That's Doctor Foreigner to you @alsothings@mastodon.social

Filed under "signs you're no longer a superpower" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/28/us-election-observers-europe-latin-america

Still not over the fact that a paper applying rebranded digital phrenology to lots of paintings, accompanied by a pile of tenuous correlations got published in Nature

I wonder how many times machine learning researchers are going to reinvent phrenology with zero context or historical understanding. At least one more it seems

TIL Quakebot exists https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-18/earthquake-4-6-quake-shakes-in-rosemead

Been watching old seasons of Drag Race of late, so when the gov't mentioned https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/09/hands-face-space-uk-government-to-relaunch-covid-19-slogan my brain just immediately went to:

(I had my post study work visa denied for a different reason. that short lived visa class was rather notoriously tricky to get correct.)

immigration policy in this country is both byzantine and constantly shifting. this is the result.

This is so close to my own story, the diff really splitting on my having the means+right to appeal (and ultimately win) while remaining in the country, so I could show 10 years of continuous residency for my indefinite leave to remain application
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-immigration-status-uk-grant-nhs-worker-coronavirus-a9698796.html

also a nice python wrapper, if you don't want JS but do still want visual grammars https://altair-viz.github.io/

had a small internal hackday today, a very nice side effect was finding out about Vega (https://github.com/vega/vega) which looks like really nice viz tool

Well, as I am sure you are aware, 2020.

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ah good it looks like they found the source of the voter fraud the GOP has been on about for so long https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/03/north-carolinians-should-vote-twice-says-trump-despite-illegality

wonder when AWS is going to rename eu-west-2 #brexitmeans

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/53663002

i somehow just wandered to the part of twitter where people think MS teams 'isnt that bad'

This tune might be a little old but it still bangs #healthgoth4eva https://open.spotify.com/track/0EHAjtJusXUzjivDhewiZJ?si=-cyOnLFoTgqTAm4jC0w-uw

this graphical representation of threads that the bird site has rolled out feels like it's not worth the reduced pixel width, especially for threads with lots of splits

what is an algorithm and how does it come to mutate

still surprised by how fragile the powerful are about their cultural trappings