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This week, the most important news is undoubtly"Randomly generated mathematics research papers!" http://thatsmathematics.com/b102 … "Mathgen paper accepted", see also "Nonsense paper accepted by mathematics journal" http://marginalrevolution.com/… via @adelaigueI also read a very interesting post"Publication incentives" http://www.quantumforest.com/publication-incentives/ … by @zentree (following http://www.quantumforest.com/academic-publication-boycott/ … )among many others"Challenging the integrity of research" http:// blogs.nature.com/2012/10/17/challenging-the-integrity-of-scientist?WT.ec_id=NATUREjobs-20121018…"We need a method of assessing the support of research if we want to change the ‘publish or perish’ culture" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impaciences/2012/10/17/voytek-fishy-citations-brainscanr/ …[notes] "R for SAS and SPSS users"https:// science.nature.nps.gov/im/datamgmt/statistics/R/documents/R_for_SAS_SPSS_users.pdf …"status and math in economics" http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/status-and-math-in-economics/ … see also the paper http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/MPRA_paper_41363.pdf …"What is math, and why should we use it in economics?" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/what-is-math-and-why-should-we-use-it.html …[video course] "Beyond Computation: The P vs NP Problem" by Michael Sipser http://youtu.be/msp2y...[free ebook] "Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning" by David Barber http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff//textbook/090310.pdf … via @DataJunkie"What JP Morgan’s release of VaR has in common with sex and computer viruses" http://www.nickdunbar.net/what-jp-morgans-release-of-var-has-in-common-with-sex-and-computer-viruses/ …"forecasting the Presidential election using regression, simulation, or dynamic programming"  http://punkrockor.wordpress.com/orecasting-the-presidential-election-using-regression-simulation-or-dynamic-programming/ …via @lamclay"Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It?" http://www.popsci.com/science/se/2012-08/out-wild?single-page-view=true…"How close are pairwise and mutual independence?"http:// legacy.lclark.edu/pairwise2.pdf … via @statfr"Homogeneous record of Atlantic hurricane surge threat since 1923" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/10/10/1209542109.full.pdf+html … via http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22382-tidal-records-expose-surge-in-hurricanes.html …"Blogging" http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/oct/15/blog-action-day-power-of-we … "Too often dismissed as narcissistic echo-chambers, blogs are the ultimate form of collegiality""All you scientists frustrated by the rejection of your papers from journals, relax. Rejection is rare" http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/10/scientists-may-feel-rejected-but.html?ref=em …"Beware, win or lose: Domestic violence and the World Cup" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/13.2012.00606.x/abstract … in @signmagazine"what is the optimal way to find a parking spot?" http://  punkrockor.wordpress.com/what-is-the-optimal-way-to-find-a-parking-spot/ … by @lamclay with several articles early this week on the Nobel price (in Economics)"I never, never in my life took a course in economics" (Lloyd Shapley) http://larspsyll.wordpress.com/i-never-never-in-my-life-took-a-course-in-economics/ …"A Nobel for work that affects your daily life" http://www.cbsnews.com/8302-57532993/a-nobel-for-work-that-affects-your-daily-life/…"To win the Nobel Prize in Economics, it helps to wield math. Lots of it" (posted before the annoncement) http://qz.com/to-win-the-nobel-prize-in-economics-it-helps-to-wield-math-lots-of-it/ … via @karlfischavec plusieurs articles en francais"Alvin Roth et Lloyd Shapley, Nobels d'Economie 2012" joli papier d'@adelaigue sur http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/2/10/15/alvin-roth-et-lloyd-shapley-nobels-deconomie-2012.html…"Le Prix Nobel d’économie 2012 : ni prix, ni Nobel, ni économie ?"http://legizmoblog.blogspot.fr/le-prix-nobel-deconomie-2012-ni-prix-ni.html … par @blogizmomais aussi"Le douloureux calcul de la valeur de la vie" http://www.slate.fr/story/63485/qaly-calcul-valeur-vie … quand un  problème classique pour les actuaires intéresse maintenant les économistes cf http://www.nber.org/11405..., http://ideas.repec.org/v21y2002i2p253-270.html … pour une méta analysis ou http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PMC1650128/ …quand un brillant statisticien (Paul Deheuvels) prend la parole sur l'étude de Séralini, http://leplus.nouvelobs.com/c61194-l-etude-de-seralini-sur-les-ogm-pomme-de-discorde-a-l-academie-des-sciences.html … via @GolumModerne @virg_garin"Ne comptez pas trop sur les JT et les chaînes d'info pour délivrer un discours critique sur l'économie" sur http://television.telerama.fr/po...rquoi-ma-tele-est-elle-liberale,87925.php#xtor=RSS-18  "Ces économistes qui monopolisent (toujours) les débats"http://www.acrimed.org/article3904ml …«Chocolatine ou Pain au chocolat ?» (en France) http://blog.adrienvh.fr/cartographie-des-resultats-de-chocolatine-ou-pain-au-chocolat/ … via @AdrienneAlix @le_luk @romainmenard @blogizmo @tomroud"Universités du Québec: le spectre du sous-financement, ou quand la quantité remplace la qualité http://www.iris-recherche.qc.ca/blotre-du-sous-financement …" RT @Mlle_Titam"idiots" http://dirtydenys.net/in/2012/10/10/idi… par Denys Bergrave via @Vicnent @pegobry @bzavier @adelaigue(en moyenne) "Twitter est une jeune femme américaine" http://www.ledevoir.com/soc/361401/twitter-est-une-jeune-femme-americaine …Did I miss something ?