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Some writings worth reading, found here and there"8-Second Attention Span?" https://linkedin.com/today/post/… ht @temptoetiam"Chinese Hackers Vacuum Data From U.S. Health Industry" http://businessweek.com/news/…"Homeownership Rates By Birth Year And Age" (via http://housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/…) ht @PlanMaestro"How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic" http://technologyreview.com/view/527506/… ht @TrustMestat (see also http://arxiv.org/1405.4720)After more than a year of unsuccessful searching, authorities called in an elite group of statisticians. Working on their recommendations, the next search found the wreckage just a week later."Hacking Academia: Data Science and the University" http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/… by @jakevdp"On Machine Learning" http://bugra.github.io/work/… by @bugraa ht @josephmisiti"Deep Learning" http://iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/… by Yoshua Bengio, Ian Goodfellow and Aaron CourvilleMT @TheStalwart "Median age in China on the verge of surpassing the US" (Via http://kc.frb.org/publicat/…)"Hit and run. Think Bayes!" http://lamages.blogspot.fr/2014/…"Smoke, but No Fire? In Social Science, Focus on the Most Distinct Part" http://journals.cambridge.org/9135924 …"Paying twice or paying thrice? Open access publishing in a global system of knowledge production and consumption" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/…"Time Well Spent" http://dallasfed.org/assets/… "Declining Real Cost of Living in America" (in 96) ht http://datarep.tumblr.com/ "When cooperation counts" http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/…Reconcile-csv http://okfnlabs.org/reconcile-csv/  "Joining datasets with fuzzy matching""Who in europe owns/rents/has a loan on their house" http://bbc.com/24387237"Economists Dissing Economics" http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2014/…"If A Computer Can Diagnose Cancer, Will Doctors Become Obsolete?" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/… by @andrewflowers"Tokyo Gets the Least Sleep in the World, 5hr 46min" https://jawbone.com/blog/… by @brianwilt"The PhD track: Who succeeds, who drops out?" http://rev.oxfordjournals.org/199…"Smartphones Overstate Their Social Intelligence" http://nytimes.com/2014/08/… ht @pareto35"Surprising Test Results For Some Of The World's Richest Students" http://huffingtonpost.com/2014…"You Are Not Nearly Scared Enough About Ebola" http://foreignpolicy.com/articles/…"Sex Lies and Science: How a Toronto-based infidelity site is testing the limits of what constitutes social sciences" http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/…"Brains, tools, innovation and biogeography in crows and ravens" http://biomedcentral.com/1471-2148-12-72…"Taking risks: a price worth paying for knowledge" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/…"Funders should encourage scientists to issue smaller numbers of more significant research papers" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/…"The right to read is the right to mine: Text and data mining copyright exceptions introduced in the UK" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/…"Are teachers really resistant to change?" http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/…MT @aussietorres "Ghostly Ruins: Athens 2004 Olympic venues, ten years later" http://nbcnews.com/news/…"The Most Wanted Man In The World" http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden …"Investigating crime and corruption with maritime databases" http://schoolofdata.org/2014/… ht @visionscarto"A Comparison of the Most Democratic and the Most Republican Congressional District" http://reddit.com/dataisbeautiful/…"Propaganda war" http://economist.com/news/… "Both sides consume fantasy news""Public, Pointed Scientific Spats—Feature, Not Bug" http://nautil.us/blog/…"Who governs science?" http://theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/…"Languages used on the internet" http://reddit.com/dataisbeautiful/…"5 Diseases That Are Scarier Than Ebola" http://motherjones.com/environment/…"Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big" http://chrisstucchio.com/blog/…"Computational Linguistics of Twitter Reveals the Existence of Global Superdialects" http://arxiv.org/1407.7094  via http://www.technologyreview.com/529836/…"Never Forgetting a Face" http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014… and "Big Data and Biometrics: Why Your Face Matters More than Ever" http://smartdatacollective.com/bernardmarr/…"Accidental Renaissance: the photos that look like Italian paintings" http://theguardian.com/artanddesign/…et un peu de lecture en français"Existe-t-il une infinité de mélodies?" http://hervekabla.com/… ht @goulu"L’Europe agonise économiquement et la finance se porte à merveille. On vit plus que jamais dans une économie casino" http://liberation.fr/economie/…"Entre exigence éditoriale et impératif d'audience, comment se situent les journalistes web" http://inaglobal.fr/presse/… avec @AngeleChristin"Joël Gombin [aka @joelgombin] et François Briatte, nerds sociologues" http://lesinrocks.com/2014/…"Si on m’abattait, quelle photo publierait-on de moi?" http://blogues.lapresse.ca/hetu/…"Une femme et un Français champions de mathématiques" http://lefigaro.fr/sciences/… (j'avais raté ce titre, merci Kassem)comment est mort le second degré http://affordance.typepad.com/mon_weblog/…"Vers une opinion publique éclairée?" http://zeroseconde.com/2014/…"La crise ne rend pas les riches plus riches et les pauvres plus pauvres, sauf en France" http://ecointerview.wordpress.com/2014/…Did I miss something?By the way, if anyone knows where I can find it, I  really want that t-shirt ! (via @9gag)