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Several writings worth reading, this week,"How Markets Crowd Out Morals" http://bostonreview.net/forum-sandel-markets-morals … "there some things money can’t buy but there are also many things money shouldn’t buy""Why Prove Theorems?" http://bulletin.imstat.org/… by Rick Durrett"The US spends more than any other country on health care..." http://guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/… see"Inside the U.S." http://globalpost.com/dispatch/… when U.S. reporters cover the U.S. the way the write about other countries, it's called a "satire""Gerard Debreu‘s Secrecy: His Life in Order and Silence" http://hope.dukejournals.org/… (discovered while reading http://marginalrevolution.com/…)"Countries outside the world's elite university systems are better at transforming research capacity into citation" http://insidehighered.com/news/…awesome! http://stupidcalculations.com/  "Where practical facts get rendered into utterly useless ones" via flowingdata"How fast is the London Fire Brigade?" http://ft.com/intl/cms/… via http://spatial.ly/… see"Why Theoretical Computer Scientists Aren't Worried About Privacy" http://jeremykun.com/… via msgbi[lego] "population growth and the gaps in wealth and carbon footprint" via flowingdata"How (not) to argue with sceptics and deniers: a historian's guide" http://guardian.co.uk/science/the-h-word/… by HPS_Vanessa via medskep"Playing With Numbers" http://washingtonmonthly.com/features/ … "How U.S. News mismeasures higher education and what we can do about it""The N.S.A.'s Math Problem" http://nytimes.com/… via NGhoussoub very interesting to discover that article published 7 years agovia forfinancewatch "60 Seconds of Chaos - picture of Goldmans trading robots in action" http://businessweek.com/articles/...  see"A new book sheds light on how little of the world we see through our browsers" http://bookforum.com/inprint/… via ritholtz[LaTeX] "LaTeX in the Cloud" https://writelatex.com/  by writelatex good to know"What does it mean to have “predicted the crisis”? " http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.co.uk/… by Noahpinion great post (reminds me http://www.slate.fr/lien/…)"Liquid Gold" http://imf.org/external/… "What an $18 million maple syrup heist tells us about the economics of supply management"interesting thought, via mattstat If NSA algorithms so good at detecting spies, how did Edward Snowden go undetected?Too much of a good thing" http://www.economist.com/news/… "Many so-called management virtues are just as likely to be vices in disguise" via ticxhuet quelques billets en francais,sur la communauté des blogueurs scientifiques, http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/… par paslap (présentation donnée à http://sciencewriters.ca/ )"Aux Etats-Unis, le combat solitaire des “whistleblowers”, patriotes de la transparence" http://telerama.fr/monde/… par oliviertesquet"Journalistes web retitrent leurs articles à intervalles réguliers et insérent des signes de ponctuation" http://arretsurimages.net/… via gouluet quelques pensées suite à l'élection (partielle) pour les francais d'Amérique du Nord,&#62; el2012=read.table(+ "http://komodo.regardscitoyens.org/public/legislatives2012/resultats/LEG_2012_T2_resultats_BE_circonscriptions.csv",+ header=TRUE,sep=";",dec=",")Frédéric Lefebvre élu avec 8010 voix, score le plus bas de l'hémicycle (hors triangulaires) ...&#62; T=table(el2012$code)&#62; triangulaire=names(T)[trian]&#62; el2012b=el2012[el2012$code%notin%triangulaire,]&#62; elu=el2012b$non&#62; N=el2012b$Voix&#62; Xelu=N[elu=="oui"]&#62; lefebvre=8010&#62; Xelu=c(lefebvre,Xelu)&#62; boxplot(Xelu,horizontal=TRUE,col="light blue")&#62; abline(v=lefebvre,col="red")...dans une circonscription de plus de 150,000 inscrits. Mais l'important, c'est de gagner, non ?&#62; N=el2012b$Voix&#62; insc=el2012b$Inscrits&#62; Xelu=N[elu=="oui"]/insc[elu=="oui"]&#62; Xelu=c(lefebvre/156645,Xelu)&#62; boxplot(Xelu,horizontal=TRUE,col="light blue")&#62; abline(v=lefebvre/156645,col="red")Did I miss something ?