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(picture via http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2013/...)Some writings worth reading"It's a pretty subtle distinction, but if you're nerd enough to be here then you're nerd enough to care so keep reading" http://nerdplusart.com/type-terminology-smackdown/ …"The Bubble in Bubbles" http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-19/the-bubble-in-bubbles.html … by @ritholtz"More on “data science” and “statistics”" http://andrewgelman.com/2013/11/19/22182/ …"Why are you rarely at the edges of the page? Why are you rarely in the middle of the page? Why, Waldo" http://slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/11/…"The effect of climate shocks on local-level conflict" http://didattica.unibocconi.it/mypage/… very interesting analysis, via @cblatts"The Country Comparator" http://par-la-fenetre.net/OCDE/"Homogenization of scientific computing, or why Python is steadily eating other languages' lunch" http://talyarkoni.org/blog/2013/11/18/… via @conjugateprior[mooc] "Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period" http://slate.com/articles/life/education/2013/11/… via @puautomne"Too-Big-to-Fail: The Role of Metrics" http://minneapolisfed.org/news_events/pres/ … via @markthoma"Climate by Numbers" http://newyorker.com/reporting/2013/ … "Can a tech firm help farmers survive global warming?"by @specterm"What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success." http://aeaweb.org/atypon.php… via @ivanoransky"Why ask Why? Forward Causal Inference and Reverse Causal Questions" http://nber.org/papers/w19614 "Statistically derived contributions of diverse human influences to twentieth-century temperature changes" http://nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/…"Myths, facts, and presumptions about obesity" http://nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/ … via @StuartJRitchie"Pentagon's Bad Bookkeeping" http://reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/ … (part 1) and http://reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/… (part 2)“Are all significant p-values created equal?” http://psg-mac43.ucsf.edu/ticr/syllabus/courses/4/2003/11/13/Lecture/readings/Browner%20and%20Newman.pdf … in 1987, via http://andrewgelman.com/ "You Broke Peer Review. Yes, I Mean You" http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/youbrokepeerreview/ … via @coulmont"Rather, fixing peer review has to begin with you, the reviewer, telling yourself “maybe I would have done it another way myself, but it’s not my paper.” You need to adopt a mentality of “is it good how the author did it” rather than “how could this paper be made better” (read: how would I have done it). That is the whole of being a good reviewer, the rest is commentary. That said, here’s the commentary." [to be continued...][maths] "Hans Follmer: The Coin-Tossing View of Finance: Successes, Pitfalls, and Exercises in Mathematical Humility" http://fields.utoronto.ca/video-archive/… and "Rene Carmona: Mean Field Games: Where do we Stand 7 years Later?" http://fields.utoronto.ca/video-archive/…"How big is infinity?" http://skullsinthestars.com/2013/…"Use table and figure legends to convey the message you want, not just describe the contents." http://labandfield.wordpress.com/2013/11/14… via @thelabandfield"Defending the Morality of Markets" http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2013/11/…"The Co-Villains Behind Obesity's Rise" http://nytimes.com/2013/11/10/business/the-co-villains-be…"No TV Show Has Ever Loved Math as Much as Futurama" http://wired.com/underwire/20…"What's the future of inference?" http://simplystatistics.org/2013/11/1…"Are bankers wasting a good crisis" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.co.uk/2013/1… by @TCJUK"You can (try to) read the report here.  What grabbed my attention is the emphasis Deloitte places on "culture", and so I read on. The first finding is that 65% of the sample believe there is a problem, but only half of these see an issue at their own institution.  Three quarters think that compensation was a significant factor in creating the problems, but only a quarter felt their own institution was at fault. At first sight these results seem wrong, there is agreement on the issue but most people are not taking responsibility.  With a bit of thought though, the results are coherent, if a third of the respondents worked at problem banks it is not unreasonable that two thirds of respondents recognise the fact.  However given the breadth of problems in UK banking - from leverage based speculation, through LIBOR/FX fixing, money laundering at overseas branches,  to retail mis-selling - I think the lay observer of UK banking has a right to raise their eyebrows at the results. When asked to identify "What went wrong" bankers identified the main causes as poor leadership and incentives, both issues that are within banks' abilities to control and Deloitte sees these issues as being cultural.  Externally, bankers identified issues with light touch regulation but accepted that it was difficult for the regulator to retain the right skills to challenge the banks. I don't disagree with these observations but I do think they highlight a significant issue.  The system appears to be based on carrots and sticks: rational utility maximisers will attempt to break the system and so have to be constrained by rules and sanctions.  I believe this carrot-stick dynamic is fundamentally unstable, not least because the people chasing the carrots are often faster than those wielding the sticks (the issue of the regulators competencies in complex, dynamic markets)" [to ve continued...]"The Wall Street Code: HFT Whisteblower Haim Bodek on Algorithmic Trading" http://nakedcapitalism.com/2013/11/l … by @yvessmith[video] time-lapse map of the nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998 https://youtu.be/9U8CZAKSsNA  looks like in "War Games", no?"How we think and how we spread news on social media" http://niemanlab.org/2013/11/sharing-fast-and-sl…"Wall Street Isn’t Worth It" http://jacobinmag.com/2013/11/w…"50 years ago 180,000 whales disappeared without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why" http://psmag.com/environment/the-s…"On the Path to Personalization" http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11… (the first in a series of posts on "recommendations engine")[academic blogging] "Opening up your research: a guide to self-archiving " http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2… via @zetwitty"Shiller vs Fama: What’s A Bubble?" http://npr.org/blogs/money/2013/11/01/2423… via @ritholtz's http://ritholtz.com/blog/20…"Sorry, but making a profit off something that's useless to society is not morally superior to helping others" http://salon.com/2013/11/16/ayn_rands…[academics] "Down With 'Service,' Up With Leadership" http://chronicle.com/article/Down… via @NGhoussoub"The new Noah's Ark: beautiful and useful species only" http://tandfonline.com/doi/ab… and http://tandfonline.com/doi/abs… via http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0…[map] "If states had boundaries based on watersheds, this is what the U.S. would look like" http://wapo.st/18m2xKl [free ebook] "Theory of Decision under Uncertainty" by Itzhak Gilboa http://econ.hit-u.ac.jp/~kmkj/uncertainty/…"America Has More Prisoners Than High School Teachers" http://huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/us…"A Talk With Lars Peter Hansen, Nobel Laureate" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/a-talk … via @deagiles and @markthoma (interesting thoughts on statistics)"More Freedom on the Airplane, if Nowhere Else" http://nytimes.com/2013/11/17/business … by @tylercowen"Why do journalists prefer Twitter to Facebook?" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/11/… by @ezraklein via @greglemarchand"This is how the middle class dies, not with a bang, but a forced squeeze" http://nytimes.com/2013/11/15/opinion… via @paslap" Impacts of climate change observed in global precipitation patterns" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/11/i… see"Jensen inequality" http://djalil.chafai.net/blog/2013/11/17…"Coca-Cola's Plan To Keep You From Drinking Water" http://huffingtonpost.com/andy-bellatti/… via @raulpacheco see also Coke, and water (in 2004) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/… igNobel in Chemistry that year http://theguardian.com/science/2004/… via @MarcAbrahams"Economics explains our world – but economics degrees don’t" http://ft.com/cms/s/74cd0b94-4de6-11e3… via @MarkThoma[climate] "World faces more ‘perfect storms’" http://climatenewsnetwork.net/2013/11… via @VisionsCarto[free ebook] "Computational and Algorithmic Linear Algebra" http://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/fac/books/murty/…"Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S." http://books.google.ca/books?id=kPGJUiUCJZkC… via http://metro.us/boston/lifestyle/career/2…Interesting question "Will Your Mutual Fund Die Before You Do?" http://thinkadvisor.com/2013/11/14/will-y… via @wglabinski"Of the funds ... in 1995, less than 40% still existed in 2013. The remaining funds closed/merged into other funds." [to be continued....]"Public debt and economic growth: There is no ‘tipping point’" http://voxeu.org/article/debtt … always look at the data !"Climate Change: Is The Weather Permanently Altering?" http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/23465874… wait, that was in 1921... via https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/11/1…"Fama, Shiller and Billy Beane – A Nobel Prize in Baseball" http://marketmonetarist.com/2013/10/16/fama-…"Why No Bankers Go to Jail" http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-17/w…"The role of uncertainty in time discounting." http://nytimes.com/2013/11/17/opinion/sunday/y… via @tylercowen see also @freakonometrics http://psych.upenn.edu/kable_lab/Joe… and http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1053811913…"algorithm that accurately determines mobile phone users’ modes of transportation" http://universe.hiit.fi/tmd-peaks/  via "their phones’ accelerometers" via @moorejh see alsoet un peu de lecture (ou d'enregistrements en français)Le journaliste face au "populisme scientifique" https://soundcloud.com/speakscience/sets/interv… avec @sfoucart"Temps de la recherche, temps politique et temps médiatique sont-ils compatibles ?" http://wikiradio.cnrs.fr/broadcast/358 … via @SimonJumel"Le logiciel libre : un dispositif méritocratique ?" http://nrt.revues.org/pdf/1070 "Le diplôme de référence dans le monde, c'est le doctorat" http://lemonde.fr/orientation-scolaire/article/… (redécouvert via @OsezAna ) tellement vrai !Dans les sondages, qu'est-ce qui importe ? la question ou les réponses ? (via http://ozap.com/actu/zapping-dsk-12… )Did I miss something?(une petite pensée pour les lecteurs de la presse française pour conclure)