LLMs will NOT be the way there if it ever happens.
Yeah that's true, I agree.
because that is not happening anytime soon
How can you be so certain? Strong AI algorithm could be invented/discovered any time.
But they aren't using money they've accumulated. They're borrowing this money.
It's easy to have unique keys in your spreadsheet so that you can easily relate information on different sheets to one another. The problem is, actually doing the processing that a SQL server would do trivially is irritating, and then it will be processed slowly every time. Whatever Excel does or doesn't cache, it isn't enough. You can do big complicated things, but they work slowly, and maintaining it is irritating at best. When you do complicated things either your formulas get long, or you wind up having to write code, or in fact often it's both. At that point you're way better off IMO doing it in something else so that at least performance is good when you're done, and you never have to screw with editing a long formula.
But, is 2e7 cells really that many? If I spent 5 minutes brainstorming I could probably think of 20 pieces of metadata you'd want in columns of a spreadsheet tracking financial transactions
That's exactly why it should be in a database and not a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are best when you have a reasonably limited number of columns. It's also a horrible PITA to use them as a relational database (it's more or less possible, but you don't want to do it) so hiding pieces of that complexity in other sheets in order to limit the data the user interfaces with on the main sheet is just a lot of extra work you wouldn't have to do if you used another solution.
I'm mostly surprised that Google Sheets chokes on what feels like a fairly small amount of data. My best guess is that it's some insane formulas that it struggles with more than the number of cells.
It doesn't really matter where it fails, if Excel can do it and Sheets can't then Google has to admit inferiority to Microsoft which is never a good look.
This gave the US enormous economic clout and the ability to issue USD denominated debt at very low interest.
German Euro bonds are cheaper than US bonds, so you better rethink your economic theory (and stop watching youtube).
What the Ukraine war is making clear is that Russia can pretty much ignore European opinion.
That is not clear at all. Russia keeps threatening to nuke UK because they don't ignore European opinion.
We contend that reduced water availability, accompanied by substantially drier conditions, may have led to population dispersal from major Harappan centers, while acknowledging that societal transformation was shaped by a complex interplay of climatic, social, and economic pressures.
Don't conflate the arrogant headline with knowledgeable researchers.
When in the last two centuries have the French, or the British, or the Germans, or the Belgians, or the Italians moved in a way to unify that continent to stand up to this kind of genocide?
Biden went around congress to fund a different genocide. Pretty words, but living up to them is another matter.
“serious administrative shortcomings [that] threaten the continuity and safeguarding of crucial technological knowledge and capacity on Dutch and European soil,” the government said, with "fears of tech leakage, meaning property and know-how are transferred to China.'
https://www.politico.eu/articl...
I don't know enough about Dutch law to say much more than that, but I'm sure they had lawyers work it out.
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
