freakonometrics

freakonometrics, 11 days ago to random French

(via @9GAG)

freakonometrics, 12 days ago to random French

"The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards" https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinese-keyboard

freakonometrics, 12 days ago to random French

"The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not." https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1479127795330686984 (https://www.jasonhickel.org/)

freakonometrics, 13 days ago to random French

"When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres housed in business parks and city outskirts – consume massive amounts of energy" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/30/ugly-truth-ai-chatgpt-guzzling-resources-environment (see "Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" https://www.harvard.com/book/9780300264630_atlas_of_ai/ - a must read)

freakonometrics, 14 days ago to random French

"À cet égard, l’exemple le plus frappant est celui de Nancy, où les commerçants interrogés croyaient que 77 % de leurs clients venaient en voiture : c’est en réalité le cas de… 35 % d’entre eux. Ils imaginaient également que les piétons ne représentaient que 11 % de leur clientèle, contre 39 % dans les faits, et que 1 % s’y rendaient à vélo, alors que les cyclistes composent 13 % de leurs acheteurs." https://theconversation.com/no-parking-no-business-en-centre-ville-un-mythe-a-deconstruire-224182 "« No parking, no business » en centre-ville : un mythe à déconstruire"

freakonometrics, 15 days ago to random French

"système français d’indemnisation du chômage repose sur un principe assurantiel : le chômage est un droit contributif, calculé par rapport aux cotisations versées. Par ses réformes successives, l’Etat fragilise progressivement ce principe fondateur de notre protection sociale. Pour corriger ses erreurs de pilotage budgétaire, le gouvernement décide ainsi de poursuivre la fragilisation du tissu social, au détriment de mesures plus justes comme des hausses d’impôts ciblées" https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/assurance-chomage-gabriel-attal-finance-des-baisses-dimpots-pour-les-plus-aises-en-rognant-sur-les-droits-des-plus-precaires-20240527_OWXOOVBT6RF5JEHBC2NYGDJZ7M/

freakonometrics, 16 days ago to random French

"Why don't "tough" and "dough" rhyme?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhY4Vy3IHc "Spelling reformers have been advocating for changes to make English spelling more intuitive and less irregular. One example of its messiness: take the “g-h” sound from “enough,” the “o” sound from “women” and the “t-i” sound from “action,” and you could argue that “g-h-o-t-i” spells “fish.” So, how did English get like this? Arika Okrent explores the complexity of English spelling conventions."

freakonometrics, 17 days ago to random French

by @tomgauld

freakonometrics, 18 days ago to random French

"Why You’re Better Off Not Borrowing" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/debt-borrowing-happiness/677303/ "The less debt you carry, the happier you’ll be."

freakonometrics, 22 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

freakonometrics, 23 days ago to random French

"SNCF is stopping sales of most international tickets – a decision rooted in incompetence, and communicated with malevolence" https://jonworth.eu/sncf-is-stopping-sales-of-most-international-tickets-a-decision-rooted-in-incompetence-and-communicated-with-malevolence/

freakonometrics, 24 days ago to random French

"Residual emissions will mean that we cannot achieve a zero-emissions goal, and we will need CDR (carbon dioxide removal) to reach a net-zero target. Historically, this has meant planting or maintaining trees, but removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it in the ground, the ocean or in products will be more durable." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00953-x ht @jaztrophysicist

freakonometrics, 24 days ago to random French

https://www.gocomics.com/speedbump

freakonometrics, 24 days ago to random French

la "chasse à la canette"

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freakonometrics, 30 days ago to random French

I love that representation on the left https://twitter.com/jagarikin/status/1593771091738374144

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freakonometrics, 30 days ago to random French

"Des feux de forêt font rage dans l’Ouest canadien" https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2072166/incendies-foret-ouest-canadien (l'été commence dans plus d'un mois)

freakonometrics, 1 month 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, 1 month ago to random French

Les langues, au XVème siècle https://twitter.com/LegendesCarto/status/1789581293488898540

freakonometrics, 1 month ago to random French

"le nombre d’étudiants en première année a été multiplié par plus de 3 entre 2010 et 2022, et par deux sur les 3 années de licence. Dans le même temps, le nombre d’enseignants titulaires n’a pas bougé. « On est maintenant contraints de faire des travaux dirigés en amphi avec 60 étudiants parce qu’on manque de professeurs, réprouve-t-il. Alors même que les pouvoirs publics ne cessent de dire qu’il faut former plus d’informaticiens et de spécialistes de l’IA »" https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2024/05/11/des-universites-francaises-au-bord-de-l-asphyxie-ca-craque-de-partout_6232553_4401467.html

freakonometrics, 1 month 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 month 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 month ago to random French

Montréal, 20:00 vs 21:00

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freakonometrics, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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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