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A series of interesting writings, that are worth reading, discovered this first part of the week,"Being economical with the data" http://timharford.com/… by @TimHarford"Prime Numbers Hide Your Secrets-What happens when you enter your credit card number online?" http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/…  (very interesting article) via @NGhoussoub"Which times tables do kids find the hardest?" http://guardian.co.uk/datablog/… I can confirm ! (tonight's homework of my son)"How many tanks? MC testing the GTP" http://statisticsblog.com/… on @statisticsblog's blog"Should English be the lingua franca of academe? At one Italian university the question has sparked a court battle" http://chronicle.com/article/..."Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like 'qeadzcwrsfxv1331' " http://arstechnica.com/security/…"On “Geek” Versus “Nerd”" http://slackprop.wordpress.com/… nice!"When It Starts to Rain — Do You Run?" http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/…Why Can’t Canada Win the Stanley Cup?" http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/… by @natesilver"Is theoretical physics a science, or “another kind of storytelling”?" http://aeonmagazine.com/world-views/ …"Who Is the Best Player Ever? A Complex Network Analysis of the History of Professional Tennis" http://plosone.org/article/… via @Anne_Lavigne"Arteries of the world in Tweets" http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/… by @revodavid and @miguelrios's https://twitter.com/miguelrios/340506256534024193 (20 lines of R code) see"Asking for a Raise? Avoid Round Numbers" http://online.wsj.com/article/… based on http://gsb.columbia.edu/ideasatwork/… via @margrevSix myths of Big Data, with @katecrawford "Why Big Data Is Not Truth" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/…"what S.&#38;P. 500 companies paid in corporate income taxes from 2007 to 2012" http://nytimes.com/interactive/… see also"James Surowiecki on the rise of insider trading, and how to prevent it" http://newyorker.com/talk/financial/… via @TimHarford @NewYorker"What Can Stop Obesity?" http://themonthly.com.au/issue/…"The History of Programming Languages" via http://blog.newrelic.com/…"Student Loan Debt Is a Beast" http://motherjones.com/politics/… via @ilovecharts see"29 of the world’s largest bike-sharing programs in one map" http://qz.com/89019/… via @ilovecharts"SAS Dominates Analytics Job Market" http://r4stats.com/…"The state of U.S. immigration" http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/… by @eschow see"Rethinking macroeconomic policy: Getting granular" http://voxeu.org/article/… via @MarkThoma"Alpha Dads: Men Get Serious About Work-Life Balance" http://businessweek.com/articles/… see"A glance at the colorful research of an under-publicized scientist" http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/… John Trinkaus (discovered via @PasseurSciences)"The Challenge of Negative Results" http://scilogs.com/communication_breakdown/… by @ShipLives"Are Fox News Polls Biased?" http://econometricsbysimulation.com/… by Francis Smart via @RbloggersPaul Embrechts' "Four theorems and a financial crisis" http://sciencedirect.com/… via @msgbi and @EmanuelDerman"A Bayesian Approach for Predicting the Popularity of Tweets" http://arxiv.org/1304.6777  by @zlisto via @ldupin and http://wired.com/wiredenterprise/…[maths geek] "The Convergence of a Random Walk on Slides to a Presentation" http://math.cmu.edu/~bwsulliv/…‎ (can be watched https://youtu.be/XIz1XcPpcx4 )ainsi que quelques écrits en français,"Programme de mathématiques, baccalauréat scientifique, en France 1972" http://djalil.chafai.net/blog/… avec e.g. la loi faible des grands nombres ou l'inégalité de Binaymé-Cheycheff"1+2+3+4+5+6+7+… = -1/12 !" http://sciencetonnante.wordpress.com/…"«Un monde fini», ou peut-on penser le monde sans croissance économique?" http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/… par @IanikMarcil"La France a la certitude que du gaz sarin a été utilisé en Syrie" http://lemonde.fr/...  cf le dessin de @chappatte"L’université peut être un lieu d’une très forte violence sociale" http://letudiant.fr/educpros/entretiens/… via @JChGeslot"Coupe le cake" http://eljjdx.canalblog.com/… sur l'excellent blog d'@ElJj"Comprendre les réseaux personnels" http://sms.hypotheses.org/125  (via @obouba)"La mobilité des enseignants-chercheurs ; l'attraction parisienne" http://coulmont.com/blog/… par @coulmont"Le recrutement des universitaires français : de la question du localisme à celle de l'inertie spatiale" http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/… par @obouba"Who is the best?" http://eric.cabrol.free.fr/… (1/3) http://eric.cabrol.free.fr/… (2/3) http://eric.cabrol.free.fr/… (3/3) par @CireLorbac"revenus nets mensuels par type de ménage" (en France) http://lemonde.fr/politique/ … via @samuellaurentDid I miss something ?