freakonometrics

freakonometrics, 7 months ago to random French

"Faites vos premiers pas avec LaTeX, un système de préparation de documents conçu pour produire des documents de grande qualité" https://www.learnlatex.org/fr/
(car il parait qu'il existe encore des gens qui n'utilisent pas latex pour écrire leurs documents)

freakonometrics, 5 months ago to random French

"Pour rappel, cet algorithme, construit à partir de l’analyse des centaines de données que la CAF détient sur chaque allocataire, assigne un « score de suspicion » à chaque allocataire. Ce score, mis à jour chaque premier du mois, est compris entre zéro et un. Plus il est proche de un, plus l’algorithme juge qu’un·e allocataire est suspect·e : un contrôle est déclenché lorsqu’il se rapproche de sa valeur maximale" https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/11/27/notation-des-allocataires-lindecence-des-pratiques-de-la-caf-desormais-indeniable/ et surtout https://git.laquadrature.net/la-quadrature-du-net/algo-et-controle/caf

freakonometrics, 5 months ago to random French

idiot detection system...

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freakonometrics, 11 months ago to random French

« L’inattention, c’est fou, 50 % de mon temps de travail, c’est de réveiller les élèves. Écoutes-tu ? Je suis obligée de leur dire de m’écouter. La moitié de la classe n’est pas là » https://www.lapresse.ca/contexte/2023-05-28/education/qu-est-ce-qui-cloche-avec-nos-enfants.php « Aujourd’hui, c’est rare que je voie des enfants heureux. C’est fou, hein ? Je leur demande s’ils sont heureux, ils répondent ‟bof”… C’est d’une lourdeur… »

freakonometrics, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random French

Just what part of "easier and more convenient" don't you get ?

freakonometrics, 7 months ago to random French

Tous les ans, c'est pareil, je suis fasciné par ces relents nationalistes dans les descriptions des prix Nobels comme cet article qui caractérise les chercheurs et chercheuses par leurs nationalités, alors que sur l'image, seule leur affiliation universitaire fait mention d'un pays...

freakonometrics, 7 months ago to random French

"America’s relationship with the car isn’t a love affair—it’s an arranged marriage foisted by industry." https://nautil.us/my-3-greatest-revelations-3-410146/ “America has a love affair with the car.” That’s an adage you often hear to explain the origins of our car-dominated landscape: our suburbs, our drive-throughs, our high-velocity “stroads.” We’ve surrendered our towns, cities, and ecosystems to the automobile, this thesis goes, because we helplessly adore it, and the freedom and mobility it provides us.

freakonometrics, 6 months ago to random French

"The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the past half-century" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5 via @chrabier "The number of science and technology research papers published has skyrocketed over the past few decades — but the ‘disruptiveness’ of those papers has dropped (...) Other research has suggested that scientific innovation has slowed in recent decades" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3822691

freakonometrics, 4 months ago to random French

"Le smartphone a créé une rupture anthropologique dans le rapport à l’autre et à l’espace. Il suffit de regarder le trottoir de n’importe quelle ville du monde pour voir que les individus avancent tirés par leurs smartphones, se cognant les uns contre les autres. Prosternés devant leur écran, les visages disparaissent. Les enfants se retrouvent négligés par des parents happés par leur portable." https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/david-le-breton-avec-les-smartphones-la-conversation-est-ebranlee-pour-la-premiere-fois-dans-lhistoire-de-lhumanite-20240117_XPDXAXIBJVBBPDPGUBXDYEOAWY (moi je suis frappé par ces comportements dans les ascenseurs)

freakonometrics, 10 months ago to random French

En France, "train ou voiture ? Explorez l'option la plus rapide et la moins polluante pour partir en vacances" https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/tourisme-transport/train-ou-voiture-explorez-loption-la-plus-rapide-et-la-moins-polluante-pour-partir-en-vacances-1953056 par @tomfevrier

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freakonometrics, 11 days ago to random French

nice https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352485524001026 😍 ("an option to adjust for escalation (Genç et al., 2012a) as kindly but strongly suggested by one anonymous referee")

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freakonometrics, 20 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, 3 months ago to random French

je ne cesse de voir cette publicité dans les transports en commun parisiens, et je suis assez fasciné...
#JeuxOlympiques #RestezChezVous #CassezVous

freakonometrics, 1 year ago to random French

"Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common. But new tools show promise in tackling growing symptom of academia’s “publish or perish” culture" https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common "after screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%. Both numbers, which he and colleagues report in a (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.06.23289563v1) preprint posted on 8 May"

freakonometrics, 9 months ago to random French

"Qui peut encore embrasser la carrière d’enseignant-chercheur à l’université ? La question se pose alors que les portes apparaissent de plus en plus étroites pour des centaines de jeunes docteurs, soit bac + 8, qui voient les campagnes de recrutement se succéder sans jamais pouvoir accéder à un poste de titulaire dans un établissement." https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2023/08/10/une-entree-dans-la-carriere-universitaire-toujours-plus-entravee_6185034_4401467.html (ce qui m'étonne, c'est que peu envisage de quitter la France...)

freakonometrics, 5 months ago to random French

"The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation" https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/ via @marcrr

freakonometrics, 1 month 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, 5 months ago to random French

are there any good websites to travel accross Europe, taking into account night trains ? I plan to travel from Bruxelles to København in June, but I can't find much.... (e.g. the one below suggests a travel mainly during the night, but with 5 transfers.. during the night !). I mean night train where we sleep... #nighttrain

freakonometrics, 4 months ago to random French

Posting, on some mastodon instances...

freakonometrics, 11 months ago to random French

"Listening speaks to our intuition while reading promotes analytic thought" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36355770/ "It is widely assumed that thinking is independent of language modality because an argument is either logically valid or invalid regardless of whether we read or hear it. This is taken for granted in areas such as psychology, medicine, and the law. We demonstrate that thinking from spoken information leads to more intuitive performance compared with thinking from written information."

freakonometrics, 1 month ago to random French

Workshop in Corsica

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freakonometrics, 1 month 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, 5 days ago to random French

https://www.gocomics.com/speedbump

freakonometrics, 13 days 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, 3 days ago to random French

"As early as 1864, kids were flying "paper darts" that looked like what we call "paper airplanes" today. During the Civil War — yes, kids flew paper airplanes during the Civil War — Every Little Boy's Book gave kids instructions for making a paper dart that "makes a graceful curve in passing through the air." In 1881, as instructed in Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes, kids were told how to make a paper dart using "a piece of good stout paper."" https://www.vox.com/2015/4/28/8505377/paper-airplanes-history ht @temptoetiam