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Three very interesting posts, this week, somewhere else on the internet"Reciprocity as the Foundation of Financial Economics" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.ca/2013/10/…"Why Microsoft Word Must Die" http://antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/…"Obesity is not a disease. Pretending otherwise will stoke an epidemic and crush the NHS" http://spectator.co.uk/features/9049971/…among other writings worth reading Academic blogging http://symposium-magazine.com/the-professor-as-digital-native on "opportunity cost of spending time on blogging and social media""Richard Thaler, University of Chicago behavioral economist on stock markets, NFL drafts and the importance of trust" http://minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/…when Twitter goes viral http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/08/visualizing … via @statschat see"Basing university subject rankings on reputation metrics disadvantages departments outside global cities." http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2…"A Grand Illusion" by Euny Hong http://symposium-magazine.com/a-grand-illusion on "super-elite and super-motivated French students"On “flipped school” http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/… "where students watch teachers’ lectures at home and do so-called “homework” in class....""Game theory works for football tournaments" http://voxeu.org/article/world…"Mathematicians and Computer Scientists Shrug over the NSA Hacking" http://scientificamerican.com/article.cfm… via @amermathsoc"The end of 'Goodbye:' What it means when nobody hangs up" via @NGhoussoub"Shutdown Stirs Investor Anxiety" via http://online.wsj.com/article/… and @ritholtz see"Financial greed ‘threatens the good name of maths’" http://thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/ …"A JPMorgan Ph.D.?" http://insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/07/proposed-phd…"An Open Letter to Scientific American and Why You’ve Lost a Reader:" http://isisthescientist.com/2013/… via @tomroud"Being on the Field When the Game Is Still Under Way. Financial Press and Stock Markets during Crisis" http://plosone.org/article/info…"On weights and coding errors: odd coincidence or dress rehearsal?" http://econbrowser.com/archives/2013/10/…"we need to share research results, even when they are wrong" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/…"Wall Street Loves A Cheater" http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/10/11/wall…I should start writing this kind of acknowledgments, via @coulmont and @ProfLikeSubst (in an astronomy conference proceeding)"It’s no longer the economy, stupid" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/1… "it’s the government.""The small-world effect is a modern phenomenon" http://arxiv.cornell.edu/1310.2636 "How Twitter is Ruining America" http://theatlanticwire.com/politics/…"New PhDs vs new faculty positions" from @NatureBiotech via @Tideliar and @bradleyvoytek see"Data Hackers" http://nationofchange.org/data-hackers …"Optimal Rules of Thumb for Consumption and Portfolio Choice" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/… via @kproductivity"Do Better Economic Models Lead to Better Forecasting?" https://youtu.be/ZbQxRT-VJ68  via @deagiles and http://oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/... The “Nasty Effect:” Online Incivility and Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111…"Scientific Data Has Become So Complex, We Have to Invent New Math to Deal With It" http://wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10…"Humans 1, Robots 0" http://online.wsj.com/article/… "Cashiers Trump Self-Checkout Machines at the Grocery Store""Ignore the newspapers" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/… via @adelaigue"Understanding Spurious Regression in Financial Economics" http://jfec.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/ … via @deagilesHow to get your papers published (by Xiao-Li Meng) http://bulletin.imstat.org/wp-content/… via @renaudjf see"Calculating AUC the hard way" http://bayesianbiologist.com/2013/10/10/… by @CjBayesian Nice!"The Nobel Prize in Physics Is Really a Nobel Prize in Math" http://theatlantic.com/technology/… via @MrHonner but remember that the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics Was Already a Nobel Prize in Math http://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2012/… (reminder from @Anne_Lavigne) bis repetita@sfiegerman "Either Fox News just bought a bunch of gigantic iPads or they employ very, very tiny people" Some Ooompa Loompas are working for Fox News ?"Excitable human dynamics driven by extrinsic events in massive communities" http://pnas.org/content/… via @tomroud"Sometimes good judgment can compel us to act illegally. Should a selfdriving vehicle get to make that same decision" http://theatlantic.com/technology/…"Walmart Can Solve the Inequality Problem" http://newrepublic.com/article… "It Starts With Stickers""Understanding The Washington Game" http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10 …20 Years in the future, the Government Is still shutdownof course, you need to know the following (quite popular on the internet) to find it funnyet toujours quelques articles et billets en français,"La culture du partage ou la revanche des foules" http://culturevisuelle.org/icones/2731  par @gunthert"'Shutdown', théorie de la négociation et information incomplète" http://rationalitelimitee.wordpress.com/2013…"Peut-on vraiment dialoguer sur Twitter?" http://ledevoir.com/societe/le-devoir-de-philo/389841/ … par @ChantalBertran2"Limiter le pouvoir des algorithmes" http://internetactu.net/2013/… via @goulu"Contre le colonialisme numérique ; manifeste pour continuer à lire" http://librairie-sciencespo.fr/communication-… via @marindacos +1 (cf http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/7142 )Did I miss something?