Arthur Charpentier
freakonometrics.bsky.social
Arthur Charpentier
@freakonometrics.bsky.social

Dad of 3 & born-again mathematician. Statistician, economist, fellow actuary & data addict. Professor & researcher in Kyoto 京都 🇯🇵. Previously in Montréal 🇨🇦, Paris 🇫🇷, Hong Kong 🇭🇰, Leuven 🇧🇪 & Rennes 🇫🇷. Full of 'satiable curtiosity .. more

Economics 34%
Mathematics 20%

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Kyoto, Fall 2025

"Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts" www.ft.com/content/abfe... via techcrunch.com/2025/11/23/a... "AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk"
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com

ah ah ah... tôt le matin... ou tard le soir...

Kyoto, 京都市

"How Bell Labs supported itself between moonshots" elizabethvannostrand.substack.com/p/the-boring...
The Boring Part of Bell Labs
How Bell Labs supported itself between moonshots
elizabethvannostrand.substack.com

"Monarch butterflies somehow fly from Ontario, Canada to Mexico City, but the migration patterns were unknown" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

c'est dingue... je découvre...

"Biomarker Changes during 20 Years Preceding Alzheimer’s Disease" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... ("multicenter, nested case–control study of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in cognitively normal participants in the China Cognition and Aging Study from January 2000 through December 2020")

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Reposted by Arthur Charpentier

"The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Kyoto, Fall 2025, momiji 🍁 (紅葉)

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Kyoto, Fall 2025

"Et si les cyclistes avaient raison de ne pas s’arrêter aux stops ?" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/84830

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Kyoto, Fall 2025 🍂
"Being Anti-Trump is probably illegal"

3 minutes on things that have happened in America over the weekend, concentrating on violating Democratic norms.

youtu.be/40OBi4acYYI
2 November: 'being Anti-Trump is probably illegal'
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
youtu.be

"In 1887, the French railways unilaterally decided to move every clock in every railway station 5 minutes behind Paris time. Meanwhile, the clocks outside the stations remained untouched. So why on earth (or at least, in France) would you do that?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PELr... #soFrench
Why French Railway Stations Delayed Their Clocks (& What Happened When They Did)
YouTube video by The Tim Traveller
www.youtube.com

Kyūshū Island, Fall 2025

Kyūshū Island, Fall 2025

"Les maths à la rescousse de l’intelligence artificielle" www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art... "Si les potentialités des IA en mathématiques ne cessent de croître, celles-ci continuent d’avoir besoin de cette discipline pour améliorer leurs performances"
Les maths à la rescousse de l’intelligence artificielle
Si les potentialités des IA en mathématiques ne cessent de croître, celles-ci continuent d’avoir besoin de cette discipline pour améliorer leurs performances.
www.lemonde.fr

Kyūshū Island, Fall 2025 (Sasebo)

Kyūshū Island, Fall 2025

"In the 1940s, when the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard asked good mathematicians how they came up with solutions to hard problems, they nearly universally answered that they didn’t think in words; neither did they think in images or equations" www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/wordless-t...
When is better to think without words?
Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz