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Some writings worth readings"Our age reveres the narrow specialist but we are natural polymaths, at our best when we turn our minds to many things" http://aeonmagazine.com/world-views/ …"The average job now is done by someone who is stationary in front of some kind of screen. Someone who has just one overriding interest is tunnel-visioned, a bore, but also a specialist, an expert. Welcome to the monopathic world, a place where only the single-minded can thrive. Of course, the rest of us are very adept at pretending to be specialists. We doctor our CVs to make it look as if all we ever wanted to do was sell mobile homes or Nespresso machines. It’s common sense, isn’t it, to try to create the impression that we are entirely focused on the job we want? And wasn’t it ever thus? In fact, it wasn’t. Classically, a polymath was someone who ‘had learnt much’, conquering many different subject areas. As the 15th-century polymath Leon Battista Alberti — an architect, painter, horseman, archer and inventor — wrote: ‘a man can do all things if he will’. During the Renaissance, polymathy became part of the idea of the ‘perfected man’, the manifold master of intellectual, artistic and physical pursuits. Leonardo da Vinci was said to be as proud of his ability to bend iron bars with his hands as he was of the Mona Lisa." [to be continued...]"Lessons from using the Internet like a normal person, not an obsessive information consumer " http://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/…"What do people care about on Twitter?" (7 day history) http://trendsmap.com/  see also the awesome "Exploring Political Bias with the Bitly Media Map" on @BerkeleyData's blog http://datascience.berkeley.edu/… on how @Bitly works, by @harbolkn"About blogging" http://learnandteachstatistics.wordpress.com/… (even if I do not agree with "a blog isn’t scholarly", since it is clearly a matter of choice)"What Math and Physics Can Do for New Economic Thinking" http://ineteconomics.org/new-economic-thinking/ … via @NGhoussoub"A reduced workweek would be healthier for your sanity--and our economy." http://fastcoexist.com/3020866/the-30-hour … via @goulu"In 1930, famed economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that within his lifetime, the future economy would be powered with a quarter of the effort. In a hundred years, he wrote, humanity would actually be confronted with the problem of too much leisure time, and what to do with it. Technological innovation meant that we could accomplish whatever needed doing in a 15-hour workweek, and we’d be endeavoring “to spread the bread thin on the butter,” distributing what little work was necessary as equally as possible. Today, despite massive gains in productivity, and thanks to unrepentant consumerism, Keynes’s prediction couldn’t have been further off. In 1991, sociologist Juliet Schor found that Americans in the early ‘90s were working 163 more hours than they were in 1973. But now, economists (including Schor) are considering a perception of time that actually makes sense for a post-industrial clock. In a recent book published by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), called Time on Our Side, they examine why a 30-hour workweek would be a more rational, efficient, and sustainable approach to the modern,developed economy. Most importantly, they say it’s totally doable--and big companies could even play a key part." [to be continued....]"Alice Munro, Mathematician" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marjorie-senechal/alice-munro-mathematician_b_4184156.html … via @stevenstrogatz"The Secret Web" http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2156271,00.html …"The standard for mathematical content in publishing work flows, technical writing, and math software" http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/11/mathml-forges-on.html … by @pkrautzvia @mc_hankins "Frequency of the phrase "marginally significant" against p-value, with explanatory notes""The (French) paradox of Closed Open Access" http://timotheepoisot.fr/2013/11… by @tpoi via @regis_alenda"The Surprising [?] Impact of High School Math on Job Market Outcomes" http://clevelandfed.org/research…"Data Mining: The Fear Factor" http://cfo.com/technology/2013/10/… via @davidkwaltz"distortions caused by various map projection systems, illustrated using a human head" http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/… (via http://geohackers.in/2013/11/…) seeinteresting post http://andrewgelman.com/2013/11/03/employment … "The Employment Nondiscrimination Act is overwhelmingly popular in nearly every one of the 50 states""The academic career path has been thoroughly destabilised by the precarious practices in Universities" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/11/01/p…[Finance] "An Insider's Perspective on the Basel Reforms" http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/… via @JCRAZAFY see"Population Lines" http://spatial.ly/2013/09/population-lines/ … via @spatialanalysis's http://geohackers.in/2013/11/ … see"How to get a factulty job in 20 not-so-easy steps" …http://hopejahrensurecanwrite.files.wordpress.com/2013/… via @temptoetiam"Restructuring the Social Sciences:Reflections from Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science" http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/… by @kinggary"My Hobby" http://xkcd.com/451/  see[fear factor] http://gallup.com/poll/150464/americans… "Most Americans Believe Crime in U.S. Is Worsening, see also "The security mirage" by Bruce Schneier http://ted.com/talks/bruce_schneier.html (with French subtitles) via @enraje see"Women expected to do more at home – and at work" http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/… by @moorehn (I'll read it once I'm done with cooking the diner)damned, I missed it http://lifehacker.com/the-scientifically-best-time-to-… "The Scientifically Best Time to Drink Your Coffee" via @tamaradull"(Most) Everything Wrong With Time Series" http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=9668  by @mattstat via @DEAGiles"The More Followers, the More You Tweet" (or the opposite, via http://sysomos.com/insidetwitter/ )"What millions of lines of code look like" http://informationisbeautiful.net/… … by @infobeautifulinteresting http://thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/16/the-apple… "The Apple ‘Kill List’: What Your iPhone Doesn’t Want You to Type" via @nitot (cannot check, no iPhone)"Dancing to Silent Algorithms" https://medium.com/futures-exchange/4bc … by @SciencePunk"Market Failure and Government Failure" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/…"Academia, here I come" (via @9gag)"When, if ever, will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than of living ones?" http://what-if.xkcd.com/69/ "Plutocrats vs. Populists" http://nytimes.com/2013/11/03/opinion/…"Seasonally adjusting time" http://significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive… via @DEAGilesalmost what I experienced last Thursday! via @silicium17et quelques articles en français"Travailler à haute voix sur Twitter" http://ticetsociete.revues.org/pdf/1330  via @Benavent1675, "qui étaient les Bonnets Rouges ?" http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/deja-vu/2013/11/03/ras … par @Padre_Pio via @thomas_bronnec"Déchiffrer automatiquement le chiffre de Vigénère" http://blogs.univ-poitiers.fr/laurentsignac/2013/10/30/ … damned, le post que je pensais faire ce week-end (en R)Did I miss something?