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Some interesting posts and articles this week,"Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past" http://wired.com/wiredenterprise/…"Unmitigated Gauls: Pardon my French about French economics" http://web.mit.edu/krugman/… via alea_ and adelaigue"Why your 8-year-old should be coding" http://venturebeat.com/2013/… via ‏abmathewks or, same message with a DIY strategy, http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/4733 "The Science of What We Know &#38; Dont Know About Data Visualization" via KirkDBorne and eagereyes http://blogs.hbr.org/cs…[notes] "Statistical Learning Theory and Sequential Prediction" by Rakhlin &#38; Sridharan: http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~rakhlin/… via mdreid"The rate of false positives found in lung cancer surgery is 9.1% in the U.S. and 24% in Hawaii" http://medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ … via medskep"Science’s Cult of Calculation" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/… "doing the math is often easier than generating ideas""The entire culture in bank executive management is one of irresponsibility" http://pieria.co.uk/articles/… via Ian_Fraser by Frances_Coppola"Two versions of Goodhart's Law" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ru/… via @MarkThoma and econoclaste on Noahpinion's blog"The ‘laws of economics’ don’t exist" http://blogs.reuters.com/edgy-optimist/… via ritholtz"A Bayesian Algorithm for Reconstructing Climate Anomalies in Space and Time" http://martintingley.com/1.pdf (1) and http://martintingley.com/2.pdf (2)"Inform pedestrians, not drivers" http://people.few.eur.nl/kapoor/… via MargRev"New Method Proves—Again—Climate Change Is Real" http://scientificamerican.com/is-real…"Awkward Science Stock Photography" http://jacksofscience.com/chemistry/…[RIP] George E P Box (1919−2013) on robjhyndman's blog (sorry for the delay) see also the interesting interview http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/…"Don’t Listen to E.O. Wilson" http://slate.com/articles/… "Math can help you in almost any career" via alejandroadem"The retreat of virtue has become a plague of our times. Greed is legitimate." http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… via GamineLise"A Data-Crunching Prize to Cut Flight Delays" http://technologyreview.com/news/513141/a-…"The devil’s defense of Bitcoin volatility" http://marginalrevolution.com/…"Bitcoin crashes, losing nearly half of its value in six hours" http://arstechnica.com/business/… by cfarivar"Request for Information Regarding an Initiative to Promote Student Loan Affordability" http://regulations.gov/#!doc… via http://federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/…"Great, now engineers think that they are economists too" http://pandodaily.com/ …"Since 1790, the United States has suffered 16 banking crises. Canada has experienced 0." http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/… see http://frbatlanta.org/documents/…"The top 20 data visualisation tools" http://netmagazine.com/features/… via EdwardTuftea very nice tweet"People found guilty of not using punctuation deserve the longest sentence possible." by sixthformpoetand the only picture I want to share this weekDeir ez-Zor, Syria, last week http://letemps.ch/… … (and jbdba)et comme à chaque fois, quelques billets et articles en français,En France, "Déclarations de patrimoine des élus" http://huffingtonpost.fr/… "Regardez comme je suis pauvre" par StanKraland via AymericPontier (on évitera de faire un rapprochement avec http://francesoir.fr/actualite/…)"Quelques enseignements de l’affaire des paradis fiscaux" http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/… par nb58"« Droit à l’oubli » sur Internet : la fin de la généalogie et des archives ?" http://rue89.com/rue89-culture/…[RIP] RT SH_lelabo Misère de la dépêche AFP : "Raymond Boudon (…) l’un des grands noms de la sociologie de l’individu…" http://liberation.fr/societe/…intéressant "Travail et organisation dans le secteur public : la fascination du privé ?" http://nrt.hypotheses.org/416  par nrtravailDid I miss something ?