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freakonometrics

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Dad of three & born-again #mathematician. #Statistician, #economist, fellow #actuary & #data addict. Professor & researcher in #Montréal, Canada. Previously in Paris, Hong Kong, Leuven & Rennes. Full of 'satiable curtiosity.
#predictivemodeling #algorithms #ml #ai #fairness #discrimination #insurance

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"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

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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

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"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/

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"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/

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"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

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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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"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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Saturday, finally...

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"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."

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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

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it's more complex than a rotating hyperbolic paraboloid, right?

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Temperature in Montréal during the solar eclipse https://www.meteomedia.com/fr/nouvelles/meteo/previsions/eclipse-le-mercure-a-perdu-le-nord

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"'Des consommateurs aux collectivités et producteurs d’eau potable, des industriels aux agriculteurs en passant par les énergéticiens, toute la société commence à éprouver l’ampleur du problème. Pourtant, le gouvernement a renoncé à toute mesure de long terme" https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/04/08/le-deni-francais-face-aux-menaces-sur-l-eau_6226651_3232.html

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"Pour une bonne part des commentateurs, la valeur et l’intérêt d’une décision ou d’une déclaration dépendent plus de ses conséquences sur le landerneau politico-médiatique que de ses effets réels," https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/04/14/le-bavardage-politique-des-plateaux-etouffe-et-depolitise-les-preoccupations-environnementales_6227675_3232.html

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"There is no cloud, it's just other people's computers"

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The Yard-sale model or "Why the super rich are inevitable" https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/ ("Even with redistribution, the wealthiest person in the game is exponentially richer than the poorest. And this emerged out of complete luck. But imagine what would happen if we played this game with real people: Some of the wealthy players would inevitably argue that they deserve to be rich because they're better at guessing the result of a coin flip")

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"If you're an organ donor in the U.S., there's a 25% chance your kidney ends up in the trash" https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-stop-losing-17500-kidneys "The tech is so bad. The United States Digital Service found 17 days of downtime in recent years. Until recently, the algorithm that was protecting all organ donor patient information in the country, so STI status, mental health, every physical history, was from 1996. This is a fixable problem: it’s about the contractor, supply chain, it’s logistics, transparency"

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Workshop in Corsica

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"L’Université de Liège a demandé à ces parents l’intitulé de la thèse de leur enfant, et ce n’est pas gagné" https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/divertissement/video/l-universite-de-liege-a-demande-a-ces-parents-l-intitule-de-la-these-de-leur-enfant-et-ce-n-est-pas-gagne_231925.html (mais c'est beau)

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On m'envoie jeter un œil sur Opérations Poste, y a toujours des postes en maths app où on auditionne plusse de Pierre que de meufs.

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@krazykitty de mon côté, c'est surtout en maths fondamentales que j'ai vu des trucs assez incroyables... j'ai vu des chercheurs qui, en fin de carrière, n'ont jamais publié avec une femme (ou alors des étudiants)... il y a vraiment des études qui mériteraient d'être faites (si on avait le temps)

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"On sait que plus on dégrade les conditions d’indemnisation du chômage, plus on dégrade les conditions de négociation d’embauche et de salaire. C’est un signal envoyé aux personnes au chômage pour que, lorsqu’elles retrouvent un emploi, elles ne soient pas trop exigeantes sur les conditions de travail et le salaire. Mais c’est aussi un signal pour les salariés en poste" https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/03/assurance-chomage-cest-la-reforme-de-trop par @michaelzemmour

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"S’il était un personnage de BD, Gérald Darmanin serait peut-être le policier Dupont, dans Tintin. Ou Dupond, au choix. Il faudrait en tout cas mettre en avant, outre ses positions très à droite, sa manière de parfois faire n’importe quoi." (s'il y avait matière à rire, j'aurais mis 🤣 mais c'est tout sauf drôle) https://www.liberation.fr/politique/gerald-darmanin-plombe-une-operation-de-police-en-un-tweet-20240403_PVN6VUECV5BOXP7CTOAA5S7B2Q/

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"Too often, scientific research in any language other than English is automatically seen as second tier, with little consideration for the quality of the work itself. This harmful prejudice ignores the work of those involved, especially in the humanities and social sciences. It also profoundly undermines the global academic community’s ability to share knowledge with society." https://theconversation.com/english-dominates-scientific-research-heres-how-we-can-fix-it-and-why-it-matters-226198 "Greater diversity also enables fluid dialogue among academics who share the same language"

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"The Fraud of Plastic Recycling" https://climateintegrity.org/plastics-fraud "how Big Oil and the plastics industry have deceptively promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste management for more than 50 years, despite their long-standing knowledge that plastic recycling is not technically or economically viable at scale." (via https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/plastic-experts-say-recycling-is-a-scam-should-we-even-do-it-anymore/)

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"The collective behaviors of animals differ in their details from one species to another, but they largely adhere to principles of collective motion that physicists have worked out over centuries. Now, using technologies that only recently became available, researchers have been able to study these patterns of behavior more closely than ever before" https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-is-flocking-like-computing-20240328/

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