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Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by ianand » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 10:41 PM UTC

bunderbunder wrote: post #117

mrfakename wrote: post #113

Wow! Impressive. How did they manage to fit GPT-2 in a spreadsheet? A question for the author: will it be open sourced?

It's GPT-2 Small, which is only ~125 million parameters. That's big, but it's not out of reach for modern versions of Excel. The final spreadsheet is a 1.25GB file. There's a GitHub link on the page: https://github.com/ianand/spreadsheets-are-all-you-need

What @bunderbunder said. ^^^

Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by ianand » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 10:47 PM UTC

KMnO4 wrote: post #132

ianand wrote: post #16

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I'm a bonehead. I did buy saayn.ai but forgot to redirect it. Fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out.

I'm impressed by your investment into this. That's already a couple hundreds dollars (per year) on just the domains.

I try to look at it as motivation to stay committed.

Like spreadsheets, domain names are a bit of an obsession for me. One of the other AI side projects I'm working on is a CustomGPT to help come up with domain names (https://niftynamer.com) so I don't have to come-up-with-another-unwieldy-long-domain-name.again.

Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by ianand » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 10:52 PM UTC

DuncanMak wrote: post #131

DonHopkins wrote: post #88

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From the discussion of Brad Myers' classic 1990 paper (originally published by the ACM CHI conference in 1986, then updated in 1990 in the Journal of Visual Languages & Computing), "Taxonomies of Visual Programming and Program Visualization" (where Brad dropped by to answer questions): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26057530 https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/papers/VLtax2-jvlc-1990.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

There's also this paper by Alan Kay that talks about the power of spreadsheets: https://worrydream.com/refs/Kay_1984_-_Computer_Software.pdf > The dynamic spreadsheet is a good example of such a tissuelike superobject. It is a simulation kit, and it provides a remarkable degree of direct leverage. Spreadsheets at their best combine the genres established in the 1970's (objects, windows, what-you-see-is-what-you-get e…

Love this convo and the resources. Thanks for sharing this @DuncanMak and @DonHopkins

Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by ianand » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 10:58 PM UTC

Alifatisk wrote: post #99

macrolime wrote: post #57

Any way to try it without an Office 365 subscription?

I think Office for web is free

Sadly I do not believe it will work in office for web due to size limits. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/cloud-storag...

Interestingly it could fit within Powerpoint for the web's limits (my guess is that's intended for images).

I have considered a pure browser implementation https://github.com/ianand/spreadsheets-are-all-you-need/issu...

Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by dimatura » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 11:11 PM UTC

kirill5pol wrote: post #146

The OG deep learning Excel: https://www.deepexcel.net/

Haha, I'm one of the authors, although most of the credit goes to the other author (David Fouhey). Despite being in the form of a joke, this sheet is actually functional, for anyone wondering. Like the one in this post, it's inference only, but for a CNN instead of a transformer. I think someone actually made an excel CNN with backpropagation as well.

Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by horrysith » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 12:18 AM UTC

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Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by wandynn » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 2:38 AM UTC

The content on the web page is directly converted into Excel. I enter a Propmt and there is no return value.

Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by Pokerface777 » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 3:00 AM UTC

Why wasn't that a link to a .xls file from the spreadsheet sharing network (/s)? (in other news, SQL is all you need, sometimes.)

Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by prakhartiwari0 » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 4:13 AM UTC

Whiteshadow12 wrote: post #45

ianand wrote: post #24

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Oh wow!! Thanks!!

The beauty of HN is interactions like this.

Saw this for the first time, it's awesome, I love this place. I started coming here recently as a curious teenager :)

Re: Spreadsheets are all you need

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Post by brnt » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 6:47 AM UTC

ianand wrote: post #150

c-linkage wrote: post #109

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It's been my experience that Excel spreadsheets are not transferable from one locale to another. Maybe there is a "culture-invariant" version of a spreadsheet but I haven't found it.

Oh man. Was not aware. That's a bummer. Have logged it as something to look into https://github.com/ianand/spreadsheets-are-all-you-need/issu... It's another reason to potentially port this thing to the browser one day... https://github.com/ianand/spreadsheets-are-all-you-need/issu...

Even the CSV export of Excel sets the separator based on locale, rendering them hard to use in international setting. I work at a European statistics office, and although there's SDMX, it's not under Save-as in Excel.