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This Halloween week, some writings worth reading"Does It Make Sense To Implement The Taleb Portfolio?" via @OsezAna (and @econoclaste too) http://randomroger.blogspot.ca/2013/10/…"Planned Obsolescence, as Myth or Reality" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/ …[R] "Introduction to R workshp" http://meetup.com/Montreal-R-User-Group/… Dec. 10th, 10:00-17:00 by @RusersMtl"Must Attention Be Paid?" http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/ …"Earthquake in Canada: The Risk Realities" http://ibc.ca/en/Natural_Disasters/… via @Math_Boudreault and http://ibc.ca/en/Natural …"How was your Halloween?" by @phdcomicsvia @bengoldacre "Academics doing government work are leaned on to distort their results" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/…"Can’t Remember Your Password?" http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/… "Welcome to subconscious encryption, the ultimate private security""outside trading floors, business schools, banks and brokerage firms, bond dynamics are fairly obscure" http://nytimes.com/2013/07/21/your-money/…[icons] http://smithsonianmag.com/specialreports/ … "101 Objects that Made America"nice! @RaviMurugesan's feed-back on the @marindacos's "academic blogging" panel at the WSSF (with @llepape @gunthert) http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/…"If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes" http://thereformedbroker.com/2013/10/ … via @ritholtz"Six signs you’re reading good criticism of economics" http://jasoncollins.org/2013/10 … by @jasoncollins"Simply Statistics Unconference on the Future of Statistics" http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y4UJjzuYjfM&#38;feature=share …"Kludgeocracy in America" http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/… (I guess it could be applied elsewhere)"It is depressing how little outside economics most economists have read" http://fivebooks.com/interviews/… @JohnKayFT on Economics"Economics, good and bad" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/…"Want to be more creative? You're better off living like a health nut than a beat poet" http://inc.com/jessica-stillman/… ("more sleep, less coffee")via @NatureNews "Canadian researchers experience political interference (backed by survey)" http://nature.com/news/seven-days… see"So why do I care about open access, and why do I want other students to care about open access?" http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2… via @openscience"use Bayesian methods to resolve the current crisis of statistically-significant research findings that dont hold up" http://andrewgelman.com/2013/10/29/talk…"Evaluating evidence from published research" http://andrewgelman.com/2013/09/03/ … via @twssecn[epic fail] s http://etsy.com/listing/167282687/rip-lou-reed-shirt-silver-shirt… see"Against forecasts" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/2013/10/against…" A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths" http://theatlantic.com/health/archive/… (a bit scary after a minute or two, but awesome!)"The Future Fabric of Data Analysis" https://simonsfoundation.org/quanta/… by @JenLucPiquant"people with..." http://finalbossform.com/post/… (inspired by http://alexithymia-daily.tumblr.com/post/…)"Bubblegum Card Bubbles" http://belkcollegeofbusiness.uncc.edu/azillant/… via http://improbable.com/2013/10/21/…"Facebook Inc. is testing technology that would greatly expand the scope of data that it collects about its users" http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/…"What do economists do? PhD job market openings 2009-2013." http://chrisauld.com/2013/10/29/what… by @Chris_Auld seean interesting paragraph on 'which students have such a poor level' via http://skrive.it/article/11539/..., a review of Peter's Principle... the old-fashioned school system was an extension of the Peter Principle.  If the student failed a grade he had to repeat the grade, in other words he had to remain at his level of incompetence.  Obviously, school officials do not like this system as it shows an accumulation of incompetent students thus lowers the standards of the school.  Therefore, to avoid the accumulation of incompetents everyone was promoted.  The psychological justification of this policy is that it spares the painful experience of failure.  This is what the author calls hierarchical regression.Waouh http://adv-r.had.co.nz/memory.html  "Understanding how memory works in R" great page by @hadleywickham"Big Data" via @Raveline (and ‏@J_P_Boucher )et un peu de lecture en français,"Réflexions du soir sur la solvabilité et la mesure des risques..." http://actudactuaires.typepad.com/laboratoire/2013/10… par Fred Planchet"Ecotaxe, une affaire hallucinante" http://alternatives-economiques.fr/blogs/parienty/2013/11/01… via @TotoroInParis @adelaigue[slides] @gunthert sur cmt le droit d'auteur qui impose de faire de l'histoire de l'art sans images https://dropbox.com/s/ch15ug7ejozaxat/… via @RemiMathisDid I miss something?