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Does this article imply there are circumstances where a spreadsheet is a cat? What a poor example of technical writing.

• teacpde 4y ago
  Not the author, but to the author's defense, it is meant to be non-technical. And the first paragraph reads interesting to me.
  • nailer 4y ago
    Most non technical people would think there are zero circumstances where a spreadsheet could be a cat.
    • ricardobeat 4y ago
      That's part of the explanation. It might not make sense at first, but you'll figure something out to avoid being slapped.
    • adrianmonk 4y ago
      It's obvious from context that it's the content of the media. To me at least. If I play you a song on Spotify and say, "Is this a saxophone?", you wouldn't say, "No, it's a iPhone running Spotify." If a policeman holds up a photograph of a person and says, "Is this the person who attacked you?", the victim doesn't say, "No, it's an 8 by 10 glossy print."
      • cshimmin 4y ago
        mais ceci n'est pas une pipe!
      • nailer 4y ago
        Yes but you had to think about it, as did I, and there was a moment where you went "hangon, did this person imply a spreadsheet could ever be a cat?" and thought you were 95% sure they did this very bizarre thing, it was distracting.
• andysinclair 4y ago
  He’s saying that the spreadsheet represents the “picture” of the cat in terms of pixels and RGB values etc. The algorithm/workers are not really “looking” at a picture of a cat, they are analysing and looking for patterns in the data that defines the picture of the cat.
  • nailer 4y ago
    Yes I know. The spreadsheet analogy does not work.