Hacker News with Generative AI: Excel

Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping switched to opt-in by default (tomshardware.com)

Microsoft Word, Excel, AI, Data Scraping, Privacy

103 points by oldnetguy 53 days ago | 50 comments

Making the Mandelbrot Set with Excel (divisbyzero.com)
The Mandelbrot set is one of the most stunning geometric objects in all of mathematics. In this blog post, I will show how to generate the Mandelbrot set below using Excel. It is also an example of how you can use AI (I used ChatGPT) to help with a task like this. (Here is the Excel file I created if you want to play with it.)

Mathematics, Excel, Programming, Artificial Intelligence

8 points by johndcook 65 days ago | 0 comments

Excel Turing Machine (2013) (felienne.com)
This weekend, I went on a get away with some fellow developers of Devnology. We do this every year, drinking beer, talking about programming, and often also, programming.

Programming, Tools, Excel

11 points by pabs3 85 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: What's the best AI solution for financial modeling? (ycombinator.com)
LLM's can write code now. Can they do financial modeling in Excel/Google Sheets (or export into these)?

Financial Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Excel, Google Sheets

4 points by jfraiman 118 days ago | 4 comments

Don't use Excel for data analysis (genomic.social)

Data Analysis, Excel, Alternatives

11 points by ColinWright 189 days ago | 5 comments

My thoughts on Python in Excel (xlwings.org)

Python, Excel, Programming Tools

288 points by fzumstein 220 days ago | 118 comments

Ask HN: How would you chunk a large Excel file? (ycombinator.com)

Data Processing, Excel, Software Development, Programming, Ask HN

22 points by codingclaws 236 days ago | 44 comments

Show HN: Excel to Python Compiler (pyoneer.ai)