Hiring someone quickly may seem like it fixes the problem of attrition — the sizing down of a team after the departure of an employee — but an employee takes more than just their expertise with them. Benji Weber notes that even if a company finds a replacement quickly, teams won’t be able to recover because interpersonal relationships amongst team members have been disrupted. It takes time for a new member to be assimilated into the team, so the time to recover from attrition is longer than you think. Read full article here
Research
Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable
The Gilgamesh Epic, the oldest work of world literature, has been brought back to life by LMU researchers in the Electronic Babylonian Literature project. Using their new Fragmentarium tool, they have discovered hundreds of manuscripts, including the most recent tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic which dates from 130 BC – thousands of years after the earliest known version. This shows how highly valued the Epic was, even at a late period. With the public release of the Fragmentarium, anyone can now explore the thousands of cuneiform fragments and explore the ancient Babylonian literature. Read full article here
Merv
March 12, 2023
