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Some writings worth reading, here and there"Simple nonlinear least squares curve fitting in …" http://walkingrandomly.com/?p=5254  in R by @walkingrandomly but also Python, Matlab, Julia, Mapple…"How would you define a bubble? And based on that definition, are we in one now?" http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-12… by @ritholtz"Three unblinded mice" http://andrewgelman.com/2013… via @statisticsblog"Trusted (And Free) Search Engines For Scientific and Academic Research" http://emergingedtech.com/2013/12/top… via @olivier_frey"Contagious Diseases in the United States from 1888" http://nejm.org/doi/full/10… with R code, http://tycho.pitt.edu/ress...  see"Ordinary Least Squares is dead to me" http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2… via @statisticsblogindeed, "Economists Are Different From You and Me" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/1… via @olivier_frey"Pornhub Traffic Trends Driven by Worldwide Events" http://pornhub.com/insights/pornhub… e.g."Think Bayes" http://it-ebooks.info/book/  "Bayesian Statistics in Python""Higher education and the revolution ahead" http://med.stanford.edu/smili/support/FINAL…"Ultra-Low Interest Rates: Who Wins? Who Loses?" http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.ca/201…"Fixing What's Wrong With Economics 101" http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-12… via @moorehn and @M_C_Klein"Gender Inequality in Film" http://nyfa.edu/film-school-blog/… e.g. "30.8% of speaking characters are women""Walter Bagehot (1826–77) was far more than just an economist" http://wilsonquarterly.com/bo… (another book on my wish list)"Abrupt climate change is not only imminent, it’s already here" http://scientificamerican.com/arti… via @VisionsCarto"The rise of West German wage inequality" http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/… via @tylercowen see"Mathematicians and physicists are often religious even mystical; biologists much less often; economists very seldom" http://books.google.ca/…"The perils of public speaking" http://timharford.com/2013/1… by @TimHarford via @SylvainCF[Advent calendar] "24 days of R" on http://pirategrunt.com/category/r/ "Selection paradoxes of Bayesian inference" http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Re…"How I Cured My Impostor Syndrome" http://hopejahrensurecanwrite.com/2013/… by @HopeJahren"Academia is funny.  At the beginning you keep asking yourself, “What if I am not really any good?”  Then once people finally start admitting that you are good you ask yourself, “What if I’m not really as good as they are finally admitting that I am?”  Now don’t get me wrong — I’m not judging — I used to ask these questions too.  A lot.  My own favorite version was always, “Why am I so much more famous than I deserve to be while not being nearly as famous as I want to be?”  But then I got over it and stopped giving so much of a shit, which makes me cured.  Here are six things that helped, in case you’re interested." [to be continued...][free ebook] "Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything" http://hortonworks.com/wp-content/up…"The Great Stratification" http://chronicle.com/article/The… "How would the diorama represent the professor of 2020?" via @sarahkendzior"Computer says no" http://economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2159… "Hedge funds looking to spot and ride market trends are hoping for a fresh start""We blog and unlike many of our colleagues we don't need to be convinced that it is worthwhile" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/b… via @Geopolitics2020[mergers] "How the 4 largest banks in America got too big to fail" (via @MotherJones's http://motherjones.com/politics… )et un peu de lecture en français,"Assurer sa visibilité de jeune chercheur" http://enthese.hypotheses.org/855  par @enthese via @NinaMitamona"La soif du sociologue pour l’irrégularité statistique" https://google.ca/url=www.lemonde.fr… par @coulmont"L'emploi scientifique se dégrade et ses perspectives sont catastrophiques. Plusieurs Universités sont en déficit..." http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/…"Et si toute œuvre ou donnée immatérielle produite grâce aux deniers publics étaient publiés sous licence libre ?" http://pcinpact.com/news/84695…"le code source ouvert (...) les pratiques des hackers doivent permettre à chacun de conquérir sa propre autonomie" http://homo-numericus.net/article313.html "Formellement et à l’échelle de l’individu, le code source ouvert du logiciel libre, les pratiques des hackers, la structure distribuée d’Internet doivent permettre à chacun, pour peu qu’il le veuille, de conquérir sa propre autonomie et de prendre une place sur le réseau et dans les communautés de pratique proportionnelle à son investissement et son degré de maîtrise technique. Dans la réalité, nous sommes majoritairement réduits au rang de consommateurs de services informatiques, devenus dépendants de boîtes noires, sous licence libre ou non, qui nous contrôlent plutôt que nous les contrôlons. Dans les deux cas, c’est une ignorance des logiques sociales qui conduit à un résultat pratique inverse du principe théorique affiché." [à suivre...]Did I miss something?