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Some posts and articles, discovered this week on the internet,"3 Reasons Why Your Predictions Of The Future Will Go Wrong" http://fastcoexist.com/mba/…The Folk Theorem of Statistical Computing, according to ‏StatModeling "When you have computational problems, often there’s a problem with your model" http://andrewgelman.com/..."Microfounded Social Welfare Functions" http://mainlymacro.blogspot.ca/… via TweetEconinteresting survey, http://embruns.net/logbook/… on embruns's (awesome) blog"7 days without email: Taming the tyrant" http://itworld.com/software/…"UK rhetoric on Solvency II gains momentum" http://actuarialpost.co.uk/… via texierlionel"Volunteering abroad might make people feel good, but it can be detrimental to those who are supposed to be helped" http://bbc.co.uk/news/…"Six Ways to Separate Lies From Statistics" http://bloomberg.com/news/… via MargRev's post http://marginalrevolution.com/… "Interpreting Statistical Evidence""A Most Profound Math Problem" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/… (on the P=NP problem)"O. Blanchard, G. Dell'Ariccia, and P. Mauro pose 12 open questions about macro policy" http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.fr/… and http://imf.org/"The Case for Megabanks Fails" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/…(Good) "Old R-Squared!" http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/…at least ! http://guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/… via SH_lelabo I can now have a grant to watch porn at the office !"The factors UK academics consider most important for promotion" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/…which way is causality ? http://dobelli.com/start/… top universities are "good", or do they simply recruits the brightest students around ?"a consistent framework for defining and measuring claims inflation" in General Insurance http://theactuary.com/features/…"The government is spending way more on disaster relief than anybody thought" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…"The studies behind austerity are weak. The study behind ‘uncertainty’ is worse." http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…"U.S. Homeowners’ Reasons for Owning More Than Financial" http://gallup.com/poll/… via ritholtz see "Taxpayers, Crop Insurance, and the Drought of 2012" http://ewg.org/research/… and the report http://static.ewg.org/pdf/…"Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know" http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/… (on reservoirs and stratified samples)[free ebook] "Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers" https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/…"The sun gets to its highest point in the sky at a different time each day" http://slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/… The figure-8 shape is called "analemma""SAS Big Data Analytics Benchmark (Part One)" http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/… via Rbloggers analyticbridge and RevolutionR"Science communication both an opportunity and an obligation" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/…"38,000 Historical Maps to Explore" http://davidrumsey.com/...  via http://theatlantic.com/technology/… and dpla see e.g.avec quelques articles en français,"L’obsolescence est-elle programmée ?" http://drgoulu.com/… par goulu"Politique des algorithmes, Les métriques du web" http://cairn.info/… via GameinSociety et Silvae"Réchauffement climatique ou fin d’une période glaciaire?" http://mpt2013.fr/…"Les universités, prêtes à tout pour une bonne note" http://lemonde.fr/education/… (pour rappel, la loi de Goodhart http://en.wikipedia.org/Goodhart's_law)Did I miss something ?