Who is 4.5 years old, has 600 daughters and 500 eggs ready to go for spring?

This queen carpenter ant. I’ve known this bug longer than some people— and I like her better.

"Galton and his fellow eugenicist / protegee Karl Pearson were not directly involved in the development of early computational machines. But Galton’s foundational work with multidimensional modeling — a technique he used while measuring the attractiveness of African and European women — shaped Pearson’s thinking as he developed statistical tools like logistic regression, which is one of the fundamental components of modern machine learning."

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview

Decided that the time has come to wrap up the series of #rstats art pieces I've been posting recently. As usual, the pieces themselves are released under CC-BY licence, and the source code is linked to from the gallery page

https://art.djnavarro.net/gallery/nautilus/

If the "SAVE act" passes most people registering to vote would have to present documents in person at an elections office, including people who vote by mail.
Advocacy groups that oppose the legislation say that the bill would crush voter registration efforts ahead of this year’s elections.
The bill would create new penalties for election officials who register applicants who have not presented documentary proof of citizenship.
Opponents say that provision could potentially scare workers into turning away valid applicants while also discouraging people from working or volunteering at polling locations.
It would also allow private individuals to sue election officials in some circumstances.

The legislation would require states to share voters’ information with the Department of Homeland Security as a way to verify the citizenship of the names on the voter rolls
—giving the federal government unprecedented access to state voter data.

Many states are already embroiled in legal fights with the Trump administration over demands that they provide voter information
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/whats-in-the-voting-bill-that-republicans-are-pushing-to-the-senate-floor/?utm_content=buffer87e89&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=bufferbsky

More amazing minimalist pencil sketches of cats, by Shou Xin (手訫)

#Art #Artwork #Artist #Cats #Caturday

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116268440649269181

just bumping a mini "why we shouldn't just pick measures based on finding an x-y relationship", because I get this a lot