A series of writings worth reading, discovered here and there, on the internet,
- “Florida Keys considering drones to fight mosquitoes” http://reuters.com/article/ … (so am I !)
- Stallings (1965) “How Not To Prove the Poincare Conjecture” http://math.berkeley.edu/~stall/…
- “Need to sell a Harley…” via FabSintes and http://huffingtonpost.com/… (see also http://ingunowners.com/forums/…)
- “The Two Cultures of Mathematics” https://dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/… by W.T. Gowers
- “the same climate model produces different results when run on different computers” http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.nz/… via DavidMBrooks see also http://wattsupwiththat.com/… via FrenchRedFrog
- [p value] “Surely God loves the .06 nearly as much as the .05” http://wiki.ubc.ca/…
- “A Mathematician’s Lament” by P. Lockhart http://maa.org/external_archive/… vs “A Mathematician’s Apology” by G.H. Hardy http://math.ualberta.ca/mss/…
- “Kids Can’t Use Computers… And This Is Why It Should Worry You” http://coding2learn.org/blog/…
- “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Offer to teach a man to code and you’re kind of a jerk.” http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…
- “What does peer review mean when applied to computer code?” http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/…
- “Where non-English language is spoken in the US” http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/… see
- The NSA is the ” largest employer of mathematicians on the planet.” http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/… via crampell and tomroud
- [Bayes] http://xianblog.wordpress.com/… “on noninformative priors”
- “World’s Biggest Data Breaches” http://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/… (it’s a bit scary, I know)
- “Google search suggestions by country” http://noahveltman.com/suggest/
- “Welcome to the Age of Denial” http://nytimes.com/… “Our society no longer values the integrity of scientific fact….” via tomroud
- [free ebook] “Causal Inference” http://hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/files/… by Hernán and Robins
- “The problem with algorithms: magnifying misbehaviour” http://theguardian.com/news/datablog/… via blakehounshell
- “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs” http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ via http://economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/…
- “Trends in the Analytics Job Market” http://r4stats.com/2013/…
- “Stories and numbers about dangers” http://thenormchronicles.com/
- “Goldman Issues Mistaken Options Orders, Roiling Prices” http://online.wsj.com/article/…
- “The Point of Economath” http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/…
- “A few words about math” http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/… a “fairly caustic meditation on the role of math in economics” by Noahpinion
- “On being ‘right’ in science” http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/… by choldgraf via ritholtz
- “The Climate May Be Changing, but the IPCC Remains the Same” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/… by dbiello via sciamblogs
- “Reducing the Hype Around Big Data” http://wired.com/wiredscience/… via wiredsciblogs and arbesman
- [U.S. Map] “What Religion Does Your Member Of Congress Identify With?” http://buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/… via ilovecharts see
- “The sciences of science communication” http://pnas.org/content/… via edyong209
- “It’s common to misinterpret that low correlation as a sign of poor prediction.” http://andrewgelman.com/…
- “Have We Evolved to Be Nasty or Nice?” http://online.wsj.com/article/…
- “Researchers can get visibility and connections by putting their data online” http://nature.com/naturejobs/…
- “What’s My Real Cancer Risk? When Online Calculators Don’t Compute” http://npr.org/blogs/health/…
- “Academic martial arts: Proposing and defending your Ph.D.” http://matt.might.net/articles/… via lauramclay
- “Think Big Data Is All Hype? You’re Not Alone” http://allthingsd.com/20130819/… by ahess247
- “Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming” (and human activity) http://nytimes.com/…
- “You might be working with big data if O(n) vs O(n log n) makes a big difference” (says JohnDCook)
- Why benefit spending is rising? http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/… “Corporations get away with crappy wages government has to make up the rest” moorehn
avec un peu de lecture en français,
- [recherche] “La dictature du ‘Publier ou périr’ ” http://sauvonsluniversite.com/sp… et “Le piège de la gratuité” http://sauvonsluniversite.com/sp…
- “Nombre de doctorats (délivrés) en France” via nholzschuch et http://ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/var/… cf
- “Recherche publique, revues privées”, par Richard Monvoisin http://monde-diplomatique.fr/48501 via mdiplo
Did I miss something?