A company built an algorithm to write nonsensical work-from-home tips and made their employees follow them
- Botnik Studios, a company run by comedy writers, has provided some valuable work-from-home tips.
- The company uses predictive text, machine learning, and algorithms to come up with hilarious alternatives to Harry Potter chapters, Oscars speeches, and now, WFH advice.
- They were written by a program using predictive text and a neural network.
- Tips include washing your laptop with "kitchen things," and how "you don't have to answer emails from people who claim to be perfect."
Botnik Studios has released some pretty handy working-from-home tips on its Instagram page. The group of comedy writers who run the company had a program write some pieces of advice for everyone working at their home desks by using predictive text and a neural network — a type of machine learning.
"We used predictive text and a neural network to write these work-from-home tips, then forced our employees to comply," said Botnik in the caption accompanying photos of the nine "tips for working as from a place you have to work and live in" written as Slack messages.
They are all basically nonsense, but some of them do have a hint of haunting realness to them. You can follow them as you see fit.
1. Get yourself a headset and a dedicated shirt, because you are stuck inside a small world of laundry for roughly 115,00 years.
2. The door is the key to a flexible workspace (the door shut or not).
3. As a practical way to stay connected with your network, work on a mobile smartphone that makes calls while you read famous novels of the 19th century.
4. Wash your laptop with some kitchen things.
5. Stretch your legs over your face and keep them elevated for the day!
6. Establish regular jeans to work in. They are designed for sitting remotely for years.
7. Tomato time is your best friend. Work away from the kitchen for a few weeks, and then it's tomato time.
8. Pay close attention to sound in your immediate life. It may seem obvious, but some of those noises are the host of a good podcast you can dive straight into.
9. You don't have to answer emails from people who claim to be perfect.
Botnik Studios has also notably predicted Oscar speeches from the future, and a hilariously random but uncannily familiar Harry Potter chapter called "The Handsome One."
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