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Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (14 children)

It's about time all those math types learned to relax a bit. These numbers in these spreadsheets don't need to be exact all the time. It's really more about the overall flavor of the spreadsheet than how "right" any individual field is. Error bars are there for a reason people!

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Vibe accounting

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Microsoft literally calls the feature "vibe working." Youre not far off the actual name.

    They aren't even pretending to care anymore.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's really more about the overall flavor of the spreadsheet than how "right" any individual field is.

    Just like the Xerox copier/scanners that helpfully kept scanned images small by reusing parts of the image elsewhere. Like, all these 6s on your scanned invoices can totally be replaced with 8s. There's just a tiny degradation in the overall image, it shouldn't be a problem!

    Xerox should have just called it AI compression and people would have been throwing money at them.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    “Please calculate the totals to reflect a favourable result”

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sounds like what accountants do already

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Accountants tally the numbers and hand you the totals. Twisting them is unethical and can lead to them losing their licenses.

    Analysts manipulate the numbers to push a message. No ethics allowed.

    Signed, an analyst raised by an accountant. Interacting with other analysts is infuriating.

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