Can this be used as a 3rd-party lib?
Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
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Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
#92Excel has a top-to-bottom, left-to-right calculation order of cells, which can mess things up if you aren't careful.
How does your engine handle calc execution order?
Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
#93https://spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai/ has a 1.5G (in excel-binary save form) spreadsheet that would make an entertaining benchmark (not a particularly relevant one for your target market, unless you want to get into "frightening educational tools for AI researchers" which is not a notably excel-friendly space - just a hilarious one.)
I have a demo I will post soon that runs MNIST in Row Zero, we should be able to handle all of GPT2 without too much trouble, probably a lot faster than Excel, we may have to try it!
This deserves its own Show HN!
Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
#94As someone who used to work on Excel, awesome work and congrats on the launch! I get that it's easy to bash on VBA, but I'd argue it's what made Excel what it is today (though maybe not the language/runtime per se, but rather the ergonomics). I feel pretty confident saying that probably 5% of the world's economy runs on VBA macros that were started by some eager worker that was tired of doing repetitive tasks and won…
I want to hear more about this self-rewriting VBA macro
Me too. Just wondering if it will finally awaken and try to destroy humanity :)
Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
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What I'd love to see is an easy workflow to make this supplant Google docs. Right now, let's say i want a shared spreadsheet. I need to: 1) Signup for an account 2) Create a workbook 3) Click share and put in friend's email 4) They get an invite 5) Now they need to sign up 6) They can edit my doc I'm not a paying customer (or even a user... I just heard of this), so take this with a grain of salt, but what I'd love t…
This feature would be the fastest way for the company to have the least number of paying users. As a user, I'd pay for one account and then share new spreadsheets with anyone who asks for one on the Internet.
There are other billing models than per user if that's your concern.
Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to hear more about this self-rewriting VBA macro
From what I remember (that was almost almost 10 years ago, so a bit foggy now), it was some finance/trading people (the crazier stuff is always from finance people) that were doing some optimization work and found they had better performance by putting back the values in the macro itself and rerunning it. Something to that effect. (Or was it for versioning? I forgot the details honestly) I think they were using file…
This is absolutely finance-tier insanity. I bet it made them a lot of money.
This is like running into issues with non-converging iterated calculations...
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Is it true? Google sheets is great, google docs is great, and hyperlinks! How much native app fast UX is due to using local state on disk? The future is not on local disk!
Microsoft teams has the option to open all shared files in the browser so you can have multiple "teams" Microsoft files open at once. This is the direction spreadsheets are going. I agree it feels clunky to me who grew up on excel the application. I memorized a few dozen keyboard shortcuts that are all broken in the "teams collaboration browser spreadsheet" sigh.
Team's files is sharepoint under the hood, which is why it sucks.
Sharepoint would be so good if the UI was faster and more consistent. Also why is the search so impressively bad?
Re: Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
#98Excel has a top-to-bottom, left-to-right calculation order of cells, which can mess things up if you aren't careful. How does your engine handle calc execution order?
The spreadsheet DAG is derived from the formulas. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting. Let me know if I'm misunderstanding!
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I have a demo I will post soon that runs MNIST in Row Zero, we should be able to handle all of GPT2 without too much trouble, probably a lot faster than Excel, we may have to try it!
This deserves its own Show HN!
I will post it next week! It's very fun to play with. Also a good demo of Row Zero's templating capability — I can make a template so when you click the link, you get your own copy you can mutate and play with.
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#100R2 support for egress $$ reasons?
We will add R2 support soon!