So apparently Australia Post have run out of forms to get a Victorian ID card. You can’t download the form and Aus Post don’t know anywhere else nearby to get them. AND they won’t get new stock for a couple of weeks 😑

Endless lines

Quick market sketch

If Qantas had influence over the government they would have scored billions of dollars in subsidies/bailouts over the past few years without giving the gov any equity

If I were a government agency I would simply constantly change my methodology so nothing is comparable to anything else

Iran is shutting down for two days because of the heat www.nytimes.com/2023/08/0…

So much of the NLP documentation uses these lovely, pristine datasets that are packaged into libraries and can be loaded in one line. And then I have to spend ages figuring out how to bolt on my mangled, holey data that fell off the back of a truck

Another cold morning. Why do people live here

“[Abortion is] the third most commonly performed surgical procedure in Australia but nobody, anywhere, is analysing or even supplying accurate statistical information as to numbers, types or reasons.” insidestory.org.au/tangled-w…

Why plastic recycling doesn’t work informationisbeautiful.net/visualiza…

More than 137k applications for parent visas stuck in the pipeline in Australia, and its grown enormously recently www.theguardian.com/world/202…

Ok what’s up with the huge (seemingly permanent in Melbourne) sheep grazier warnings on apple weather? How big a percentage of iPhone users could sheep farmers possibly be?

If I were an academic group that painstakingly created a website (and blog) to share my research, I would simply include an rss feed so nerds could follow it easily…

“history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance” www.wired.com/story/one…

Interesting profiles of some of the last internet cafes, and how important they were as third spaces restofworld.org/2023/inte…

Got to love the personal touch only a big Telco can give

Hell of a chart in this Bloomberg story on Super https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-24/wall-street-is-partnering-with-cashed-up-fast-growing-australian-pension-funds?cmpid=BBD072423_AUSTRALIA&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230724&utm_campaign=australia

Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally www.quantamagazine.org/math-that…

About a week into our rental tenure the lightbulb in the bedroom blew. We’re moving out in two days and I finally remembered to buy and install the replacement

Can’t believe I went more than a week with a new personal laptop without having installed Beautiful Soup

Bit of a brrrrrrrr day in Melbourne

Never get between a government agency and their Microsoft Power BI

A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine www.economist.com/graphic-d…

Finally uploaded my favourite sketches from my Malaysia trip joshnicholas.com/scribbles

Is Tennessee a Democracy? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…