Collected links

1. Erdoğan vs. Erdogan (Acemoğlu?):

   A fairly quick inspection of web pages suggests that both the New York Times and the Financial Times operate essentially the same policy – diacritics for languages like French, German and Spanish, basic 7-bit ASCII (no diacritics at all) for the rest. […]

   For mainstream papers, the Guardian and the Süddeutsche are decidedly to the left of the spectrum, decidedly internationalist/Europeanist, and so on, and you would expect them to resist any suggestion that some languages are more important (or more normal) than others.

2. Shane Caldwell: “Landing a tenure-track position, 1950’s vs. 2010’s”

3. Philip Ball in The Atlantic on Occam’s razor:

   Much more often, theories are distinguished not by making fewer assumptions but different ones. It’s then not obvious how to weigh them up.

4. “We want plates”

5. The Economist: “Why investors want alternative data”:

   The providers are themselves a disparate group, pumping out databases ranging from satellite imagery to social-media posts. […]

   Recent advancements in machine-learning have made it possible for companies to efficiently parse through millions of satellite images a day.

   […]

   Conducting research with alternative data does not always come easily; it often arrives in messy formats and can be difficult to handle for analysts who lack sophisticated IT operations.

6. The BBC on the 100 greatest films of the 21^st century. (So far, I guess.)