I’m not even sure they want Vance to run again. But they definitely don’t want to 25th Trump before the midterms.

You just know Trump will try to screw them and pocket the money instead.

I think he’s just getting angrier, like dementia patients often do. Also, he needs a distraction from the Iran war, which was a distraction from the Epstein files, which was a distraction from…

No, for practical reasons. I wasn’t able to secure the preorder for Founder’s Edition, and the current delivery estimates would have it arrive when I’m traveling. I’d rather not have a $1000 investment sitting on my porch while I’m not home.

I’m pretty excited about blowing all my money on INDX soon :-)

Surely you learned something, and wouldn’t be drowning for the exact same reason next time?

It’s censored because censoring it is an automatic 4 comments of free engagement to boost you in the algorithms of various platforms.

I thought there were also issues with the backpack breaking chain of custody before it was searched? That would presumably be a different matter, though.

You’re severely underestimating the “yeah it’s bad, but imagine how much worse it would be with Kamala” crowd.

I don’t know, I’m not that deep in Excel lore. But sometimes things change.

That sounds like a different thing than =COPILOT (). There are like 75 completely different things all called Copilot, because Microsoft are masters at naming things.

You can certainly use AI to generate the function and paste it in, but that is not what =COPILOT() is for. You could just have any other LLM do that.

I genuinely cannot think of a single use-case where you would want Excel to look at your entire spreadsheet without it being a horrible mistake. You definitely do not want AI to do math for you, and that is thankfully not what this thing is designed for.

Excel sees the cells you tell it to operate on. When you’re working with code, all the code is relevant. Usually in Excel, you have specific cells you want to do an operation on, and those are provided to the function, just like any other thing you do in Excel. If you want to operate on the entire spreadsheet, just provide a range including the entire spreadsheet, but this is not done unless you ask for it.

That is true for a lot of things, particularly every AI feature ever.

It’s a lot simpler than that. =COPILOT() can only see cells provided in the second parameter, and the user didn’t provide one. It’s just giving you what a typical answer to “compute the sum of the numbers above” is.

No, it’s a lot more basic than that. You provide =COPILOT() the cells to operate on in the second parameter, and the user didn’t provide it. Copilot cannot see any of the spreadsheet and just reported what a typical answer for a request like that is.

People do all sorts of weird non-math stuff in Excel. The stated use-case for this feature is stuff that operates on text. Say for example you fill column A with quotes from your customers about your product. Then you can tell Copilot to provide a summary of each row in column B, and whether the sentiment is positive or negative in column C. You could aggregate the results as well.

There are better tools for that sort of thing, but a lot of people really love their Excel hammer, and they see nails everywhere.

It didn’t consider any of the numbers, because the user didn’t provide the context argument to the function.

It pains me to defend an AI feature, but this whole tweet is disingenuous and stupid. The documentation for =COPILOT() says a few things which are relevant to understand what we’re seeing here:

• You’re not supposed to use it for math
• It only has access to the parts of the spreadsheet you pass it as the second argument

In this case the user has not provided copilot any cells to look at, so they’re just asking what the typical answer on the Internet is for the request “sum the numbers above”. And the sum of numbers above things are apparently often 15.