Weeks #19 to #21: I had 9.5 holidays within 15 working days. Holidays are always too short, but this time much too short and much too often interrupted. In between we had three family birthday parties, the first personal meeting with external parties (which was really strange after twelve weeks working from home and six weeks in the office without any personal external contact) and a trip to the Tegernsee, the Oberallgäu and to Austria in the Bregenzerwald and the Kleinwalsertal.
„Working from home (16)“ weiterlesen#dontbreakthechain Juli 2020
Working from home (15)
Week #18: On Monday evening we had a good discussion on „Ethics and Explainability in the Context of Artificial Intelligence“ in a meeting of a working group of the AI Association Frankfurt Rhein-Main.
„Working from home (15)“ weiterlesenWorking from home (14)
Week #17: It is still a real challenge, but compared to what is going on in other countries (UK, USA) or has been going on at other times (select a war of choice), it is a walk in the drizzle.
„Working from home (14)“ weiterlesenJabra Evolve2 85
Der Drop ist gelutscht
Ich weiß gar nicht mehr, wie viele Jahre ich zufriedener Dropbox-Kunde war. Der einst geniale Dienst, der den Austausch großer Dateien per E-Mail oder USB-Sticks unnötig macht und die damit verbundenen Probleme lösen sollte. Eine lange Zeit gelöst hat.
Working from home (13)
Week #15 and #16: The new normal. What is it, the new normal? The last two weeks, we were supposed to be regular BackToTheOffice. I haven’t been there every day, but most. Some colleagues are there every day, some are still working from home. Especially those with young children.
„Working from home (13)“ weiterlesen#dontbreakthechain Juni 2020
Es werde Licht



Zusammen mit Kind #2 haben ich die Leuchten im Büro installiert. Bei unserer Stahlbetondecke aus den 60ern ist das ein Abenteuer. Wir waren sehr froh, dass die Löcher für die Seile gepasst haben. Es sollte nur niemand unter den Baldachin und die kleine quadratische Lampe schauen.
Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19
Update from 6 October 2020: The wonderful animated bar was deleted by Tony due to issues with the data, details can be found here: https://rpubs.com/tonynick/covid_bar_chart_race_1
This is a bar chart race animation that shows the development of global deaths due to various causes and COVID-19 from January 2020 till today by Tony Nickonchuk on 10 June 2020.
Hat tip to Ben Uris.



