Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵

freakonometrics@mastodon.social

Dad of three & born-again <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mathematician</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Statistician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Statistician</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#economist</a>, fellow <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/actuary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#actuary</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#data</a> addict. Professor & researcher in Kyoto (京都), Japan. Previously in Paris, Hong Kong (香港), Leuven, Rennes and Montréal. Full of 'satiable curtiosity. <a href="https://mastodon.social/

Posts

Post #4233712
« Parler de canicules et d’incendies exceptionnels, c’est une manière tragique de se rassurer » https://www.la-croix.com/planete/laurence-tubiana-parler-de-canicules-et-d-incendies-exceptionnels-cest-une-maniere-tragique-de-se-rassurer-20260729 « Présenter les phénomènes actuels comme exceptionnels permet aux pouvoirs publics de se dédouaner de leur inaction passée (...) De même qu’en insistant sur le geste individuel à l’origine d’un incendie, ils minimisent implicitement le rôle préventif que...
Post #4206525
"He has said he expects AI to soon do everything mathematicians do, only better and faster, and that the discipline he has spent his career in is likely to look unrecognizable within a matter of years. Rather than treat that as a reason to stay in a university department, he decided it was a reason to go work on the systems doing the automating" https://officechai.com/ai/fields-medal-winner-jacob-tsimerman-joins-openai-says-ai-will-soon-do-everything-mathematicians-do-better-and-faster...
Post #4105665
Rare images of Donald Trump trying to open the Strait of Hormuz
Post #4039403
"Cultural identity formation starts at a young age and continues throughout your development. For those who move abroad or are children of immigrants, this process is more complex, involving a negotiation between personal goals, cultural heritage and the social environment of the host country." https://theconversation.com/moving-abroad-in-your-20s-can-leave-you-with-two-identities-heres-how-to-cope-262903
Post #3963285
"Why Am I Left-Handed?" https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-am-i-left-handed-20260713/ "An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once"
Post #3935693
"Dépenses publiques par habitant dans le rail en Europe" https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/entreprises/transports/avec-70-euros-par-habitant-la-france-est-l-un-des-pays-d-europe-qui-finance-le-moins-le-rail-a-des-annees-lumiere-des-209-euros-britanniques-ou-222-euros-allemands_AV-202607190038.html
Post #3877557
"The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/07/big-oil-companies-profiting-fossil-fuel-global-climate-change
Post #3713589
Emmanuel Macron visite un village pauvre de Lozère et demande au maire ses trois priorités. — D’abord, l’hôpital : nous avons le bâtiment, mais plus de médecins. Macron téléphone, puis annonce : — C’est réglé. Cinq médecins arriveront sous quinze jours. — Ensuite, les routes sont impraticables. Nouvel appel. — Les travaux commenceront le mois prochain. Et la troisième ? — Les téléphones portables. — Quel est le problème ? — Ici, il n’y a pas de réseau. #VuDansLesInternets
Post #3682096
"Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet?" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/16/bird-migration-is-changing-what-does-this-reveal-about-our-planet-visualised-aoe
Post #3556190
"Where will Europe’s heatwave be most deadly?" https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/06/25/where-will-europes-heatwave-be-most-deadly
Post #3552546
#complex #conference https://www.thefarside.com/2026/07/02/0
Post #3469042
"Des palettes de vieux livres venant de librairies du monde entier sont expédiées vers les Etats-Unis. Des entreprises spécialisées en IA seraient à l'origine de cet accaparement massif de patrimoine. Elles utiliseraient ces livres comme données brutes pour entraîner leurs modèles de langage, puis les jetteraient après leur numérisation." https://www.rts.ch/info/sciences-tech/2026/article/des-firmes-d-ia-achetent-numerisent-puis-detruisent-des-livres-anciens-29283742.html
Post #2571765
&quot;Holding my dad’s hand: a photographic essay&quot; https://observer.co.uk/culture/photography/article/holding-my-dads-hand-a-photographic-essay &quot;Cultural taboos about men holding hands mean fathers and sons rarely do so as adults. But when Valery Poshtarov set out to take portraits of this connection the results were both touching and telling&quot;
Post #2565251
&quot;More than a century before Japanese whisky became one of the most coveted spirits in the world, a young merchant in Osaka had a simple observation: the wines and liquors being imported from Europe didn’t suit Japanese tastes. What he built from that insight—one product at a time, for the last 127 years and counting—is now one of the largest beverage companies on earth&quot; https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/drinks/a71219491/japanese-whisky-house-of-suntory-history-facts/
Post #2550459
&quot;Japan is often seen as one of the safest countries in the world, but that same strict order comes with laws that can catch people off guard. Something as small as getting into a heated argument in public, accidentally taking an item you didn’t pay for, overstaying a visa, or even grabbing someone else’s umbrella or bike thinking it was yours can escalate further than you could imagine&quot; https://sundaicity.com/blogs/getting-arrested-in-japan
Post #2531002
#irony https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/116569800339283072
Post #2504471
&quot;AI-generated images have left us questioning what is real. But the godfather of digital forensics, Hany Farid, is not giving up&quot; https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
Post #2477808
Kyoto, Spring 2026
Post #2437779
idiot detection system...
Post #2151671
&quot;Even recruiters will admit it’s fair to wonder. The CEO of a hiring platform said last fall that his industry is in “an AI doom loop”: HR departments complain of a wave of AI-generated job applications, prompting the need for more AI filters. Applicants complain they’re getting unfairly filtered out. Some fight AI with AI, filling their résumés and cover letters with buzzwords. “It feels very dystopian to me,”&quot; https://www.wired.com/story/he-couldnt-land-a-job-interview-was-ai...
Post #2124059
&quot;For the first time in my life, I genuinely do not know what academia will look like in five years. Even if progress stalls completely and we are stuck with the current models forever, the changes already in motion will transform my field of academic research and publishing beyond recognition. The status quo is unsustainable. It may take time, because academia is the most dispositionally conservative institution on the planet. But it will change&quot; https://www.popularbydesign.org...
Post #2118045
&quot;Sur le littoral normand, si des acquéreurs très fortunés continuent de s’arracher des maisons avec vue sur mer, les prix commencent à prendre en compte les risques littoraux. Certains clients préfèrent désormais des habitations en retrait&quot; https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2026/05/02/a-agon-coutainville-dans-la-manche-le-marche-immobilier-sous-la-menace-de-l-erosion-cotiere-on-est-au-tout-debut-de-la-prise-de-conscience_6684836_3224.html
Post #2054361
via https://huguesrey.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/the-magic-of-green-marketing-by-andy-singer/ #green #greenwashing
Post #2053912
&quot;Aux Archives départementales du Finistère, les dossiers des années 1941-1943 relatifs aux bals interdits font état de nombreuses saisies d’instruments. On y dénombre ainsi les mentions de confiscations temporaires ou définitives de 58 accordéons, 6 saxophones, 3 banjos, 3 batteries ou caisses de jazz, 2 clarinettes, 2 binious, 1 harmonica et 1 violon. À cet inventaire, il convient d’ajouter pour être complet, 1 piano mécanique et 20 phonographes.&quot; https://archives.finistere.fr...
Post #2017661
En 1968, dans Pilote... https://www.noosfere.org/mezieres/pages/bio/biblioT.asp?tri=2&amp;support=Pilote
Post #2015030
&quot;For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It&quot; https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/from-the-editor-race-racism-history
Post #1938723
&quot;LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate&quot; https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
Post #1932002
&quot;Une hypothèse un peu malveillante serait d’y voir une sorte de racisme refusant aux Chinois la capacité d’égaler les Européens ou les Américains dans l’activité scientifique. On peut plus certainement y voir, pour les élites politiques et journalistiques françaises l’effet de leurs ignorances quant à la réalité de la production scientifique et technologique&quot; https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences-au-carre/article/2026/04/29/le-pourquoi-de-la-cecite-europeenne-face-a-la-chine_6684257_...
Post #1785358
&quot;Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks&quot; https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01257-6
Post #1785357
&quot;The atlas of the Chernobyl disaster&quot; https://attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/the-atlas-of-the-chernobyl-disaster &quot;The first attempt to mapping the impact of the explosion&quot;