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Reading List (Apr 9, 2017)

Using gretl for Principles of Econometrics, 4th edition, learneconometrics.com
Jupyter notebook changelog, jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io
(First) JupyterCon conference, oreilly.com
Tech’s High-Stakes Arms Race: Costly Data Centers, wsj.com
Q&A: Questioning the Limits of Quantum Machines, aps.org
Reality check: The hidden connections behind quantum weirdness, newscientist.com
Robust quantum optimizer with full connectivity, advances.sciencemag.org
Here’s one way to get out of a black hole!, quantumfrontiers.com
How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons, nyt.com

Traveling with a Quantum Salesman, aps.org
How to Spot Bad Statistics, ritholtz.com
Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library, bokeh.pydata.org
Astronomers spot a runaway quasar, astronomy.com
Stunning close-up of Saturn’s moon, Pan, reveals a space empanada, sciencemag.org
Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle, newscientist.com

The First Practical Use For Quantum Computers: Chemistry, slashdot.org
Membership Theory of Inequality, ineteconomics.org
SciPy 2017 conference, scipy2017.scipy.org
Matlab 2017a Release Notes, mathworks.com
Watch U.S. Nuclear Tests, nytimes.com
True Crime, ted.com
Planetary scientists are turning up volcanoes everywhere they look, astronomy.com
Enceladus’s Buried Ocean Is Just Beneath the Surface, scientificamerican.com

MIB: Simon Lack on Hedge Funds, ritholtz.com
Hubble Trouble: How fast is the universe expanding?, sciencemag.org
Some methodological perspectives on statistical inference in economics, larspsyll.wordpress.com
Has economics really become an empirical science?, larspsyll.wordpress.com
What Is the Probability That Alien Life Exists?, scientificamerican.com

Ritholtz’s Rules of Valuations, ritholtz.com
Start-Up New York Gets a New Name, and a Focus on Start-Ups, nytimes.com
This global telescope may finally see the event horizon of our galaxy’s giant black hole, sciencemag.org
Defining Intelligence, edge.org
Our Universe is too vast for even the most imaginative sci-f, aeon.co

Quantum random number generators, aps.org
Split decision in first-ever quantum computer faceoff, sciencemag.org
Keynes’ devastating critique of econometrics, larspsyll.wordpress.com
7 Earth-Size Planets Orbit Dwarf Star, NASA and European Astronomers Say, nytimes.com
Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?, scientificamerican.com
Astronomy tests Celestron’s SkyProdigy 6, astronomy.com

Watch a new robot fly just like a bat, sciencemag.org
Election polling is in trouble. Can internet data save it?, sciencemag.org
How The Chicago Tribune used ‘rock-solid science’ to shake up pharmacies, cjr.org
How to Disagree, ritholtz.com
Cassini’s final days begin with the most detailed images of Saturn’s rings to date, astronomy.com
Particle and nuclear physics instrumentation and its broad connections, aps.org
How Life Turns Asymmetric, quantamagazine.org