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Some writings worth reading"Publish means “make public”. Paywalls are the opposite of publishing" http://svpow.com/2012/10/16/pub… via http://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier… (and @NGhoussoub )"Leading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a "tyranny" that must be broken" http://theguardian.com/science/2…"Sorry, New York Times: Math Has to Be at Least a Little Boring" http://slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/10/ … by @kkakaes via @stevenstrogatzinteresting (but difficult) questions http://gapminder.org/Gap… (via http://gapminder.org/news/…) e.g."Who’s missing in modern academia: solitary geniuses or something much more significant?" http://theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/…[an economist perspective] "Why don’t people have more sex?" http://marginalrevolution.com/marg… by @tylercowen in 2005“Sex can be considered, at times, a significant exercise” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/ … via @cblatts (good to know)"Income and Inquality by each US State" by @VisualEcon's http://visualizingeconomics.com/viewincomeguide…"Data, Data Everywhere... " http://bbc.in/...  (via @deagiles)"The data is not enough" http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/06/th… (interesting points)"Finance is an industry addicted to gambling. Regulators should be careful..." http://www.theguardian.com/business/20 … by @Chris_arnade via @moorehn"The 12 Meanest Things Nassim Taleb Has Said About Economists" http://businessinsider.com/nassim-taleb-on-economists…"Get to Know a Projection: Gene Keyes’ 40-Year Quest for the Perfect Map" http://wired.com/w… see"Scientific Data Has Become So Complex, We Have to Invent New Math to Deal With It" http://wired.com/wiredscience/2…"Here's why Wall Street has a hard time being ethical" http://theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/… by @Chris_arnade"The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete" http://wired.com/science/disco…"The Methodology of Positive Economics" https://web.archive.org/web/… by Milton FriedmanTwitter, and langage data http://technologyreview.com/graphiti/… see[collector] "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" https://dropbox.com/sh/Nelson%20Computer … Ted Nelson's 1974 edition"Looking for fraud? Don't look at food stamp recipients, look at Wall Street" http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/… (another great post by @Chris_arnade)"Characterization of financial time series" http://typo3.cs.ucl.ac.uk/fileadmin/UCL-CS/images/…"Every civil war since WW2" (via http://www.economist.com/content/inner-turmoil … and @finansakrobat )+1 "Do you make these 6 mistakes? A funding scheme that turns professors into typing monkeys" http://curt-rice.com/2013/11/05/…"random variable" vs. "chance variable" http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/2013/12/… by @DEAGiles (see also https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/… ) seeonce again @TCJUK published the post I wanted to write yesterday evening http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.co.uk/201… (before I fall asleep)[ebook] "Data Mining Applications with R" http://books.google.com.au/books… via @statisticsblog"Why do we value gold?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine…"The probability of a new constitution mentioning ‘democracy’ appears to be asymptotically approaching 1" http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2013/12/…"10,000 Top Passwords" https://xato.net/passwords/more-top-worst-passwor… and to go further https://xato.net/passwords/how-i-collect-password… "How I Collect Passwords" by @m8urnettFalse positive and false negative in picture recognition http://petewarden.com/2013/12/04/w… by @petewarden awesome!"Introducing CrimeMap - A Web App Powered by ShinyApps!" http://blenditbayes.blogspot.fr/2013/11/…"Inside the Box" http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/cr… "People don’t actually like creativity.""What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature" http://economics.mit.edu/files/9138 The "Programming with Big Data in R" project http://r-pbd.org/ "Interesting piece on why charts in The Economist are the way they are..." via @NobleFrancis"Causal Inference, Identification, and Identification Strategies" https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&#38;p… by Jesse Anttila-Hughes[fabuleux ebook] "L’informatique sans ordinateur" http://csunplugged.org/sites/default/fil … (mais je reviendrais dessus après les fêtes)par @OSM_FR "Notre communiqué de presse sur l'achèvement du tracé des 36680 communes françaises" http://openstreetmap.fr/36680-communes Peter Gumbel sur l'école française http://francetvinfo.fr/societe/education/ … via @ArakhneeDid I miss something? (I mean, something interesting and relevant)