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======Macrodata Refinement====== | ======Macrodata Refinement====== | ||
- | Macrodata Refinement is the section of [[Lumon Industries]] where [[Mark Scout|Mark]], | ||
- | Although only four employees work in MDR, the space they occupy is very large. In addition to the area where their small cubicles are set up, the suite contains a kitchenette, | + | > The keyboard doesn’t have an escape key on purpose because |
- | MDR employees wear blue badges. | + | Macrodata Refinement is the section of [[Lumon Industries]] where [[Mark Scout|Mark]], |
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+ | Although only four employees work in MDR, the space they occupy is large and mostly empty. In addition to the vast room where their small cubicles are set up, the suite contains a [[kitchenette]], | ||
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+ | MDR employees wear blue [[badge|badges]]. | ||
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+ | The sole task of a Macrodata Refiner is to identify groups of numbers on his or her computer terminal screen, fence those numbers off, and place the number groups in one of five ' | ||
It is not known what the files are for, what the numbers mean or what the goal of refinement is. The refiners only know that the work of Macrodata Refinement is mysterious and important. | It is not known what the files are for, what the numbers mean or what the goal of refinement is. The refiners only know that the work of Macrodata Refinement is mysterious and important. | ||
=====Procedure===== | =====Procedure===== | ||
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- | Each refiner works on one file at a time. Files are encrypted and have non-descriptive names such as " | ||
- | Given the time and effort it takes a Refiner to complete a single file, there could be hundreds to thousands of such number groups in every file. | + | {{ :: |
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+ | Each refiner works on one file at a time. Files are encrypted and have non-descriptive names such as " | ||
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+ | Given the time and effort it takes a Refiner to complete a single file, there could be hundreds to thousands of such number groups in every file. According to Dylan in the episode [[Half Loop]], only one in five files are typically completed before they expire. The Refiners do not have any knowledge of what causes some files to expire before they are fully refined. | ||
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- | As the Refiner identifies each number group, he or she uses the trackball attached to the terminal to select all the numbers in a group which fences them off, and then drops that group of numbers into an area of the screen called Buckets. There are five Buckets on each screen are labeled 01 to 05. Some quantity of each of the humors, labeled WO, FR, DR and MA, are represented in all five buckets. | + | As the Refiner identifies each number group, he or she uses the trackball attached to the terminal to select all the numbers in a group which fences them off, and then drops that group of numbers into an area of the screen called Buckets. There are five Buckets on each screen are labeled 01 to 05. Some quantity of each of the [[the_four_tempers]], labeled WO, FR, DR and MA, are represented in all five buckets. |
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+ | ===== Motivation ===== | ||
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To incentivize productivity, | To incentivize productivity, | ||
- | When a Refiner has performed exemplary work over a quarter, they may be designated Refiner of the Quarter (ROQ), the prize for which is a [[Waffle Party]]. | + | When a Refiner has performed exemplary work over a quarter, they may be designated |
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+ | ===== Trivia ===== | ||
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+ | * Adam Scott has shared that the trackballs used in the MDR keyboards were “ergonomically really awkward”((https:// | ||
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