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Some writings worth reading, this week,"Mathematical Truths Do Not Make Untrue Assumptions in Economics True" http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.fr/… via @adelaigue"Why are there so few people over 115 years of age?" http://rationaloptimist.com/blog/…"Academia's not-so-dirty secret" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/… by @franceswoolley via @adelaigue[free ebook] "Modeling Data With Functional Programming In R" http://cartesianfaith.files.wordpress.com/…"Embracing Wynne Godley, an Economist Who Modeled the Crisis" http://nytimes.com/… via http://enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/?p=3103 "Lehman: Too much junk paper, too much leverage, too little capital and zero risk controls" http://washingtonpost.com/business… by @ritholtz"The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In" http://nytimes.com/2013/08/11/magazine/… via @SocImages"It’s Not Too Early to Start Worrying About Banks Again" http://bloomberg.com/news/… via @ritholtz"The Claim: Identical Twins Have Identical DNA" http://nytimes.com/2008/03/… see http://dailymail.co.uk/news/… and http://telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/..."Median house price to earning" 15 years, in the U.K., by @resi_analyst via @tylercowen (similar to other countries?) see "Your Casual Acquaintances on Twitter Are Better Than Your Close Friends on Facebook" http://wired.com/opinion/2013/09/… via @sc_k"5 years after financial crash, many losers — and some big winners" http://latimes.com/business/ …"Analyzing bias in election polls with R" (in Germany) http://vis4.net/blog/posts/…"Former private banker: 'Making money is the easy part'" http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/…"Hotness-IQ tradeoff in academia" http://hardsci.wordpress.com/2013/09/… by @hardsci via @cfchabris and @michellenmeyer see"Why bother with public engagement?" http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/… by @hapsci"What Does a Scientist Want?" http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/…"More on long-term returns" http://economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/…[Stat oil] "Lenders are turning to social media to assess borrowers" http://economist.com/news/finance-and-economics…"Your Deadbeat Facebook Friends Could Cost You a Loan" http://motherjones.com/politics/…Reading a research paper, via @squartadoc @TheEvidenceDoc @picardonhealth"Understanding reported changes in median income" http://goodstatsbadstats.com/?p=1819 [IBNR] Great slides on "Reserving Methods Using Individual Claim-Level Detail" https://cas.confex.com/cas/clrs13… by @KatrienAntoniovia @mbusigin You can really ask http://wolframalpha.com/  just about anything now: http://wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Does+marsellus+wallace+look+like+a+bitch%3F … via @msgbi[Academia] with animated gifs http://proteas.microlab.ntua.gr/ksiop …"We regret to inform you that you paper has not been accepted" (for a postdoc)"We regret to inform you that you paper has not been accepted" (for a professor)"so, who will implement this?""Fitting the paper to page limit""Questions, after presenting a paper""How is your research useful ?""Windows user on linux server for the first time"`"Changing just a tiny bit in my LaTeX tabular"et un peu de lecture en français,"Ras le bol du "ras-le-bol fiscal" !" http://lemonde.fr/idees/article/…"Les agences de communication ont envahi les espaces de libre expression des médias Web" http://journaldunet.com/ebusiness/… et "Opération d'intox sur Internet" http://journaldunet.com/ebusiness/crm-marketing/…"Comment l’Etat saigne les universités françaises" http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/pascal-maillard/… via @MyScienceWork"Dis-moi combien d’amis tu as sur Facebook, je te dirai si ta banque va t’accorder un prêt" http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/09/… via @Cecile_JandauDid I miss something?