Lift Lifting lockdown tricky issue: who returns to the office & who continues to work from home? It’s unclear which side of the age divide suffers more – older staff lonely at home, or youngsters risking Covid-19 going out to work. Dividing workers makes us squirm, but must be done to save the most lives…
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Home office Covid-19 workplace divide: those with a home office & those without. We’re all home workers now. What’s needed to settle down to work in unsettling times/spaces: A dedicated workspace. A solid, spacious desk. A comfy chair. Overhead & desk lamps. Ideally, a window. Adjust as needed for online meetings – ironically, when working…
Split World economy milestone splits: 1494, 1945, 2019? 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas red vertical line divided the “New World” between Spain & Portugal. 1945 Iron Curtain divided Europe between the West & the Soviet bloc. 2019 US & China tariff war splits the world economy into 2, forcing trading partners to choose 1 or the…
Algorithm Divide and conquer – the machine-learning system to bring order to an avalanche of data. Iconic 1963 ‘bubble sort’ divides data into pairs repeatedly; the largest unsorted object rises to the top Guessed the Word? Series 6 (3/5) [photo: zjazjazoie]