Finally.
Regular English
We can finally parse English with regex?
Now that would be the day!
I paid real money for a wall calendar that had the months of Feburary and Ooctober.
Wake me up when Sepuary ends
Autocomplete suggestion getting “February” wrong is a nice touch
But Apruary is fine
Whentember juneteenth
Nah, user wrote February wrong, leading to the wrong extrapolation. The program did good.
I think it was taking the letters in column A and adding “uary” afterwards. Jan-uary was correct, so Feb-uary, etc.
“Sepuary”
It’s Septuary! You uncultured swine!
Also, “Febuary“
Funny post, but it is older than the AI stuff. Source
“Do you remuary… –the 21st night of Sepuary?”
Remember, remember!
The fifth of novuary
The gunpowder treason and plot
Rimworld months
Is there a reason I’m seeing someone mention Rimworld in multiple unrelated posts?
Idk, there was an expansion released like a month back so it’s probably experiencing a spike in popularity.
Also if you don’t know I’m alluding to the fake season names it uses which are portmanteaus of real month names. Decebuary, Aprimay etc
I think this is the only time excel hasn’t decided something was a date.
Time for my art to shine!
Hahah, brilliant!
It at least could have put SEPTember at month 7, OCTOber at month 8, etc. whilst it was fixing things.
OK, but I like this better.
I’m not defending AI, but I’ve seen Excel manage worse on its own. Granted, it’s almost always my fault for not fully understanding the enigmatic systems that power its logic.
It’s amazing what you can do with Excel if you know how. It makes it so easy to analyze complex data sets, accidentally summon the Dark Lord, create pivot tables and graphs, etc.
accidentally summon the Dark Lord
You’ve tried to use Excel as a database too, huh?
This also highlights the problem of extrapolating from a single data point.
Uh huh. Interesting
(furious scribbling in the scifi worldbuilding notes) “In 2050, the names of the months got inadvertently legally changed when a megacorporation released a new version of their office suite and silently corrupted thousands of government document drafts.”
See the top comment. This is from 5 years ago not actually copilot.
When I was taking my introductory courses in computer science over 20 years ago, they told me to not use Excel if you can avoid it, because it’s not very, you know, precise. So I’m well aware that this is an ancient joke. Excel will fuck your data up - AI is just another way to do it.
But it is a potential scifi plot point.
However, I will concede that it’s probably not a scifi plot point for too long. Worse things have already happened.
What is one meant to use?
For data gathering? Pretty much anything that doesn’t fiddle with the values. Usually, bespoke apps or applications specifically designed for survey data. People actually use spreadsheet programs a lot, but those who do spend a lot of time on ensuring data gets entered correctly.
Any suggestions that are easy to use for casuals?