/ …
- “The Autism Advantage” http://www.nytimes.com/m … “how autistic workers are being drawn into the modern economy” see also http:// papers.ssrn.com/fm …
- “Like everyone else I know, when I go to the beach I think mathematics…” http://www.newyorker.com/cul … an old post by
@culturedesk - “L’opinion publique n’existe pas” sur http://www.acrimed.org/3938… par Pierre Bourdieu, via
@IanikMarcil (un texte à relire sans modération) - “The Changing Goals of Data Visualization” http:// eagereyes.org/cch…
- “Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload” http:// papers.ssrn.com/fm…
- “Vers une fiscalité des données” http://owni.fr/ees… “plus (on) ouvre ses données aux utilisateurs, moins (on) est taxée” par
@FradiFrad - “The statisticians at Fox News use classic and novel graphical techniques to lead with data” http://simplystatistics.org/ …
Did I miss something ?