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Tag Archives: spreadsheets
Microsoft adds Python to Excel
Several years late, it seems M$ is considering making Python native to Excel. I wrote a … you guessed it … Quora answer as to why this makes sense for Microsoft. Python has become massively popular with the data and machine learning communities in the last few years. Tools like JuPyter are increasingly popular and …
TreeSheets
TreeSheets look like a pretty interesting combination of spreadsheet and hierarchical outliners / organizers.
Innovation after Moore's Law
video about the plausible next wave of computing, where increases in speed come from embedding specialized processing elements (Neural networks, FPGAs, DSPs, Dataflow elements) on silicon wafers, alongside general CPUs. And the challenges of inventing programming languages to exploit this. This looks good too : programming FPGAs with spreadsheets 🙂
SocialCalc and Javascript
Dan Bricklin gives an update on WikiCalc / SocialCalc (the browser-based spreadsheet he wrote). It seems to be having a new lease of life as a web-app embedded in native Android / iOS apps. Nice! Also some interesting news about javascript.
Horizontal Applications And Popular Data Structures
Joel Spolsky : “The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures.”
See post on Composing about Kill Math, dynamical systems visualisation. Compare spreadsheets.
Resolver Systems have a new “cloud-based” pythonic spreadsheet called “Project Dirigible“
SocialCalc comes out of beta.
EditGrid is going free.