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Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets

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Matt Parker's stand-up routine about spreadsheets, taken from the Festival of the Spoken Nerd DVD Full Frontal Nerdity. It features Excel used in unexpected ways, including turning an image into a spreadsheet.

HN recommends it as a funny piece on Excel used in ways it shouldn't be.

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@bb882023-12 · in “3Blue1Brown Calculus Blog Series”

3b1b uses a python library for creating those videos. link As far as a math educator/communicator, one of my favorite videos of his is the video on the monster. link Also since we're talking about powerpoint here you should probably see this Matt Parker video about excel being used in ways it shouldn't maybe? ▶ this video

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@mjlee2018-10 · in “Matt Parker – Standup Mathematician”

Given we've got Matt Parker and Excel on the front page at the same time, it feels like I have to recommend this video of both: ▶ this video

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@sargstuff2025-02 · in “Ask HN: Works Related to Task Decomposition?”

Review/look at anything that has an abstraction / implimentation aspect (aka protocols / specifications / design implimentations / public "source material") . Examine how things are stratified (deterministic vs. context sensitive 'deterministic group(s)' -- and what influences determinism/context sensitivity). aka iso/osi network communications model[4]. Keep in mind K.I.S.S. / occam's rasor philosophies! -------- a) pick just a single logical plane/level to look at within a design stack. aka -> database & sql; database & hard drive storage; hard drive storage layout (OS vs. drive physical layout & drive storage/reterival (scsi vs. non-scsi api) a) Any foundations of math class. b) Simple physics problems with single logical type that be described by math eqation(s). aka no multivariate analysis. c) "LISP: A Lanaguage For Stratified Design"(1987)[0] by H. Abelson and G. Sussman. (vs. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) d) A "Git" softare repository (where should be separation between OS, main mechanics of program, libraries, "implimentation details", etc) e) Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by P van der Linden d) Look at comparisons between types of mechanical engineering geers and associated logical groupings & how that'd correspond to electrical engineering boolean logic / pc 'units' aka add-in boards; processor types, gpu,cpu, etc aka rotational to linear motion / find that info on the hard drive disk : link e) picture to excel[1] : f) design / implime

@sargstuff2024-10 · in “Ask HN: Can calculus be taught without differentiating or integrating by hand?”

Or association of lables/groups of actions with binary unit encodings[3]. aka programming languages (integration) and binary encodings (differentiation of groups of bits associate with programming language feature(s) into how relates/associates with underlying hardware aka compilation or on line by line basis via scripting). programming language 'type' punning gives programmer way to use/access an associated encoding (typically binary) and programming language abstraction[2][3]. aka ieee floating point specification[1][2] -- programming language level -- just the typical human readable number notation vs. binary encoding is just linear group of bits, where portion is number, portion is exponent. ----- "Modeling Practices in Calculus" approach ideas: "string art generator" : link "Turing up the code" : link assuming writing & finger presses don't count as 'by hand': running code on paper using just the phone camera : link "stand-up comedy routine about spreadsheets " : ▶ this video ----- [1] : link vs. church encoding : link [2] : "Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces" : link [3] : link : punning with character : gawk chapter "11.3.11 And Now for Something Completely Different" program : nil-punning : link : link

@sargstuff2022-09 · in “Show HN: Stop writing Excel like it's assembly”

"Does it support / work with / used with" concepts: * a) VR "excel" version link * b) Turing machines / autonoma are assembly? link link * c) Way to make the files generated in bit more readable! link or perhaps convert to a 3d version of 'block/cell programming"-> link * d) Convert lambda functions to "normal, named functions"?? link * e) colors to text? link link * f) objectart to text? objectart : link piet "normal" text? ( link * g) Naming pixels? ▶ this video * h) Naming blocks? link *i) midi code linter ?? link