freakonometrics

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"“Many people have the blind assumption that if you have a DOI, it’s there forever,” says Mikael Laakso, who studies scholarly publishing at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. “But that doesn’t mean that the link will always work.” In 2021, Laakso and his colleagues reported2 that more than 170 open-access journals had disappeared from the Internet between 2000 and 2019" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00616-5

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Avec le bouclier tarifaire, les 20 % les plus modestes ont touché 300 euros en 2022, contre 630 euros pour les 20 % les plus aisés" https://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/linflation-une-bombe-sociale-a-retardement/00109692

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

In Mississippi, "hundreds of people in the state are jailed every year while awaiting court-ordered treatment simply because public mental health facilities are full or too far away" https://www.propublica.org/article/mississippi-lawmakers-could-limit-when-county-officials-can-jail-people-awaiting-psychiatric-treatment?taid=65e2a45199a0eb0001fec40b

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Banning short-haul flights and investing in high-speed railways for a sustainable future?" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103987 "A comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted on the Paris-Bordeaux transportation options in France: HSR, plane, coach, personal car, and carpooling. The overall ranking on four environmental indicators, from best to worst, is as follows: coach, HSR, carpooling, private car, and plane"

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"La France moderne a été construite depuis Paris, lieu de la puissance politique, en développant un sentiment de supériorité de la capitale sur « la province » (le singulier est significatif) et des villes (supposées modernes) sur les campagnes (supposées arriérées). Au lieu d’être fédérale, vu sa diversité, « la France est un pays dont l’unité a été construite à coups de cravache […] par l’autorité de l’État central »" https://theconversation.com/comment-la-societe-francaise-a-appris-a-mepriser-les-paysans-et-leurs-patois-223387

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

Camille Besse, https://cargocollective.com/camillebesse

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Coddiwomple is a fascinating and somewhat whimsical word that has gained popularity in recent years. Derived from a combination of the English slang “coddiwomple” and the word “womple,” it is a verb that encapsulates the spirit of wandering or traveling in a purposeful yet unplanned manner. To coddiwomple is to embark on a journey with a sense of adventure, embracing the unknown and allowing oneself to be guided by serendipity." https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/how-to-use-coddiwomple-in-a-sentence

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"La Fondation du Rien vous fabrique gratuitement du temps libre. Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant à l’une de nos activités pour le jour et l'heure de votre choix : nous vous garantissons qu’elle sera finalement annulée, vous permettant, à la place, de jouir enfin tranquillement d’une plage de temps libre." https://www.fondationdurien.org/?q=fondation

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"La Société canadienne de pédiatrie vient d’émettre de nouvelles directives en faveur du « jeu risqué ». Elle encourage les enfants à grimper dans les arbres, à faire du vélo à grande vitesse, à se chamailler, à jouer à proximité du feu ou de l’eau ainsi qu’à explorer les aires de jeu, les quartiers ou les bois sans la supervision d’un adulte ou avec une supervision limitée. Elle estime que les avantages du « jeu risqué » surpassent les risques de blessures" https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/sante/805934/sante-publique-jeu-risque-dorenavant-recommande-pediatres

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

« Est-ce que c’est comme ça qu’on va arrêter la fuite des cerveaux ? » https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/education/un-tres-mauvais-signal-un-crime-les-senateurs-tres-remontes-contre-les-900-millions-deuros-deconomies-dans-la-recherche-e « la recherche est considérée comme annexe depuis trop longtemps. La France n’aime pas l’université en général. Car les élites n’y sont pas passées. Il y a beaucoup de ça. Ils considèrent que tant que les grandes écoles arrivent encore à sélectionner les leurs, les élites qui s’autorégénèrent, le reste n’a pas beaucoup d’importance »

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

Course de canot sur glace, dans le vieux port de Montréal, https://canotaglace.com/project/defi-canot-a-glace-montreal/

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freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find" https://www.404media.co/google-search-really-has-gotten-worse-researchers-find/ "They found that, overall, "higher-ranked pages are on average more optimized, more monetized with affiliate marketing, and they show signs of lower text quality ... we find that only a small portion of product reviews on the web uses affiliate marketing, but the majority of all search results do."

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"The weird magic of online social networks was to combine personal interactions with mass communication. Now this amalgam is splitting in two again. Status updates from friends have given way to videos from strangers that resemble a hyperactive tV. Public posting is increasingly migrating to closed groups, rather like email." https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/02/01/the-end-of-the-social-network

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late." https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/is-the-state-here-to-stay/ (about https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182209/the-state and https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674290143)

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"Autrement dit, ni intelligent ni créatif, ChatGPT est un algorithme qui s’appuie sur des méthodes statistiques de calcul de probabilités et une quantité massive de données d’apprentissage pour générer le texte ayant les chances les plus élevées de répondre « correctement » à une question qui lui est posée. Même s’il était entraîné sur un corpus de données « parfaites », la probabilité qu’il génère des erreurs ne serait pas nulle." https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/le-devoir-de/807380/devoir-education-histoire-selon-chatgpt

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption" https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-scientists-life-saving-prediction-of-the-iceland-eruption-20240220/ "The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives"

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"I use a watch, an alarm clock, a camera and a CD player. I listen to a portable analogue radio with headphones, or download radio programmes onto a mini-MP3 player. I have a paper appointments diary and a pocket notebook with a pen. My daily newspaper lands on the mat. On holiday, I rely on guidebooks." https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/february/necessity-or-compulsion (same here... I can totally relate !)

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

question naïve... il existe un Gaston dans le Petit Nicolas ??

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"Pour les chercheurs qui constatent que des années d’efforts et de travail, de publications scientifiques et de rapports d’expertise ne servent, en définitive, à rien d’autre qu’à alimenter les indices bibliométriques de leurs organismes, la pilule est amère. (...) Un message d’une nature inédite, qui en dit long sur le moral des troupes." https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/02/18/sur-l-environnement-le-divorce-entre-la-macronie-et-la-communaute-scientifique-est-desormais-consomme_6217157_3232.html

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"La construction des prix à la SNCF, une socio-histoire de la tarification" https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-2014-1-page-5.htm "De la péréquation au yield management (1938-2012)" ou le train, c'est cher et ça n'a pas toujours été comme ça https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4tL2nIOBsQ

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

Really cool project 😍 http://ajrgodfrey.github.io/BrailleR/ "The BrailleR package is a collection of tools to make use of R a happier experience for blind people", e.g. VI "A method that extracts the most relevant information from a graphical object (or implied set of graphical objects) and display the interpreted results in text or HTML form"

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart." https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"The University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment focuses more on personal spending, whereas the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Survey. Usually, the estimates follow each other, but there’s been a split the past few years, as shown in the difference chart" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/biden-trump-consumer-confidence-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VE0.3Rhh.4MYjMJWQcy-_&smid=url-share ht @flowingdata

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

#mood https://www.instagram.com/p/C3SlnHYupLz/

freakonometrics, 3 months ago to random French

"Too much fresh water from Greenland’s ice sheet can slow the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation. Paul Souders/Stone via Getty Images
Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades" https://theconversation.com/atlantic-ocean-is-headed-for-a-tipping-point-once-melting-glaciers-shut-down-the-gulf-stream-we-would-see-extreme-climate-change-within-decades-study-shows-222834