Josh Nicholas
Main website Archive Also on Micro.blog
  • 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 πŸ˜‘

    β†’ 12:14 PM, Aug 5
  • Endless lines

    β†’ 10:19 AM, Aug 5
  • Quick market sketch

    β†’ 9:02 AM, Aug 5
  • 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

    β†’ 12:51 PM, Aug 4
  • If I were a government agency I would simply constantly change my methodology so nothing is comparable to anything else

    β†’ 10:55 AM, Aug 3
  • Iran is shutting down for two days because of the heat www.nytimes.com/2023/08/0…

    β†’ 1:50 PM, Aug 2
  • 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

    β†’ 12:35 PM, Aug 2
  • Another cold morning. Why do people live here

    β†’ 8:00 AM, Aug 2
  • “[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…

    β†’ 8:52 PM, Aug 1
  • Why plastic recycling doesn’t work informationisbeautiful.net/visualiza…

    β†’ 8:42 AM, Aug 1
  • More than 137k applications for parent visas stuck in the pipeline in Australia, and its grown enormously recently www.theguardian.com/world/202…

    β†’ 11:49 AM, Jul 31
  • 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?

    β†’ 8:19 AM, Jul 27
  • 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…

    β†’ 10:41 AM, Jul 26
  • “history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance” www.wired.com/story/one…

    β†’ 8:25 AM, Jul 26
  • Interesting profiles of some of the last internet cafes, and how important they were as third spaces restofworld.org/2023/inte…

    β†’ 5:46 AM, Jul 26
  • Got to love the personal touch only a big Telco can give

    β†’ 3:19 PM, Jul 25
  • 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

    β†’ 8:44 AM, Jul 25
  • Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally www.quantamagazine.org/math-that…

    β†’ 5:48 PM, Jul 23
  • 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

    β†’ 5:01 PM, Jul 23
  • Can’t believe I went more than a week with a new personal laptop without having installed Beautiful Soup

    β†’ 8:36 AM, Jul 23
  • Bit of a brrrrrrrr day in Melbourne

    Watercolour portrait of Minoli
    β†’ 12:08 PM, Jul 22
  • Never get between a government agency and their Microsoft Power BI

    β†’ 9:35 AM, Jul 21
  • A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine www.economist.com/graphic-d…

    β†’ 9:19 AM, Jul 19
  • Finally uploaded my favourite sketches from my Malaysia trip joshnicholas.com/scribbles

    β†’ 8:42 AM, Jul 19
  • Is Tennessee a Democracy? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…

    β†’ 8:41 PM, Jul 18
← Newer Posts Page 2 of 17 Older Posts →
  • RSS
  • JSON Feed
  • Surprise me!