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Two interesting posts, especially since I just finnish my lecture on predictive modeling at the UQAM actuarial program,"Predictive Modeling—You Mean Actuarial Wizardry?" in CASact's newletter casact.org/newsletter…"Actuaries Must Convince CEOs of Benefits of Predictive Modeling" on CASact's website casact.org/press…with - as usual - a lot of interesting posts and articles, here and there,"R allows statisticians to do intricate and complicated analyses without knowing the blood and guts of computing system" nytimes.com/techn …"Program or Be Programmed" rushkoff.com/pro… via "Teach U.S. kids to write computer code" cnn.com/opin…from annmariastat's blog"Economic Models as Analogies" economics.sas.upenn.edu/2… by Gilboa, Postlewaite, Samuelson and Schmeidler"Should we go back to teaching programming?" thejuliagroup.com/2891  via annmariastat"Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching" nber.org/w17786"Do Economists Lie More?" by López-Pérez and Spiegelman uam.es/depecono …Who's contributing to wikipedia ? male, single, no kids, via srqm.tumblr.com source of that was s survey commissioned by WMF. Here's the results bit.ly/VGXwB3&#160;big data according to dilbert.com/sd …"The 'flipped academic', as he sees it, is an academic who informs first and publishes later" guardian.co.uk/hig…"The VIX – Is It Telling Us Anything? At All?" pragcap.com/th…remember Keynes' warning "the markets can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent" via qfinance.com/anth…"Here's Why You Won't Finish This Article" online.wsj.com/art … (at least the first part is worth reading)"What Cascade Theories Don't Tell Us" whimsley.typepad.com/… on whimsley's blog"Batman to the rescue!" sciencedirect.com/sci…"protective effects of parasocial relationships with muscular superheroes on men's body image""Did risky mortgage lending cause the financial crisis?" noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/did… via nereidadin"Does homeownership influence stockholding?" voxeu.org/article/dg … via econoclaste with working paper available here cepr.org/pu3.asp …on "correlation between a country’s chocolate consumption and population’s cognitive function" nejm.org/05… via forbes.com/larry… and other effects of chocolate replicatedtypo.com/ploa…Jeff Leek’s "Data Analysis" youtu.be/...  forthcoming on coursera.org/cou… and "Computing for Data Analysis” by Roger Peng (on rstats) youtu.be/..."The economic case of higher education" treasury.gov/c… see also the report treasury.gov/cocu …"How Many (programming) Languages Should You Master?" codeconquest.com/h…"Why Academics Should Blog…" by Jenkins Henry henryjenkins.org/why…"The Data Vigilante" theatlantic.com/ma…"NYU Student dronestream Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike Has Revealed A Disturbing Trend"  businessinsider.com/uss… via cblatts"More Babies, Please" nytimes.com/opi… with detailed answer sbronars.wordpress.com/tyl… Delayed Childbearing versus Declining Fertility[music] tonight' playlist, Godspeed You Black Emperor, soundcloud.com/… via cstrecords amazing first title of their new album"Banking Industry Squirms Over European Rate Probe" online.wsj.com/a…"The Science of Our Optimism Bias and the Life-Cycle of Happiness" brainpickings.org/i…"Are scientists obligated to call out the bad work of other scientists?" blogs.scientificamerican.com/doin… by docfreeride via sciamblogs drugmonkeyblog"A Giant Statistical Round-up of the Income Inequality Crisis in 16 Charts" theatlantic.com/bu…Financial crisis? "What Iceland did was right." imf.org/exte … see also nytimes.com/opini…"The Folly of Scientism" by Austin L. Hughes thenewatlantis.com/pub…Finance 101, day 2, dilbert.com/stri00…Gambling andrewgelman.com/her … "There are four ways to get fired from Caesars..." on StatModeling's blog"How to win at forecasting, a Conversation with Philip Tetlock" edge.org/con… via adelaigue"What a Big-Data Business Model Looks Like" by by R “Ray” Wang blogs.hbr.org/c … via osezana"'Choice Under Uncertainty': A Misnomer" ineteconomics.org/b … by raphaelechappe via rationalitelimitee.wordpress.com/choi…"algorithms play an ever-larger role in how we get news and information, it’s important to realize the ways that bias.." niemanlab.org/nick…"Why do we see unilateral action on climate change?" voxeu.org/why… with the working paper online lse.ac.uk/Gr…Hurricane Sandy storm track maps with R, gallery.r-enthusiasts.com/grr…"how to make sure bank shareholders, rather than taxpayers, lose out if banks fail" bankofengland.co.uk/p… via bbc.co.uk/ne2 …"Cross comparison and modelling of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America" arxiv.org/1661  via moneyscience"Rhetoric in Economics" by Itzhak Gilboa paristechreview.com/rhe … via AXAResearchFund"I didn't even know data can be real" dilbert.com/s01…"le cumul des mandats" par obouba sur les données de RegardsCitoyens blogs.univ-poitiers.fr/o… voir aussi cepremap.ens.fr/dS27 …"La recherche universitaire est-elle condamnée?" par Claude Hillaire-Marcel ledevoir.com/socion… via renaudjf"Climat : la crise économique a bon dos" lemonde.fr/18...  via tomroud"Quand les scientifiques se mettent à bloguer…" universcience.fr/fr…"Accepte ton destin: le geek est fort en toi" par marc_rr  toutsepassecommesi.cafe-sciences.org/cc… via ArattaCrise financière? "l'Islande a fait ce qu'il fallait faire, contrairement aux autres pays" das-baham.com/m870…"Qu’est-ce qu’un blog scientifique ?" jadelemaitre.fr/…"Combien de temps passe-t-on à faire de la recherche ?" par tomroud (dont je partage le constat, et le décompte) sur tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/com…"Why Blog ?" (en français) par André Gunthert press.openedition.org/174 Notes de cours de Michel Lubrano sur les tests de racine unité vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/c …MT obouba "ils sont cons à Rennes : mener 2-0 et finir le match à 1-1"Did I miss something ?