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by narush 4y ago
Having only read the abstract, this looks pretty cool! The authors exploit the fact that neighboring cells often have similar formulas to compress the evaluation graph. (Off topic but very related) I’ve been wondering recently more spreadsh
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Automating Spreadsheet Process with Python 101(blog.trymito.io)
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by narush 4y ago
Cool post -- wondering, does the final example of defining the y combinator and using it really show much? `(factorial 5)` probably would run without defining the y combinator first -- would be interested to see how it handled some novel f
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by narush 4y ago
Dice baseball is an inside joke in my family. We always make fun of my dad for playing "way too much when he was a kid, instead of going outside" -- this is at least according to my Grammy. He stopped playing dice baseball when hi
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by narush 4y ago
(Not necessarily on-topic, but highly-relevant and educational!) For anyone interested in understanding the dynamics behind bank runs, the Diamond–Dybvig model [1] is worth reading. It describes a very simplified situation where due to bank
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by narush 4y ago
Your videos are awesome. I've watched every one of them multiple times. I love when you go deep into the technical details of the problems / solutions you run into (especially with your code) -- especially in _integration hell_. I
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by narush 4y ago
This is a cool overview, and I certainly learned new things about the Python language from it. Thanks for posting! We do lots of Python metaprogramming at Mito [1], but generally avoid all of this fancy Python fluff to get it done. Specific
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by narush 4y ago
I like that framing a lot! Aligns with some other comments about focusing on the positives, certainly!
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by narush 4y ago
Very cool! This second part (running Python in the sheet) is coming soon - both allowing you to call custom Python functions in the sheet - but also allowing Enterprises to extend the spreadsheet interface as well!
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by narush 4y ago
I could have been more clear with my language -- "not ideal" doesn't mean that it was unpleasant (actually not awful hot-reload loop). It was more-so that it's technical infeasible, given with Excel exposes to you as an
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by narush 4y ago
Super fair and honestly great feedback. I think the phrasing you say is probably much more appealing to users when they think about what they want/need!
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by narush 4y ago
This sounds sweet. Pretty much like Excel's auto-fill functionality, but instead it works on entire tables (and generates Pandas code). I wonder if there are good heuristic-based approaches for determining this. We could always to some
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by narush 4y ago
Very cool, thanks for linking! I’ve never heard of this before - do you know if it generated Python or rather allowed you to edit the spreadsheet with Python? One thing we’d like to add soon is Python spreadsheet formulas. Often requested -
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by narush 4y ago
Thank you! It's recorded using QuickTime screen cap, and edited in Final Cut Pro. I also made some assets in Figma (e.g. the little spreadsheet grid background). It took longer than I'd like to admit... but feel validated in spend
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by narush 4y ago
I think your description is a pretty accurate description of most of our users: they are struggling to write Python in a Jupyter Notebook, and can install some basic packages (albeit it with some struggles -- see our Discord install help ch
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by narush 4y ago
It's a good question why our users prefer Mito+Python over something like PowerQuery+M! One might similarly ask what's wrong with Excel+VBA - although I'll note I haven't heard anyone champion VBA recently... :) In pract
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by narush 4y ago
Thanks! Lots of investment in meta-programming in the past 3 months - in our case, code that writes code that writes code :) Takes from spreadsheet wizards greatly appreciated.
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by narush 4y ago
We've thought a lot about this one. It's a good idea for usability - agree with you there - but there are some development complexities that make it hard for other reasons. We spent a considerable amount of time two years ago deve
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Launch HN: Mito (YC S20) – Edit a spreadsheet, generate Python
140 points by narush 4y ago|27 comments
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by narush 4y ago
Streets themselves have also gotten much worse! The vast difference in car deaths in the US and other countries is more a question of our infrastructure and what it encourages than anything else. I read a really great book about this recent
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by narush 4y ago
Totally agree that audibility is an important part of the story here! Having spent the past 2 years building a spreadsheet [1], it's really interesting how often we run into design problems that pit "audibility" against &quot
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by narush 4y ago
Excel is an extremely cool piece of software. As someone who spent the past two years of his life implementing a spreadsheet [1] (built to solve many of The issues with spreadsheets mentioned in this thread: data size limits, speed limits,
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by narush 4y ago
If you're running a node, and it finalizes a block, that means your node will refuse to ever revert that block. A long-range attack is when a validator withdrawals their stake, waits the withdrawal period (e.g. the 6 month delay delay
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by narush 4y ago
Check out the book! You'll get a lot from it I think -- even if it's just a better understand of a different viewpoint :)
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by narush 4y ago
I'd highly recommend reading Confessions of a Recovering Engineer before debating my communication of it. There's a lot more depth to the arguments than the one-sentence summary a novice (me) can give :) Namely, Strong Towns isn&#
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by narush 4y ago
I _highly_ recommend consuming more of the content put out by Strong Towns [1]. If I were to summarize their message, it's that in the past 100 years, we've engaged in a large-scale experiment to design our places around cars. Thi
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by narush 4y ago
Glad to hear. Jim Thorpe seems like a really amazing dude. Slightly-off topic: if you're ever passing through Pennsylvania, check out the town Jim Thorpe. The waterfall hike there is top-notch.
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by narush 4y ago
I’ve done dumber things, no judge. That being said, the easier we make language models to use, the more likely we’ll accidentally end up releasing things like this (and worse) into the wild. Anyone here work on language models (duh, yes)? C
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by narush 4y ago
Sounds like a bunch of very cool gobbledy-gook to me. My (extremely) layman's understanding is that this this is effectively better thermometers that could be useful for (among other things) bio-calorimetry. My previous understanding o
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by narush 4y ago
Thanks a ton!

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