{"word_count": 4827, "character_count": 64627}
A short list of writings worth reading, discovered this month "Ubérisation, turc mécanique, économie à la demande : où va le capitalisme de plateforme ?" https://theconversation.com/uberisation-turc-mecanique-economie-a-la-demande-ou-va-le-capitalisme-de-plateforme-64150 "Bayesian inference completely solves the multiple comparisons problem" http://andrewgelman.com/2016/08/22/bayesian-inference-completely-solves-the-multiple-comparisons-problem/  "The Global Temperature Record and the Early Onset of Industrial Age Warming" http://stochastictrend.blogspot.com/2016/08/corrections-to-global-temperature-record.html  "L’ordinateur est complètement con" http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2016/08/26/gerard-berry-lordinateur-est-completement-con-257428 (c'est toujours important de le rappeler) "Today’s Inequality Could Easily Become Tomorrow’s Catastrophe" http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/upshot/todays-inequality-could-easily-become-tomorrows-catastrophe.html?_r=0 by @RobertJShiller La canicule (et la bière)  https://www.ina.fr/video/RCC9712053545  via  http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/08/20/bon-vieux-temps-contre-la-canicule-buvez-15-litre-de-biere-par-jour/  en 1975, le bon vieux temps...&#160; "Data Geeks Are Taking Over Economics"  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-25/data-geeks-are-taking-over-economics by @ noahpinion  , and the "credibility revolution"  http://www.nber.org/papers/w15794  "Companies are intensifying their efforts to predict which workers are at a high risk of leaving"  https://hbr.org/2016/09/why-people-quit-their-jobs "Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.00900v1.pdf  "Heritability of Attractiveness to Mosquitoes" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0122716 via https://theconversation.com/chemical-attraction-why-mosquitos-zone-in-on-some-people-but-not-others-40705  "In Search of Scalability" https://salon.thefamily.co/in-search-of-scalability-5c495f8f4f0#.o938phs9o … by @Nicolas_Colin "Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone" http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone  "Forget about listening to ourselves. In the age of data, algorithms have the answer" https://www.ft.com/content/50bb4830-6a4c-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c#axzz4ITEeTSei with Yuval Harari "Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/statisticians-found-one-thing-they-can-agree-on-its-time-to-stop-misusing-p-values/ ht @david_colquhoun Linear Regression  http://xkcd.com/1725/ "Quantifying the presumption of innocence"  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1093/lpr/mgv016  "On the (ab)use of statistics in the legal case against the nurse Lucia de B."  https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607340  "Multiple sudden infant deaths – coincidence or beyond coincidence"  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1111/j.1365-3016.2004.00606.x  Damned, j'avais raté le billet de @ gunthert  sur "Le gendarme à Saint-Tropez"  http://imagesociale.fr/3476 "Lire ou relire Habermas : lectures croisées du modèle de l’espace public habermassien"  https://edc.revues.org/868  "For many political psychologists, it seems abundantly clear that traits and politics go together"  http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/politics-and-personality-most-of-what-you-read-is-malarkey?mbid=rss?reload  but guess what... "Are Index Funds Communist?"  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-24/are-index-funds-communist  by @ matt_levine  Diabetes (  http://www.codeblackgroup.com/news/health/22/diabetes-prevalence-in-the-united-states/  ) and Obesity (  http://www.codeblackgroup.com/news/health/21/obesity-prevalence-in-the-us/  ) Prevalence in the U.S. "Les plus gros trous perdus de France"  http://www.datamix.fr/2016/08/les-plus-gros-trous-perdus-de-france/ "Native mobile apps lure us away from the Web under false pretenses, and we shouldn't let them"  http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2016/08/05/use-the-web-instead/  "Presidential Election Predictions 2016"  https://www.r-statistics.com/2016/08/presidential-election-predictions-2016/ "Olympians find it hard to resist junk food too"  http://blogs.plos.org/globalhealth/2016/08/no-surprise-olympians-find-it-hard-to-resist-junk-food-too/  "Why can we not predict earthquakes?"  https://www.statslife.org.uk/environment-nature/2977-ask-a-statistician-why-can-we-not-predict-earthquakes#.V79Sspzq-2Q.twitter  "Pour qui le burkini est-il « ostentatoire »?"  http://imagesociale.fr/3494  par @ gunthert  How decathletes compare in each event compared to the individual world records  http://andybarefoot.com/olympics/decathlon.html "College Won’t Train You for a Job, and That’s Just Fine"  http://www.wired.com/2016/08/college-wont-train-job-thats-just-fine/  "De l’énonciation ventriloque"  http://penseedudiscours.hypotheses.org/4734  par @ mapav8  "The Language Of Headlines"  http://daily.jstor.org/how-does-the-language-of-headlines-work-the-answer-may-surprise-you/  La socio en BD  http://uneheuredepeine.blogspot.fr/2016/08/la-sociologie-comme-elle-se-lit.html  par @ uneheuredepeine "Global warming has allowed easier access to the northwest passage"  http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/08/22/global_warming_has_allowed_easier_access_to_the_northwest_passage.html  ht @ pierrebrt Jacques Neveu (1932-2016)  http://smf.emath.fr/files/jacques_neveu-smf.pdf  et  http://smf.emath.fr/files/jacques_neveu_jardinier.pdf  un homme admirable, selon tous ceux qui l'ont connu "Le chercheur, nouveau résistant"  http://www.regards.fr/web/article/entre-les-intellectuels-et-le-pouvoir-la-rupture-est-consommee  "Can you really tell if a kid is lying?"  https://www.ted.com/talks/kang_lee_can_you_really_tell_if_a_kid_is_lying  "Voyage dans les internets" 60/70  http://www.davduf.net/voyage-dans-les-internets-1-5-60-70-s-l-echo  70/80  http://www.davduf.net/voyage-dans-les-internets-2-3-70-80-039-s-cowboys  90  http://www.davduf.net/voyage-dans-les-internets-3-5-les-annees-1990-un  "Significant Data on Child Detention"  http://endchilddetention.org/significant-data-on-child-detention  ht @ cdb_77  " @ Tahar_B_Jelloun  explique le terrorisme aux enfants"  http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/linvite-culture/tahar-ben-jelloun-explique-le-terrorisme-aux-enfants  Selling Papers  https://theamericanscholar.org/selling-my-papers/#.V72T7pMrKHp  "The world is divided into people who sit on the floor and those who sit on a chair"  http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/08/23/sitting-up/  "Philippa Perry delves into the world of childhood deception to discover when and why children lie"  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p045n621  "The Funky Math of the Electoral College"  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-funky-math-of-the-electoral-college/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_POLE_BLOG  poke @ geopolitics2020  "How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet"  http://time.com/4457110/internet-trolls/  "There is little correlation between bonus and performance and this is backed by widespread academic evidence"  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/star-fund-bonuses-end-neil-woodford-manager-axes-wrong-behaviour-neil-woodford-a7203581.html  "It’s time to bring more realistic models of human behaviour into economic policy and regulation:"  https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/08/23/its-time-to-bring-more-realistic-models-of-human-behaviour-into-economic-policy-and-regulation/  "Exit the Dragon? Kung Fu, Once Central to Hong Kong Life, Is Waning"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/world/asia/hong-kong-kung-fu.html  "Is it best to expect the worst?"  http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/08/02/annonc.mdw266  (influence of patients’ side-effect expectations on endocrine treatment outcome) "Liberal, Moderate or Conservative ? See How Facebook Labels You"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/us/politics/facebook-ads-politics.htmlperf: 6  Jusqu'où les promos ?  http://www.olivierdauvers.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TGC-151.pdf  par @ Dauvers70 "l’augmentation de la capacité des routes aboutit à une hausse des temps de trajet, et à une augmentation du trafic"  http://transports.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/08/23/voitures-evaporees  "1 in 5 scientific papers on genes contain errors because of Excel"  http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7 "Private lives are exposed as WikiLeaks spills its secrets"  http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b70da83fd111496dbdf015acbb7987fb/private-lives-are-exposed-wikileaks-spills-its-secrets  "La France est prise à contre-pied par un phénomène qui n'entre pas dans son système de références spontané"  http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/0211223891544-nous-allons-devoir-revenir-a-une-laicite-de-combat-2022491.php  biological, not adoptive parents transmit body weight and obesity to their children,  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X1630106X?np=y  ht @ razibkhan  "Le naufrage moral de la France"  http://www.authueil.org/?2016/08/23/2335-le-burkini-et-le-naufrage-moral-de-la-france  "Pourquoi les héroïnes de séries américaines boivent-elles toutes du vin"  http://www.slate.fr/story/122507/heroines-series-americaines-vin  (et pas qu'un peu) "Early emerging system for reasoning about the social nature of food"  http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/08/02/1605456113.full.pdf  via  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/opinion/sunday/babies-watching-people-eat.html  What do British prisoners use as currency  https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2016/aug/23/what-do-british-prisoners-use-as-currency?CMP=twt_gu  ramen noddles, not tobacco  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/22/ramen-prison-currency-study "Scientists and science communicators are engaged in a constant battle with ignorance"  https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2016/aug/23/scientists-losing-science-communication-skeptic-cox?CMP=share_btn_tw  ht @ pash22  "Making Peace with Self-Promotion"  http://www.beforetheabstract.com/2016/07/19/making-peace-with-self-promotion-2/  "Chiffrement et lutte contre le terrorisme : attention à ne pas se tromper de cible"  http://cnnumerique.fr/tribune-chiffrement/  par @ cnnum  "How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds"  https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.s6c6pdat3  see also  http://www.tristanharris.com/2016/03/tech-companies-design-your-life-heres-why-you-should-care/ "Think It’s Hot Now? Just Wait"  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/20/sunday-review/climate-change-hot-future.html "Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries"  http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201666 "Save This Man’s Life by Transplanting His Head"  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-audacious-plan-to-save-this-mans-life-by-transplanting-his-head/492755  "Too-Systemic-to-Fail: What Option Markets Imply about Sector-Wide Government Guarantees"  https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20120389  ht  http://econbrowser.com/archives/2016/08/too-systemic-to-fail  L'informatique arrive à l'éducation nationale, dès le primaire (léger, certes)  http://algothymio.blogspot.fr/p/thymio.html "Climat : la chimère du 1,5°C"  http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2016/08/22/la-chimere-du-1-5-c_4985913_3244.html  (paywall, alternative  https://seenthis.net/messages/517943  ) "German minister calls for introduction of facial recognition software at airports and train stations"  http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0821/810806-germany-facial-recognition  "Comme en France, l’Allemagne pousse pour de la reconnaissance faciale dans les gares et les aéroports"  http://www.numerama.com/politique/190318-lallemagne-pousse-pour-de-la-reconnaissance-faciale-dans-les-gares-et-les-aeroports.html  "Le Sénat, un paradis fiscal pour des parlementaires fantômes"  http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/stefanovitch-le-senat-4-ou-5-jours-par-mois-pour-11-350-euros-net-mensuels-17-06-2016-2047403_20.php  ht @ monde_libre "Europe is heading towards a "cataclysmic event" that could lead to the collapse of the euro "  http://www.businessinsider.de/joseph-stiglitz-on-italy-collapse-and-the-end-of-the-euro-2016-8  with @ JosephEStiglitz  "Increasing Ideological Uniformity and Partisan Antipathy Affect Politics"  http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/ "j’apprenais devant vous, prenant le plus de risques possible, dans une certaine solitude"  http://hyperbate.fr/voir/2011/11/20/morphologie/ Mortality  http://www.thelancet.com/lancet/visualisations/mortality "On meurt de 2.4 causes, en moyenne"  http://www.marianne.net/on-meurt-24-causes-moyenne-autres-stats-etonnantes-grande-faucheuse-100245181.html  Anomaly Detection, “Finding a Needle in a Haystack”  http://www.prcconsulting.net/2016/07/machine-learning-anomaly-detection-finding-a-needle-in-a-haystack/  ht @ KirkDBorne Hakim Bey,  http://tracks.arte.tv/fr/hakim-bey-mille-millards-de-mille-sabordages  chez @ tracks_ARTE  "Can you get to know a person through data alone? "  https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/21/dear-data-stefanie-posavec-giorgia-lupi "Searching for Mr. Hyde: A five-factor approach tocharacterizing “types of drunks''  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/16066359.2015.1029920 Bad science is nothing new, but it might cost billions  http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/counterpoint/is-bad-science-costing-us-billions/7750868  ht @ SimonGandevia  "Les données comme première trame urbaine"  http://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/blogues/le-blogue-urbain/477441/les-donnees-premiere-trame-urbaine  "L’hystérisation infernale des faits divers"  https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/190816/l-hysterisation-infernale-des-faits-divers  (#paywall cf  https://seenthis.net/messages/517769  ) "Expliquer est-ce (un peu) excuser ?"  http://www.mezetulle.fr/expliquer-est-ce-un-peu-excuser/ "«Culture de l’excuse»  : les sociologues répondent à Valls"  http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/01/12/culture-de-l-excuse-les-sociologues-repondent-a-valls_1425855  "« Expliquer, c’est déjà vouloir un peu excuser » : la cinglante réponse des chercheurs à Manuel Valls"  http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2016/03/03/terrorisme-la-cinglante-reponse-des-sciences-sociales-a-manuel-valls_4875959_3224.html  Documentaire "Musulmans de France" : 1904-1945  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-Y1YKen50  , 1945-1981  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P67WC7mXxoQ  , 1981-2009  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoACVB7kLz4  "Prison breakthrough"  http://www.economist.com/news/economics-brief/21705308-fifth-our-series-seminal-economic-ideas-looks-nash-equilibrium-prison  series on seminal economic ideas looks at the Nash equilibrium "The celebrities both Republicans and Democrats love"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/17/the-celebrities-both-republicans-and-democrats-both-love-according-to-research/ "The most popular target for photographers was his genitals. People were obsessed with them"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/magazine/davids-ankles-how-imperfections-could-bring-down-the-worlds-most-perfect-statue.html "Et si les Américains ne votaient ni pour Clinton, ni pour Trump"  http://www.lesinrocks.com/2016/08/20/actualite/americains-ne-votaient-clinton-trump-11859369/  par @ galebourg  "Ce que l’affaire burkini nous dit de l’état de notre société"  http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/nathalie-goulet/interdiction-burkini-france-societe_b_11562246.html  "An Introduction to Blockchain and de-centralised apps"  http://d2zmdbbm9feqrf.cloudfront.net/2016/usa/pdf/DEVNET-1192.pdf  (or mp4 version  http://d2zmdbbm9feqrf.cloudfront.net/2016/usa/DEVNET-1192.mp4  ) "Nails Fracking as Source of Massive Methane ’Hot Spot’"  http://commondreams.org/news/2016/08/16/nasa-study-nails-fracking-source-massive-methane-hot-spot "Does Henry Kissinger Have a Conscience ?"  http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/does-henry-kissinger-have-a-conscience  Is big data in big trouble  https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/is-big-data-in-big-trouble/  "Should we run for the hills, far away from the BI and big data space before it implodes" "Il faut savoir que, pour un élu français (....) si on n'est pas d'accord, c'est qu'on ne l'a pas compris"  http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/fathi-derder/crise-economique-france_b_3227852.html  "depuis quand cite-t-on les nazis pour justifier des mesures incisives aux droits et libertés individuels ?"  https://francoischarlet.ch/2016/rien-a-cacher/ "Dans une file d'attente, ce n'est pas la réalité qui compte, mais la perception de l'attente"  http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/2013/07/24/classe-eco-ete-comment-reduire-les-files-dattente-au-parc-dattraction.html  par @ adelaigue  "Les interdictions du ‘burkini’ en France ont à voir avec bien autre chose que la religion ou l’habillement"  https://mounadil.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/burkini-et-crise-de-lidentite-francaise-vus-par-le-new-york-times  "Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis"  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1056/nejmp1604412 "Hyperconnectés, Le Cerveau en surcharge"  http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/061653-000-A/hyperconnectes-le-cerveau-en-surcharge  (le mois prochain sur @ ARTEfr  ) "Sentient machines are a greater threat to humanity than climate change"  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/12/nick-bostrom-artificial-intelligence-machine?CMP=share_btn_tw  "The network distilled the concept of ‘cat face’ out of the data without any guidance"  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n16/paul-taylor/the-concept-of-cat-face  "What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence"  http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-1465827619  "Contre le terrorisme, Twitter rappelle l’absence d’algorithme magique"  http://www.nextinpact.com/news/101026-contre-terrorisme-twitter-rappelle-absence-dalgorithme-magique.htm  (certaines évidences sont bonnes à rappeler) "Predictive policing predicts police harassment, not crime"  http://boingboing.net/2016/08/18/predictive-policing-predicts-p.html  see  http://sci-hub.cc/downloads/6fa8/10.1007@s11292-016-9272-0.pdf  "France’s Burkini Bigotry"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/opinion/frances-burkini-bigotry.html  "the heart of the dispute is something far darker" "Rise of the DIY algo traders: Can tech-savvy amateurs beat the market — and the hedge funds?"  https://www.ft.com/content/0a706330-5f28-11e6-ae3f-77baadeb1c93#axzz4HTlqLzb5  ht @ TofGovaerts  amusant de voir le positionnement de 'economics' par rapport aux sciences sociales ou humaines  https://twitter.com/labUAngers/status/766526419430105089  RT @ Denis_Gouaux  : 1922. Etats-Unis. La brigade des bains s'assure que les tenues féminines sont bien conformes à la loi  NA  "De plus en plus confient leur épargne non plus à un conseiller financier, mais à un algorithme"  http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/comment-les-robo-advisors-vont-bousculer-le-monde-de-l-epargne-39840786.htm  ht @ arnaud_thurudev  "The no-asshole rule", "K-index", etc  https://cubistcrystal.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/imagine-theres-new-metrics-its-easy-if-you-try/  "imagine there’s new metrics" ht @ Alexis_Verger  Quand la France ne fait plus rire....  http://quadruppani.blogspot.com/2016/08/la-france-encore-pete-et-ca-ne-me-fait.html  "Les médias ont-ils traité l'attentat de Nice différemment du 13-Novembre?"  http://www.slate.fr/story/122285/medias-attentat-nice-13-novembre  "Facial recognition – a powerful ad tool or privacy nightmare?"  https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/aug/17/facial-recognition-a-powerful-ad-tool-or-privacy-nightmare?CMP=share_btn_tw "A look at a cinematic masterpiece that changed the visual effects landscape"  http://nerdapproved.com/movies/jurassic-park-holds-up/  via  https://youtu.be/_rlr3Lzvqog  "Donald Trump’s Lack of Respect for Science Is Alarming"  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/donald-trump-s-lack-of-respect-for-science-is-alarming/  ht @ nholzschuch  "Why Statistics Should Be A Mandatory Part of High School Education"  http://blogs.plos.org/scied/2016/08/18/why-statistics-should-be-mandatory/  "How concerned are you..?", ht @ JustinSandefur "Conversation with John Cochrane" part 1  http://econreporter.com/2016/08/35782/  and part 2  http://econreporter.com/2016/08/36071 La crise du lait qui doit tout à l'industrie laitière, et qui accuse la Chine d’être responsable de ses malheurs  http://geographiesenmouvement.blogs.liberation.fr/2016/08/17/chinois-un-effort-pour-boire-du-lait/  "Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression"  http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03282 Marathon finishing time  https://plot.ly/~eecastro/0/distribution-of-marathon-finishing-times/  ht @ ze_armavi  "Truth, lies, and stereotypes: when scientists ignore evidence"  https://aeon.co/essays/truth-lies-and-stereotypes-when-scientists-ignore-evidence  ht @ davdittrich RT @ shutupmikeginn  : Sorry NBC but a green backdrop is asking for trouble.  https://twitter.com/shutupmikeginn/status/766029035537215488/video/1  "'Old School' Econ 101 for the New Generation of Economists"  http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/08/must-read-this-will-be-very-interesting-to-watch-go-forward-matt-kahn-is-very-sharp-and-yet-thinks-substantially-diffe.html  ht @ delong  see free textbook  https://openstax.org/details/principles-microeconomics  guess what  http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/news/20160816/  "July 2016 is Warmest on Record" "Why government leaders should publish the data they’re collecting — and why citizens everywhere should push them"  http://ideas.ted.com/how-open-government-data-creates-smarter-societies/ Syria, rescuing kids  https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/video-shows-boy-rescued-from-rubble-in-syria/2016/08/17/4fca4450-64c8-11e6-b4d8-33e931b5a26d_video.html  "This Is What's Missing From Journalism Right Now"  http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/08/whats-missing-from-journalism  ht @ BenedictEvans  What if the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea,  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map "When a measure becomes a target, it is no longer a measure"  http://www.vox.com/2016/8/16/12482748/success-academy-schools-standardized-tests-metrics-charter  (Goodhart's law) "Liberalism and hate-based extremism"  http://understandingsociety.blogspot.fr/2016/08/liberalism-and-hate-based-extremism.html  "GIS in the Era of Big Data"  https://cybergeo.revues.org/27647  "Est-il possible de condamner à 2 ans de prison ferme un homme pour lecture régulière et répétée de Mein Kampf ?"  http://affordance.typepad.com//mon_weblog/2016/08/confidentialite-acte-lecture.html  “We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated”  http://nautil.us/blog/why-we-shouldnt-accept-unrepeated-scienceour-author-responds-to-his-critics  (part 2) "As Wildfires Rage in California, Experts Say They Are Getting Bigger and Costing More"  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/25/us/wildfire-seasons-los-angeles.html?smid=pl-share  "Lies, Damned Lies and Munchausen Syndrome"  https://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/2016/08/lies-damned-lies-and-munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy/  "Academic journal articles with 'clickbait-y' characteristics are shared more widely"  http://phys.org/news/2016-08-academic-journal-articles-clickbait-y-characteristics.html J. Stuart Hunter, on W. Edwards Deming’s career and the future of statistics  https://blog.deming.org/2016/07/a-historical-look-at-demings-career-lecture-by-j-stuart-hunter/  En France, "4 sportifs de haut-niveau sur 10 sous le seuil de pauvreté"  http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/sport/jeux-olympiques-rio-2016/20160812.OBS6245/jo-2016-athletes-medailles-a-rio-travailleurs-mal-payes-en-france.html  via @ limportant_fr  "Wishing And Hoping"  http://therumpus.net/2016/08/wishing-and-hoping-card-tricks-love-spells-and-methods-of-escape/  "The world’s most famous school aspires to become an agent of social change"  https://www.1843magazine.com/features/eton-and-the-making-of-a-modern-elite  "« amalgames », réflexions critiques sur un nouveau registre discursif"  http://lmsi.net/Amalgames "La religion, une affaire privée ?"  http://lmsi.net/La-religion-une-affaire-privee An Algorithm that renders a desired input string in an author's handwriting  http://visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/handwriting "A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon"  https://github.com/mapbox/polylabel  see  https://www.mapbox.com/blog/polygon-center "The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivor Studies: Discrepancies Between Results and General Perception"  http://www.genetics.org/content/203/4/1505  "Are internet populists ruining democracy for the rest of us?"  https://theconversation.com/are-internet-populists-ruining-democracy-for-the-rest-of-us-63229  Rainfall and Flood, in Louisiana,  http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/88000/ Commitment to data-driven decisions is transforming management of sports. Other industries can — and should — follow  http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/stephen-curry-the-golden-state-warriors-and-the-power-of-analytics-at-work/?utm_source=twitter&#38;utm_medium=social&#38;utm_campaign=sm-direct  "Internalised misogyny: Where women think it's acceptable to beat your wife"  http://glasbrint.com/2016/08/15/domestic-violence/ "Shadowy digital libraries want to hold all the world's knowledge and give it away for free"  http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rise-of-illegal-pirate-libraries  "L'essor des bibliothèques clandestines"  http://www.slate.fr/story/120383/essor-bibliotheques-clandestines  Clusivity Map  http://linguisticmaps.tumblr.com/post/120858467508/514-clusivity-clusivity-refers-to-the-marking "The Generations of Economic Journalism"  http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2016.08.14/1913 "Why you should never use the Hodrick-Prescott filter"  http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jhamilto/hp.pdf  via  http://econbrowser.com/archives/2016/08/why-you-should-never-use-the-hodrick-prescott-filter  ht @ markthoma  "If you want to talk climate change, you need to go up to NYC and Boston to do that. You don't talk that down here"  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DIVIDED_AMERICA_CLIMATE "How Dark Is Dark? Bright Lights, Big City, Racial Profiling"  http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/REST_a_00543#.V7IBg2WZbuQ  ht @ carlos_d_diazht  "Death by Medical Error"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/upshot/death-by-medical-error-adding-context-to-some-scary-numbers.html?_r=0  "What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?"  https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-understand-advanced-mathematics/answers/873950?srid=p6KQ&#38;share=1  "Testing for Racial Discrimination in Police Searches of Motor Vehicles"  http://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.05376v1  ht @ tylercowen "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority"  https://medium.com/@nntaled/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15#.s96ff4vlk  by @ nntaleb "Towards Open Science: The Case for a Decentralized Autonomous Academic Endorsement System"  https://zenodo.org/record/60054/files/aes.pdf  "British woman held after being seen reading book about Syria on plane"  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/04/british-woman-held-after-being-seen-reading-book-about-syria-on-plane  then book sales soar  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/11/sales-of-syrian-culture-anthology-soar-after-woman-held-for-reading-it-on-plane  "The Minority Report"  http://www.cwanderson.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Philip-K-Dick-The-Minority-Report.pdf  by Philip K. Dick, 1956 "Why terrorism does not work"  http://daily.jstor.org/terrorists-ever-win/  "Like many political terms, populism is rather loosely defined, but has at its core a popular-based,.."  http://daily.jstor.org/populism-for-beginners/  "Should We Set a Speed Limit on High-Speed Trading?"  http://daily.jstor.org/speed-limit-high-speed-trading/  In the U.S., the first national census took place on August 2, 1790...  http://daily.jstor.org/happy-birthday-national-census/  "When Refrigeration was Controversial"  http://daily.jstor.org/when-refrigeration-was-controversial/  ht @ BatizLazo  "Should researchers make public all the data they collect when testing drugs and medical devices on patients?"  https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/04/elizabeth-warren-open-data/?s_campaign=tw&#38;utm_content=buffered09f&#38;utm_medium=social&#38;utm_source=twitter.com&#38;utm_campaign=buffer  (yes) In California, one couple uses more water than every home in Los Angeles combined  http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/lynda-stewart-resnick-california-water we're going to challenge moral decisions made by IA, but actually, no human is ever questioned about those issues  https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/764799239134339072  "Model evaluation, model selection, and algorithm selection in machine learning" (part 2)  http://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2016/model-evaluation-selection-part2.html  via @ jeangrey2k  "People never realize how big Texas is"  "Gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by AI, such as self-driving car"  http://moralmachine.mit.edu/ "What Virtual Reality Is Good For? Movies and gaming, right? Wrong"  http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/08/the_only_good_reasons_to_use_virtual_reality_and_the_current_vr_renaissance.html?curator=MediaREDEF  "dans le canton de Vaud les magistrats vont jusqu’à ordonner la surveillance téléphonique rétroactive des appareils"  http://www.lematin.ch/lematindimanche/justice-fouille-telephones-demasquer-chauffards/story/17023479  "Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?"  https://theconversation.com/can-big-data-studies-know-your-thoughts-and-predict-who-will-win-an-election-63110 "Au Chili forte mobilisation contre le système de retraites privées"  http://www.lesechos.fr/monde/ameriques/0211199767831-au-chili-forte-mobilisation-contre-le-systeme-de-retraites-privees-2020224.php  (voir aussi  http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-chile-social-security-20160812-snap-story.html  ) in the U.S. "over a two-year period, 30% of those with private health insurance received a surprise medical bill"  http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/08/_balance_billing_and_drive_by_doctors_are_contributing_to_growing_out_of.html  “If a work of fiction has any force to it, we close the book with a head full of images, lines, and emotions”  http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/is-it-story-that-makes-us-read.html  "Pierre Bayle, the ­'forgotten hero' of the Enlightenment"  http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/08/tolerant-philosopher-why-pierre-bayle-forgotten-figure-enlightenment  "No love, actuary"  http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21704796-report-american-pension-funds-controversially-shelved-no-love-actuary?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/no_love_actuary  "Trends in global inequality"  https://youtu.be/8FIlcChQsmE  animation from @ nytgraphics's   https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/764580759311187968  "A Mathematician's Lament" by Paul Lockhart,  https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf  ht @ WilliamChyr  "From regions to connections and networks: new bridges between brain and behavior"  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095943881630054X "A Quick Guide to Value-Based Pricing"  https://hbr.org/2016/08/a-quick-guide-to-value-based-pricing  "En cet été 2016, la loi est-elle encore véritablement la même pour tous ?"  http://www.blogdroitadministratif.net/index.php/2016/06/08/354-la-loi-n-est-plus-la-meme-pour-tous  ht @ thi_loup "Academic Struggles Predicted by Late 19th and Early 20th Century Autobiographies"  http://www.academiaobscura.com/7-academic-struggles/  "Is Sunscreen A Lifesaver Or A Poison?"  http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-sunscreen-a-lifesaver-or-a-poison/ "Universities urgently need to rediscover their civic mission"  http://wonkhe.com/blogs/comment-universities-urgently-rediscover-civic-mission/  by @ smitajamdar "Common ecology quantifies human insurgency"  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1038/nature08631 via @ Denis_Gouaux  Depuis 1970 le regroupement familial pour les familles des émigrés est passé de 80000 à 12000 / an in 2013 (but still valid, I guess)  https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men  "Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?" "The Dirty Little Secret of Finance: Asymmetric Information"  http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-11/the-dirty-little-secret-of-finance-asymmetric-information  by @ noahpinion  "Should the true costs of insuring deposits be made clearer?"  https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/08/12/should-the-true-costs-of-insuring-deposits-of-up-to-75000-be-made-clearer/  ht @ markthoma  "Contre le terrorisme, la machine législative est devenue folle"  http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/08/12/contre-le-terrosisme-la-machine-legislative-est-devenue-folle_4982062_3232.html  CPGE "formation pluridisciplinaire par excellence" #waitwhat  http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2016/08/11/l-art-de-se-preparer-a-la-classe-prepa_4981440_4401467.html  (les tocards qui vont à la fac peuvent encore souffler) Stars and Stripes  https://anticap.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/cartoon-of-the-day-1691/ "When Law is Not Justice"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/opinion/when-law-is-not-justice.html  "How The Arab World Came Apart"  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html  "Data suggest that couples who have sons are more likely to stay together than those that don’t"  https://www.1843magazine.com/features/its-a-boy-thing  by @ EmilyBobrow  "The Evolution of the 21st-Century Scientist"  http://www.americanscientist.org/blog/pub/the-evolution-of-the-21st-century-scientist about "The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet"  http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21602984-why-everything-you-heard-about-fat-wrong-case-eating-steak-and-cream  see  http://thebigfatsurprise.com/  Donald Trump as research scholar, ht @ AcademicsSay "Explaining Nationalist Political Views: The Case of Donald Trump"  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2822059  via  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/12/a-massive-new-study-debunks-a-widespread-theory-for-donald-trumps-success/  For an American perspective, what’s really across the Atlantic ocean?  http://metrocosm.com/whats-across-the-ocean/ "The amazing power of word vectors"  https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/21/the-amazing-power-of-word-vectors/  ht @ YhatHQ "Antihistamines and Antihubrisines"  http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/HoldingPen/SunsetSalvo.pdf "Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World"  http://www.theonion.com/article/michael-phelps-returns-to-his-tank-at-sea-world-2515  "What happens when you pee in the pool?"  https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/what-happens-when-you-pee-pool "The Election Won’t Be Rigged. But It Could Be Hacked" by @ zeynep   http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/campaign-stops/the-election-wont-be-rigged-but-it-could-be-hacked.html "When will our risk aversion wear off?"  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-riskaversion-idUSTRE7A86GJ20111109  ht @ victorricciardi  on Clinton Plan  http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2016/08/clinton-plan.html  "So how can I say there is no 'plan'?" "Greenland sharks live to be ridiculously old — and may not have sex until they’re 150"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/11/greenland-sharks-live-to-be-ridiculously-old-and-may-not-have-sex-until-theyre-150/ "Enquête : Oui, les profs de français et philo peuvent porter des tongs"  https://edukactus.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/enquete-oui-les-profs-de-francais-et-philo-peuvent-porter-des-tongs/  ht @ francoisdeneve  "Signals, Intelligence"  https://medium.com/@thegrugq/signal-intelligence-free-for-all-5993c2f72f90#.db70w65ld  ht @ chris_bour  "How Deep Learning Solved Phase 1 Of The @ DataScienceGame%22   https://medium.com/@Zelros/how-deep-learning-solved-phase-1-of-the-data-science-game-2712b949963f#.z9d6esxhz  ht @ ly_antoine  "Limiter le chiffrement"  http://edgard.fdn.fr/blog/index.php?post/2016/08/12/Limiter-le-chiffrement  "Will Reading Romance Novels Make Artificial Intelligence More Human?"  http://daily.jstor.org/will-reading-romance-novels-make-artificial-intelligence-more-human "Les plus aisés sont davantage aidés pour partir en vacances"  http://www.inegalites.fr/spip.php?page=analyse&#38;id_article=2172&#38;id_rubrique=110&#38;id_mot=42&#38;id_groupe=13  "Why Facebook Is Really Blocking the Ad Blockers"  http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-facebook-is-really-blocking-the-ad-blockers  "Academic Writing, A Productive Process"  https://explorationsofstyle.com/2016/08/12/a-productive-process/  "Why American Schools Are Even More Unequal Than We Thought"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/upshot/why-american-schools-are-even-more-unequal-than-we-thought.html  by @ dynarski  "New insights into the evolution of cooperation in spatially structured populations"  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/p-nii080816.php  "Everything is fucked: The syllabus"  https://hardsci.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/everything-is-fucked-the-syllabus/  ht @ Undercoverhist "The economics of SSHRC research grants"  http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2016/08/sshrc1.html  (1)  http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2016/08/sshrc2.html  (2) http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2016/08/sshrc3.html  (3) "Perhaps it might be time to abandon altogether the idea of childbirth as a moral experience?"  https://thehairpin.com/monstrous-births-3d666cda5030#.ylhp1ih9c  ht @ tylercowen  "How To Hack An Election In Seven Minutes"  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144#ixzz4GSuIBNwd  "The Greenland shark may live four centuries"  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-shark-idUSKCN10M208  "Linking academic research with the public and policy-makers"  http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/august-2016/linking-academic-research-with-the-public-and-policy-makers/  "The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber"  http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber  or "the Brain of the Sports Fan"  http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-unique-neurology-of-the-sports-fans-brain  "We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance"  http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/we-are-nowhere-close-to-the-limits-of-athletic-performance  "To Understand Religion, Think Football"  http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/to-understand-religion-think-football-rp  "There Is No Scientific Method"  http://wmbriggs.com/post/19505/  "We're all self-correcting...", by @ mattstat  "After Babylon"  http://www.puffpuffproject.com/languages.html  "2.678 living languages in the world placed in their birthplace" "The economic impact of universities: Evidence from across the globe"  http://www.eua.be/Libraries/nrc-activities/valero-amp-mimeo-2016_the-economic-impact-of-universities---evidence-from-across-the-globe.pdf  via  http://www.blog-illusio.com/2016/08/quel-est-l-impact-economique-des-universites.html  ht @ pygeoffard  "The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial"  https://theconversation.com/the-galileo-gambit-and-other-stories-the-three-main-tactics-of-climate-denial-63719  "What if medals were awarded in proportion to a sport’s popularity?"  http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-countries-medal-in-the-sports-that-people-care-about/ "Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor"  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature19085.html  "Science is increasingly complex, and collaborative research is still being written and published using old tools"  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/how-to-bring-science-publishing-into-the-21st-century/  "Seas aren’t just rising, it’s worse than that. They’re speeding up"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/10/seas-arent-just-rising-scientists-say-theyre-speeding-up/  see also  http://www.nature.com/articles/srep31245  "The House of Cards d’Hillary"  http://www.dedefensa.org/article/the-house-of-cards-dhillary  "Connected World: Untangling the Air Traffic Network"  http://www.martingrandjean.ch/connected-world-air-traffic-network/  by @ GrandjeanMartin  ht @ rekacewicz "Fox News generated 35% of Facebook interactions on posts about US election"  https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/fox-news-is-winning-the-us-presidential-election-on-facebook/s2/a662154/  by @ MohamedBlmz "Being ‘job ready’ is not the purpose of university science degrees"  https://theconversation.com/being-job-ready-is-not-the-purpose-of-university-science-degrees-63711  "Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half"  http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/  Drivers of Income Inequality using Panel VARs with Heterogeneous Dynamics  http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp16160.pdf  "Life Expectancy vs. Health Expenditure" ht @ MaxCRoser Russian Self-Driving Car (alpha version, or sort of)  http://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/763110593100382209/video/1  "Donald Trump and the Limits of Data Journalism"  http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/donald-trump-and-the-limits-of-data-journalism "Europe's banks have had a rough year. Yet a true banking union is also deeply flawed"  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-09/the-big-idea-that-won-t-fix-europe-s-banks  by @ tylercowen  "Economics Without Math Is Trendy, But It Doesn't Add Up"  http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-08/economics-without-math-is-trendy-but-it-doesn-t-add-up  by @ Noahpinion  "How the contemporary art boom is hurting the bottom line"  https://theconversation.com/museum-economics-how-the-contemporary-art-boom-is-hurting-the-bottom-line-58619 "Beatles Songs by Sentiment"  http://duelingdata.blogspot.fr/2016/08/beatles-sentiment-analysis_8.html "Big pharma, big data, même combat"  http://blog.mondediplo.net/2016-08-08-Big-pharma-big-data-meme-combat  "Which Countries Have Dominated the Summer Olympics?"  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/08/sports/olympics/history-olympic-dominance-charts.html  ht @ recifs "Facebook Removes Potential Evidence of Police Brutality Too Readily"  https://theintercept.com/2016/08/08/facebook-removes-potential-evidence-of-police-brutality-too-readily-activists-say/  Les Avengers, nés à Marseille en 1916,  http://www.lasardineduport.fr/marseillais-imagine-avangers-avant-stan-lee  ht @ baroug "A key purpose of a PhD is to destroy a young person’s ability to enjoy leisure"  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/workload-survival-guide-for-academics  "From medical treatment to diet and lifestyle choice: how to spot unreliable health research"  https://theconversation.com/from-medical-treatment-to-diet-and-lifestyle-choice-how-to-spot-unreliable-health-research-63572  "People who read books live longer lives, study says"  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/read-books-live-longer/  see  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.07.014 "L'empreinte écologique : un indicateur ambigu"  https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00519544/  ht @ thi_loup  "First Maya tomb and hieroglyph panels found in Belize tell story of iconic civilisation"  http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/largest-mayan-tomb-hieroglyph-panels-found-belize-tell-story-iconic-civilisation-1574082  "« Teach for France », un danger pour l’école publique"  http://www.humanite.fr/teach-france-un-danger-pour-lecole-publique-613350 (paywall) via  https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/la-revue-de-presse/la-revue-de-presse-09-aout-2016  "When Does Education Level Matter in Data Science?"  http://www.7wdata.be/data-analysis/when-does-education-level-matter-in-data-science/ ht @ KirkDBorne "Physics of gymnastics"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/sports/physics-of-gymnastics-uneven-bars-explained-by-a-professor/2016/08/06/68b24db4-5b4f-11e6-8b48-0cb344221131_video.html "Pokémon Go marque une étape de plus vers la société de surveillance en rendant amusante… la perte de vie privée"  http://www.lactualite.com/societe/pokemon-go-bouffe-vos-donnees-personnelles/  "Do Your Friends Actually Like You?"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/do-your-friends-actually-like-you.html  (spoiler: a lot of them don't)  http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151588 "No psychoanalyzing Donald Trump"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/07/the-american-psychiatric-association-reminds-its-doctors-no-psychoanalyzing-donald-trump/?tid=sm_tw  "What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?"  https://theconversation.com/what-if-intelligent-machines-could-learn-from-each-other-60102  "Sinkholes et dolines"  http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/en-images-sinkholes-ou-dolines-ces-trous-geants-qui-engouffrent-tout_1802852.html "Minsky's Many Moments"  https://www.ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/minskys-many-moments  by @ econarjun  "Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behaviour"  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1093/oxrep/gri020  "Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?"  http://tertilt.vwl.uni-mannheim.de/research/WomenDecember08.pdf  "Deworming Delusions and the flimsiness of ‘evidence-based policy’"  http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/deworming-delusions-and-the-search-for-scientific-certainty/  see also  http://blog.givewell.org/2016/07/26/deworming-might-huge-impact-might-close-zero-impact/  ht @ cblatts  "What is the efficient-markets hypothesis and how good a working model is it?"  http://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2016/video/are-markets-efficient  "Popcorn: critical temperature, jump and sound"  http://emmanuelvirot.free.fr/virot2015popcornjump.pdf  ht @ MarcAbrahams reminds me of many books I bought recently  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955912/?page=1  ht @ MarcAbrahams "So long, Marianne: Leonard Cohen writes to muse just before her death"  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/07/so-long-marianne-leonard-cohen-writes-to-muse-just-before-her-death?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other   https://youtu.be/tQ4M2wsTgYA  "It Seems Factual, But Is It? Effects of Using Sharp versus Round Numbers in Advertising Claims"  http://business.camden.rutgers.edu/files/Schindler-Yalch-2006.pdf  "Bank runs aren't madness: This model explained why "  http://review.chicagobooth.edu/magazine/summer-2014/bank-runs-arent-madness-this-model-explained-why  (back in 2014) ht @ dg_risk  "Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/us/politics/think-tanks-research-and-corporate-lobbying.html?_r=0  "The World's Biggest Asshole" ht @ tylercowen   https://youtu.be/TeVLxcekEsw  "Alcohol Consumption in Relation to Average Annual Temperature"  http://statpedia.com/stat/Alcohol_Consumption_in_Relation_to_Average_Annual_Temperature/SyCE3cGK "Time Discounting and Economic Decision-making Among the Elderly"  http://www.nber.org/papers/w22438 unwilling to price nature  http://evonomics.com/if-we-say-nature-is-priceless/  the best protection we have against it being packaged up, owned, bought, sold or used up? "Can’t Understand Why Trump Is Winning? Here’s What Cognitive Science Says"  http://evonomics.com/no-one-knows-why-trump-is-winning/  "Many of the laws of economics are far more like the rules of a game than like the laws of nature"  http://evonomics.com/rewrite-the-rules-invisible-hand/  "Do Markets Make Us Fair, Trusting, and Cooperative or Bring out the Worst in Us?"  http://evonomics.com/do-markets-make-us-fair-trusting-joseph-henrich/  "Learning Deep Genera,ve Models", @ rsalakhu's  slides  http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rsalakhu/talk_Montreal_2016_Salakhutdinov.pdf  "Slow motion increases perceived intent"  http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/07/27/1603865113.full  via  http://www.businessinsider.de/study-finds-slow-motion-video-can-lead-to-bias-2016-8?r=US&#38;IR=T  about perception of crimes captured on video "Scientific literature: Information overload"  http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7612-457a  "What Julian Assange’s War on Hillary Clinton Says About WikiLeaks"  https://theintercept.com/2016/08/06/accusing-wikileaks-bias-beside-point/  On French Terrorism  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36978516  On "libertarianish "  https://medium.com/@s8mb/im-a-neoliberal-maybe-you-are-too-b809a2a588d6#.j2nqzc7pt  "3 things can be said about neoliberalism, none of which I’d expect past me, or the average libertarian to endorse"  http://bensouthwood.tumblr.com/post/68356441500/neoliberalism  "The Economics of Rights: Does the Right to Counsel Increase Crime?"  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2810046  ht @ tylercowen  "About 6900 people died in police custody in Texas in 2005-2015"  https://exploratory.io/viz/hideaki/23c7ee5c68b1?cb=1470306156631 "The Psychology of Human Misjudgment"  http://web.archive.org/web/20151004200748/http://law.indiana.edu/instruction/profession/doc/16_1.pdf  by Charlie Munger, see also  https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d#.n103ayqyc  on interesting "models" "Was the Rise of Neoliberalism the Root Cause of Extreme Inequality?"  http://evonomics.com/rise-of-neoliberalism-inequality/  "Internet trolls are more abusive when using their real names"  http://globalnews.ca/news/2855416/forget-anonymity-internet-trolls-are-more-abusive-when-using-their-real-names-study-finds  so forget anonymity, ht @ recifs  "Evolution of an Accidental Meme: How one little graphic became shared and adapted"  https://medium.com/@CRA1G/the-evolution-of-an-accidental-meme-ddc4e139e0e4#.yfpein8dk "Massacres de masse, violence, terrorisme et quelques antécédents américains"  https://theconversation.com/massacres-de-masse-violence-terrorisme-et-quelques-antecedents-americains-63070  ht @ monolecte  "A Matching Algorithm to Alleviate the Refugee Crisis"  https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/op-eds/2016/08/05/an-algorithm-to-alleviate-the-refugee-crisis  ht @ cdb_77  "La France compte cinq fois plus de chômeurs partiels qu’avant la crise de 2008"  http://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/0211177568321-la-france-compte-cinq-fois-plus-de-chomeurs-partiels-quavant-la-crise-de-2008-2018346.php &#160; "I'm a serious academic, we should not have to parade ourselves on social media to (…) be considered enthusiastic"  https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/aug/05/im-a-serious-academic-not-a-professional-instagrammer "A black woman called 911 because she was afraid of a police officer"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/05/social-worker-calls-911-because-shes-afraid-of-a-police-officer-he-then-violently-arrests-her/?utm_term=.ba8b547c66c3  (unfortunately, not a very good idea) "Remonter le Temps"  https://remonterletemps.ign.fr/map/basic?x=-1.677990&#38;y=48.114165&#38;z=15&#38;layer1=GEOGRAPHICALGRIDSYSTEMS.ETATMAJOR40&#38;layer2=GEOGRAPHICALGRIDSYSTEMS.MAPS&#38;mode=vSlider  Rennes, 1820-1866 vs. actuel via @ seanlahman  : Mixed marriages: How many people marry someone from a different political party?  http://53eig.ht/295DbZq   NA  RT @ AcademicsSay  : I'm not procrastinating. I'm facilitating the democratized disruption of hegemonic academic narratives via social media.… "What makes a mass murderer different to a terrorist?"  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/04/terror-and-rage-what-makes-a-mass-murderer-different-to-a-terrorist  "Donald Trump’s love affair with polls is definitely over"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/paloma/the-daily-trail/2016/08/04/the-daily-trail-donald-trump-s-love-affair-with-polls-is-definitely-over/57a3cf3dcd249a7e29d0cf79/ "Une ville ne se dévoile pas au premier venu il faut savoir la conquérir pour qu’elle se laisse doucement découvrir"  http://blog.courrierinternational.com/entre-montagnes-et-mers/2016/08/04/les-faces-cachees-de-hong-kong/ on the "Origins and Globalization of Traffic Control Signals" in the U.S.  http://sites.tufts.edu/carscultureplace2010/files/2010/09/McShane-traffic-signals-1999.pdf  ht @ jrmdns "Is an algorithm any less racist than a human?"  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/03/algorithm-racist-human-employers-work  "Qu’est-ce que le bien commun ?"  http://la-bas.org/la-bas-magazine/textes-a-l-appui/noam-chomsky-qu-est-ce-que-le-bien-commun  (un nouvel essai de Noam Chomsky) "Chain Reaction: How Blockchain Technology Might Transform Wholesale Insurance"  http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/financial-services/pdf/how-blockchain-tecnology-might-transform-insurance.pdf  "Those who deny the housing crisis can no longer conceal their idiocy"  https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/aug/05/those-who-deny-the-housing-crisis-can-no-longer-conceal-their-idiocy-resolution-foundation?CMP=twt_gu  interesting article on the housing crisis "Vaccines are not associated with autism" (using meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies)  https://autismoevaccini.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/vaccines-are-not-associated-with-autism.pdf  ht @ AndrewHires  "Using machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields"  http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/4/12369494/descartes-artificial-intelligence-crop-predictions-usda "Why Democracy Requires Trusted Experts"  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-democracy-requires-experts-by-jean-pisani-ferry-2016-08  by @ pisaniferry "Professorial salaries and research performance"  http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gep/documents/papers/2016/2016-13.pdf  via  http://voxeu.org/article/professorial-salaries-and-research-performance "Political leanings of American professors"  https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2016/07/29/political-leanings-of-american-professors-robhosking/ "Is Prediabetes An Epidemic Or A Creation Of Drug Companies?"  http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2016/08/04/is-prediabetes-an-epidemic-or-a-creation-of-drug-companies/#716fd0e91891  "Americans Weigh 15 Lb. More Than They Used To (but they aren't getting taller)"  http://time.com/4435152/obesity-overweight-height-americans/  "Ages by sport &#38; gender in the olympics"  https://statsinthewild.com/2012/07/09/olympics-boxplot/  ht @ StatsbyLopez "Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children"  http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1508749  via  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/health/dust-asthma-children.html  "Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know?"  http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/19/whos-the-first-person-in-history-whose-name-we-know/  (spoiler: it's Kushim, and he was not a king) "Making Games with Python &#38; Pygame"  https://inventwithpython.com/makinggames.pdf  "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python"  https://inventwithpython.com/inventwithpython_3rd.pdf  "Teach your Kids to Code"  http://file.allitebooks.com/20150810/Teach%20Your%20Kids%20to%20Code.pdf  "Python for Kids"  http://raspbian.serveblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/python_for_kids.pdf  "How One Journalist Uses Social Media to Get Inside the Minds of ISIS"  http://www.wired.com/2016/08/rukmini-callimachi-new-york-times-isis/  ht @ goulu "The court system remains a system that was designed by lawyers with the expectation that there would be lawyers"  http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/05/11/3777026/civil-courts-poor-people/  " There’s no way to hire professors in computer science and expect them to stay put for three or four decades"  https://theconversation.com/its-not-corporate-poaching-its-a-free-market-for-brilliant-people-61846  "Many pediatric clinical trials go unpublished or unfinished"  https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/08/04/pediatrics-clinical-trials-data/  ht @ pash22  "Information Networks: Evidence from Illegal Insider Trading Tips"  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2511068  see also @ tylercowen's   http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-04/insider-trading-isn-t-what-you-see-in-the-movies  “We depend on numbers to make sense of the world, and have done so ever since we started to count.”  https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/08/every-number-tells-a-story/  "There has never been a painter quite like Jheronimus van Aken"  http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/mystery-of-hieronymus-bosch/  Slave population of the U.S., 1861  https://i.reddituploads.com/de98ad8fb2e34eef935fbe0a9899a2 "Vers un état d’exception permanent"  http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/01/GANDINI/54469 "A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality"  http://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-to-statistics-on-historical-trends-in-income-inequality  ht @ rekacewicz "Fail-Safe Nuclear Power"  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-power/  ht @ recifs  "La leçon de Pokémon Go au secteur de la e-santé"  http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/cercle/cercle-159383-pokemon-go-marque-un-tournant-dans-la-e-sante-et-la-prevention-medicale-2018314.php  "Universities are tracking their students. Is it clever or creepy?"  https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/aug/03/learning-analytics-universities-data-track-students?CMP=twt_gu  An expert appreciation of “the first modern sci-fi movie”, Stanley Kubrick’s “audacious epic” 2001  http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/2013/space_odyssey  répartition des notes, au bac, par @ coulmont En Belgique, "les maths sont le cauchemar des jeunes francophones"  http://www.lecho.be/economie_politique/belgique_general/Pourquoi_les_maths_sont_le_cauchemar_des_jeunes_francophones.9794661-4003.art  "How Liberalism in America Became Synonymous with its Antithesis"  https://uneasymoney.com/2016/07/31/how-liberalism-in-america-became-synonymous-with-its-antithesis/  "Make Algorithms Accountable"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/opinion/make-algorithms-accountable.html  "The Case for More Government and Higher Taxes"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/business/economy/rethinking-the-role-of-government-in-society.html  "Social media have not destroyed the public meeting. They have done the opposite"  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/new-big-thing-politics-old-style-public-meeting-labour-battleground-live-events  The ‘luxury effect’, in which wealthier neighbourhoods are more biologically diverse, has been observed in nature"  http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/8/20160322?cpetoc  "Les villes prennent le pouvoir: Les mégalopoles, nouveaux moteurs de l’économie mondiale"  http://www.courrierinternational.com/grand-format/cartographie-les-villes-prennent-le-pouvoir via @ NateSilver538  new economic data will affect our polls-plus model, just as new polls can  http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#plus "Why fighting climate change won't destroy the economy"  http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/environment/2016/04/13/why-fighting-climate-change-wont-destroy-economy/81928138/  "The precautionary principle alone would tell us that we do not want to learn what costs climate change will incur"  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/the-sticky-truth-about-economic-growth-and-climate-change/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_ENGYSUS_BLOG  Et encore des records,  http://information.tv5monde.com/en-continu/temperatures-gaz-effet-de-serre-et-montee-des-eaux-des-niveaux-records-en-2015-121111 College Ranking  https://data-slinky.shinyapps.io/BumpCharts/  (with R-Shinny, see  https://github.com/data-slinky/college_rankings  ) (avec beaucoup de retard)  http://culturevisuelle.org/viesociale/3760  "Illustration non contractuelle" "Manipulation of the news for propaganda purposes is not the prerogative of the west’s enemies"  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/02/russian-propaganda-western-media-manipulation "Drivers still liable in accidents, even in near driverless cars" (in Canada)  http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/insurance/drivers-still-liable-accidents-even-near-driverless-cars-says-law-firm-1004097572/ "Words", by Christoph Niemann  http://www.itsnicethat.com/news/christoph-niemann-words-book-020816 "The Drugs Won: The Case for Ending the Sports War on Doping"  https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/the-drugs-won-the-case-for-ending-the-sports-war-on-doping  "Skype is “acceptable for mixed communication when you’re about to get married”"  http://static1.squarespace.com/static/534bf494e4b06a4afe162e21/t/579916cae3df28ec6e335d53/1469650703805/StudioD-VoiceofSaudiYouth-EthnoShare.pdf  A Deep Dive into Saudi Culture "Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominee"  https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/760535450226491393  just because it's alwys good to keep that in mind (ht @ abunchofdata  ) see  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/elections/nine-percent-of-america-selected-trump-and-clinton.html "25 years of arXiv"  http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v12/n8/full/nphys3862 "Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysisDraft"  http://randomwalker.info/publications/OpenWPM_1_million_site_tracking_measurement.pdf  via  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/02/battery-status-indicators-tracking-online  "Vienna’s ’wild settlers’ kickstart a social housing revolution"  https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/08/story-cities-18-vienna-austria-cooperative-self-build-settlers-social-housing-revolution  ht @ rekacewicz "The Cost of Being Obese" (via  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/why-rich-women-dont-get-fat/358643/  ) "Why Can’t Hillary Clinton Stop Lying?"  http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/why-hillary-clinton-keeps-lying/493841  "Obama to Leave the White House a Nerdier Place Than He Found It"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/politics/obama-to-leave-the-white-house-a-nerdier-place-than-he-found-it.html?smid=tw-share  ht @ pash22  "I'm afraid my crippling shyness will ruin my career"  https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/jul/29/im-afraid-my-crippling-shyness-will-ruin-my-career?CMP=share_btn_tw  good thing, a lot of us feel that way in academia "Colocs en stock, traduction infidèle"  http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/livres/272037/traduction-infidele  (je découvre Tintin en québécois) "Why You Should Care about High-Dimensional Sphere Packing"  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/why-you-should-care-about-high-dimensional-sphere-packing/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MATH_BLOG  following  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/multidimensional-sphere-packing-solutions-stack-up-as-a-major-mathematical-breakthrough/  by @ evelynjlamb  "A blockchain is just a parliament without a parliamentarian"  http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6581.html  another great post by @ interfluidity  "Amid declining book sales, university presses search for new ways to measure success"  https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/01/amid-declining-book-sales-university-presses-search-new-ways-measure-success  "The global impact of air conditioning: big and getting bigger"  https://theconversation.com/the-global-impact-of-air-conditioning-big-and-getting-bigger-62882  "Contribution of air conditioning adoption to future energy use under global warming"  http://www.pnas.org/content/112/19/5962.abstract  on the complex relationships we have with the things we collect,  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/24/arts/design/the-keeper-collectors-reader-submissions.html?_r=0  ht @ tylercowen  "Is It Just Me, Or Is the World Going Crazy?"  https://markmanson.net/crazy-world  on the attention economy, and cameras Parenting and Game Theory  http://smbc-comics.com/comic/parenting-game-theory "Politicians Need to Understand This Computer Science Concept Better"  http://nautil.us/blog/politicians-need-to-understand-this-computer-science-concept-better  "Everything Is Broken"  https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1  "It’s hard to explain to regular people how much technology barely works" "Love in Translation: Learning about culture, communication, and intimacy in my husband’s native French"  http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/08/lauren-collins-learns-to-love-in-frenchIt was a bit long... but that's probably because I read a lot while I'm on holidays.....