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dosinga

945karma·260submissions·January 18, 2017
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Writer of code. Cofounder of https://neptyne.com
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PySpread is really nice! However it is the Pythonic-ist approach to spreadsheet imaginable. It makes no attempt to also support the Excel way of working. Also personally I think having an actual code …
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It's free so far and will be free for personal use. We'll add a team based priced layer as we add more features
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You can access stuff in a different way of course. Each sheet is also a python object, so you can just go Sheet1[20, 20] or Sheet1[10:20] if you like that way better
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Sorry, we were doing a redeploy to make it possible to access the tutorial without signing up - by popular demand
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What exactly are you seeing that is broken? Can you share a screenshot?
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Yes. You can use whatever you want. We do ship with a bunch of useful things installed (requests, pandas, plotly) but you can pip install whatever you want.
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Good questions! So it runs all in a container. If you want to crash that container, you can! You can't (we really hope) escape from that container though. You have full access to the local file s…
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Having multiple code panes (files) is a recurring feature request that hopefully we'll get to at some point. Similarly we have some ideas around testing - automated testing for spreadsheets seems…
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Currently it cannot. However we find that many millions of row use cases don't actually need those millions of rows to be in the spreadsheet - you just want to be able to process that amount of d…
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> This is a platform as a service? That is correct > How does the frontend work with the backend, it’s all backend and magic stuff to reflect it on the frontend? All the logic is happening the b…
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Yeah, we do actually have some decent AI integrations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQVtNCdwzc - for the HN discussion we wanted to just really focus on the Python Programmable Sp…
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(co-founder of Neptyne) - It's definitely not the easiest market to break in, I am sure you are right there. The Python side of things does allow for easy import of data from anywhere though - yo…
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I think this what the demo's with sources do. But they might still run into the same problem - the LLM summarization might be a bit wrong and so now it is saying one thing and the source has a sl…
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Ugh. GoDaddy. I default to namecheap these days with cloudflare for the DNS. Works pretty well and is also, eh, cheap
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You say you have no current skills related to your education or previous employment, but in today's world updating your skills isn't all that hard if you want to - there are so many resource…
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This does look interesting but as other comments have pointed out without data or weights it's not clear how well this works. The training notebook seems to suggest it is not actually improving a…
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Not the game then
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With a budget of 8.5M Eur/Usd. Alphabet spends 200B per year. If 40% of that is spend on search, their budget is 10 thousand times larger.
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Yep I did. I thought this was about some new network architecture that needed loads of RAM but also produced, I guess, weird results
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This seems overly focussed on the best selling phones rather than really the evolution of Camera Phones. The HTC One M8 was I think the first camera to use multiple lenses for depth and different zoom…
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I am looking forward to the day computers are better at coming up with things humans can do better than computers than humans. We used to argue that face recognition and the ability to play go were th…
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Not very realistic I have to say. Who is going to take a 5 dollar bet serious in 2061?
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The Germans requiring everything on paper with people witnessing signatures is of course rather silly, but whether it takes 3 weeks to form a company or 3 days is ultimately not going to be a real dif…
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> MSCI China has returned over 12% Not per year: https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/aa99c3a4-d48b-44ac-8caa... …
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More information on the exact ad campaign run would make it easier to understand all this. Who where they targeting? What was the max cost per impression? You might not like Yahoo! or Foxnews but sure…
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Agreed! But that's not really the point the article is trying to make. Once you know DALL-E, it is pretty easy to see which are DALL-E and which are not. Just like you get to know an artist. But …
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This reminds of people in the olden days saying that computers can't actually play chess. It's just a well trained excel spreadsheet. But they don't actually play the game. The article …
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