freakonometrics

freakonometrics, 12 hours ago to random French

"The ABC of mobility" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272#s0030 (Data for nearly 800 cities across 61 countries is used to model car use and its relationship with city size and income)

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freakonometrics, 1 day ago to random French

John Oliver explainaing why public libraries are under attack, in the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42xZB80sZaI

freakonometrics, 1 day ago to random French

Montréal, 20:00 vs 21:00

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freakonometrics, 1 day ago to random French

"We asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future..." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair "They are terrified, but determined to keep fighting"

freakonometrics, 2 days ago to random French

with a in sensor in a house, in the French Alps, +3°C on average over the past ten years https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/65032 (published in 2022)

freakonometrics, 5 days ago to random French

"Peu importe la question, peu importe la réponse, il faut qu'il y ait un moment." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTO_pp9NwZY 😳 (je crois que la dame est journaliste, ou est présentée comme telle... ça me conforte un peu dans l'idée qu'il faut vraiment se méfier quand on est sollicité par un(e) journaliste, parce qu'on n'a probablement pas les mêmes objectifs)

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freakonometrics, 5 days ago to random French

"Thumb Nation: How We Learned to Play With Our Fingers" https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/thumb-nation-how-we-learned-to-play-with-our-fingers/ ht @josquindebaz "The evolution of digital ergonomics can inform us about the decisions of the design of video games in both hardware and software that lead us to the modern layout of controls. To trace this story, we need to look at the changes in the joystick and the button through the years of the electronics industry"

freakonometrics, 6 days ago to random French

"Dans bon nombre de débats publics ou d’émissions traitant d’informatique, on invite exclusivement des promoteurs ou détracteurs de telle ou telle technologie. Or, les États, et notamment la France, payent des gens dont le métier est précisément d’analyser les algorithmes et leurs limites : les (enseignantes-)chercheuses et (enseignants-)chercheurs en informatique. Peut-être faudrait-il plus les inviter et les écouter ?" https://theconversation.com/les-algorithmes-des-boites-noires-vraiment-226529 par @MonniauxD

freakonometrics, 7 days ago to random French

"Finding the money" https://findingmoneyfilm.com

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freakonometrics, 7 days ago to random French

"Peu d'objets sont aussi intrigants pour les archéologues que les dodécaèdres gallo-romains découverts à travers l'Europe, au nombre d'environ 130 à ce jour. En effet, les spécialistes en savent si peu sur ces artefacts mystérieux à douze côtés de forme pentagonale, presque toujours percés d'un trou, que les théories sur leur fonction et/ou leur signification se multiplient à mesure que de nouveaux sont décelés." https://www.geo.fr/histoire/l-enigme-archeologique-autour-des-dodecaedres-romains-est-elle-sur-le-point-d-etre-resolue-norton-disney-rite-religion-superstition-220021

freakonometrics, 7 days ago to random French

"Millions of students in all public schools across the Philippines were ordered to stay home Monday after authorities cancelled in-person classes for two days. The main advice for everyone, everywhere has been to avoid outdoor activities and drink plenty of water, but the young and the elderly were told to be especially careful. Cambodia this year is facing the highest temperatures in 170 years" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/southeast-asia-school-cancellations-philippines-myanmar-1.7187816

freakonometrics, 8 days ago to random French

Jamie McGregor Smith (https://www.jamiemcgregorsmith.com/) Illuminates Europe’s Most Striking Brutalist Churches in ‘Sacred Modernity’ https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/jamie-mcgregor-smith-sacred-modernity/

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freakonometrics, 9 days ago to random French

"Quickly turning what had been an orderly demonstration into a violent melee, a peaceful protest Friday was reportedly interrupted by a swarm of aggressive, black-clad militants. According to bystanders, the protesters had been marching and chanting without incident when they were suddenly set upon by the hostile militants who wielded blunt weapons and concealed their faces." 🤣 https://www.theonion.com/peaceful-protest-interrupted-by-swarm-of-aggressive-bla-1819580274

freakonometrics, 10 days ago to random French

"(almost) Every North American NHL Player's Birth City" https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1cfn8b5/almost_every_north_american_nhl_players_birth/

freakonometrics, 12 days ago to random French

freakonometrics, 13 days ago to random French

"One thing that these models definitely do, though, is transfer control to large corporations. The amount of computing power and data required is so incomprehensibly vast that very few companies in the world have the wherewithal to train them. To promote large language models anywhere is privatisation by the back door. " https://danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcherism.html

freakonometrics, 17 days ago to random French

When Do We Stop Finding New Music?
When does our taste in music stagnate? https://www.statsignificant.com/p/when-do-we-stop-finding-new-music

freakonometrics, 18 days ago to random French

"Beaucoup de profs, comme je l’ai dit, ont la volonté de faire réussir leurs élèves. Tout le champ lexical autour de “l’égalité des chances” permet de reporter sur ces derniers la responsabilité de leur propre échec. Bavardages, indiscipline, manque de travail ou de concentration, sont autant de facteurs qui servent à déterminer qui peut prétendre à une bonne orientation et qui n’est pas fait pour l’école. Comprenez : qui doit partir en apprentissage dès 15 ans" https://www.frustrationmagazine.fr/corps-enseignant/

freakonometrics, 19 days ago to random French

"Il y a cent ans, Paris accueillait déjà les Jeux olympiques. Qu’en disait la presse de l’époque. Elle s’interrogeait : où va-t-on héberger les athlètes et les visiteurs ? Et elle fulminait contre les hôteliers et leurs hausses de prix indécentes qui jetaient les étudiants à la rue." https://www.liberation.fr/sports/jeux-olympiques/jo-de-paris-1924-pour-loger-les-athletes-on-commence-par-expulser-des-etudiants-20240419_3YOSFZSTJRBXLJKSYQ3CLZPBPA/

freakonometrics, 20 days ago to random French

"Car, dirait Palmiro Togliatti, « rien ne ressemble plus à un caméléon » que le fascisme. Il est fondé sur un substrat national spécifique et il module l’homme providentiel, la gloire passée, la violence physique et organisée, la définition d’ennemis objectifs, le nationalisme identitaire, le populisme, le primat d’un peuple à arracher des influences internationalistes, la délégitimation des sources factuelles et la création d’une réalité parallèle." https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chroniques/810833/chronique-aube-fascisme

freakonometrics, 20 days ago to random French

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/ (via https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/world-press-photos-2024/ "World Press Photo Contest Documents War, Migration, and Devastation") 😍

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freakonometrics, 20 days ago to random French

"Why are American roads so dangerous?" https://www.ft.com/content/9c936d97-5088-4edd-a8bd-628f7c7bba31?accessToken=zwAGFnJtT4Y4kdOck22XUIhO3dOovWKPfHu6MQ.MEUCIBkfu5DL_JKcrv8OdlpB5PngLDlwuzURI8dyxjgeKu4rAiEAoY4QysRo2BqGMLG7tYej43V8PKmM5m5YIt2LXzlzl1A&sharetype=gift&token=bc9cc6e0-4532-44d4-a75d-2752c850cfc6 "Bad driving is probably playing a bigger role in the fatality rate than larger cars and longer journeys"

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freakonometrics, 20 days ago to random French

Saturday, finally...

freakonometrics, 24 days ago to random French

"We Need To Rewild The Internet" https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ "Information and decision-making power now flowed straight to the top. Decades later when the first crop was felled, vast fortunes were made, tree by standardized tree. The clear-felled forests were replanted, ready to extend the boom. Readers of the American political anthropologist of anarchy and order, James C. Scott, know what happened next."

freakonometrics, 24 days ago to random French

Urban cycling has always been a combat sport https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/woman-practicing-cutting-off-a-head-while-riding-a-bicycle-news-photo/90772704