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Some posts and articles worth reading"There is a vast discrepancy between how we see the world when giving gifts and when receiving them" http://timharford.com/2014/12/you-really-really-shouldnt-have%E2%80%89-%E2%80%89-%E2%80%89-%E2%80%89/ … by @TimHarfordvia @DannyQuah How to ruin a world-leading nation: First, reject the educated and talented who come to you http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article1498758.ece …"Student loan that are 90+ days delinquent or in default" (and other loans http://www.newyorkfed.org/householdcredit/2013-Q4/HHDC_2013Q4.pdf …) ht @yannbisiou"Minions Go Caroling" https://youtu.be/wTGOK9VqOxA "Should theories be testable?" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.fr/2014/12/should-theories-be-testable.html … by @Noahpinion"Percent of people reporting exciting sex life" http://www.vox.com/2014/5/7/5662608/in-different-area-codes … (I leave it here, for my dull French friends)"Language games and expectations of "doing nothing"" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2014/12/language-games-and-expectations-of-doing-nothing.html …via @zerohedge The Annotated History of US Dollar Debauchery http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-18/annotated-history-us-dollar-debauchery …"What are the personality traits of today’s data scientists?" http://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/en_gb/image/other1/events/WMAGDS/DataScientist-survey-report-web%20FINAL.pdf …"Glum Christmas? Not on Google" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/21/sunday-review/glum-christmas-not-on-google.html …"A Resurgence of Neural Networks in Machine Learning" http://datascience.berkeley.edu/machine-learning-neural-systems/ … ht @AlexanderD_Beck"Many believe dysfunctional behaviour in finance is due solely to distorted incentives" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8d3b623e-8099-11e4-872b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3MZj46Lz6 …"The days of the year when Americans are most drunk" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/20/the-days-of-the-year-when-americans-are-most-drunk-visualized/ … by @pbump"Predicting the Next Big Thing: Success as a Signal of Poor Judgment" http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/pa/ssrn-id1621800.pdf … via @pmarcaTonight will (almost) be the longest night in the history of Earth. http://www.vox.com/2014/12/21/7424371/winter-solstice … Actually, it was in 1912... but still...Grades in Poland (score to pass, 30%) http://de.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/27dx4q/distribution_of_results_of_the_matura_high_school/?utm_content=buffer00a7c&#38;utm_medium=social&#38;utm_source=twitter.com&#38;utm_campaign=buffer … ht @maxcroser"The dynamics of correlated novelties" http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140731/srep05890/full/srep05890.html … by @stevenstrogatz ht @GuyBirkin"People around you control your mind: The latest evidence" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/12/04/people-around-you-control-your-mind-the-latest-evidence/ …Snowman in the mall (ht @9gag)"Amazon 'suppresses' book with too many hyphens" http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/dec/18/amazon-book-hyphens-graeme-reynolds-high-moor-2-moonstruck … 100 hyphenated words in 90000 ‘impacted the readability’ of the book"Americans are trading sleep for work, and it’s literally killing us" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/15/americans-are-trading-sleep-for-work-and-its-literally-killing-us/ … ht @fdastous"Message to Booleans: It’s an additive world, we just live in it" http://andrewgelman.com/2014/12/18/key-part-statistical-thinking-use-additive-rather-boolean-models/ …The two Georges were more Victorian than Victoria and made 1950s Britain into a nation that was prudish, dingy and insular http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/20/george-v-david-cannadine-vi-philip-ziegler-review-review …"Sleep Disruptions Around The World" https://jawbone.com/blog/2014-year-review/ … by @brianwilt"The NIPS Experiment" http://mrtz.org/blog/the-nips-experiment/ … "Half the papers appearing at NIPS would be rejected if the review process were rerun"I miss Montréal http://www.mtlblog.com/2014/12/montreal-police-spotted-in-leopard-print-tights/# …et un peu de lecture en françaisintéressant http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2014/12/22/comment-la-taxe-sur-les-transactions-financieres-est-torpillee-par-la-france_4539162_4355770.html … sur la taxe sur les transactions financières par @dathilde mais il faut lire aussi http://www.olivierfaure.fr/2014/12/19/courrier-a-manuel-valls-pour-la-taxe-sur-les-transactions-financieres/ …"Les Français sont-ils les plus gros dormeurs?" http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Societe/Les-Francais-sont-ils-les-plus-gros-dormeurs … par @Data_Match(après, on repasse au "par centaines") via @econoclaste "Consommation : avant Noël, des études bidon par milliers" http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2014/11/18/consommation-avant-noel-des-etudes-bidon-par-milliers_4524606_4355770.html …"Les lourdes conséquences des prêts étudiants aux Etats-unis" http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20140610trib000834453/les-lourdes-consequences-des-prets-etudiants-aux-etats-unis.html …"Quand est ce que l’on est en déflation?" (la chronique de @XTimbeau) http://www.alterecoplus.fr/economie/xavier-timbeau/quand-est-ce-que-lon-est-en-deflation-201412181203-00000448.html … ht @martin_anotavia @Padre_Pio @LouisCalvero: l'incroyable carte des tranchées de 14-18 http://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/img/article/0814/Unknown-6.jpeg …"La productivité à l’heure des Big Data" http://internetactu.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/12/17/la-productivite-a-lheure-des-big-data/ …via @Nniina_ , "Les distributions de dividendes plombent l’investissement des entreprises" http://alternatives-economiques.fr/blogs/chavagneux/2014/03/10/les-distributions-de-dividendes-plombent-l%E2%80%99investissement-des-entreprises/ …encore 4 jours pour (re)lire "Le Père Noël supplicié" http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/levi_strauss_claude/pere_noel_supplicie/Levi-Strauss_Pere%20Noel_1952.pdf … par Claude Lévi-Strauss, en 1952Did I miss something?