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Great tip by Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/22

Reminder to check out the tools I use so I can go [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read”

This is the scheme that Jen uses: [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “@melvinjoosten Yeah – I have a lot of recurring meetings, so I use one colour for 1-1s, one colour for big team meetings, and one colour for office hours. It makes it a lot easier to spot the one off meetings which have been added to my calendar (which I leave the default colour)”

or in list form, differentiate between:

  • one-on-one
  • big team
  • office hours
  • default (for events added by others)

–jeroen

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GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/12

A great visualisation that LLM are basically a bunch of numbers: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet.

It also shows you that Excel is an excellent tool for working with numbers and formulas on a larger scale.

(note the file is a .numbers file developed in the Mac version of Excel)

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] /Fay-lee-nuh/ on X: “Programmers: Spreadsheets aren’t code @chendabo: Hold my beer”
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Dabo on X: “I recreated an entire GPT architecture in a spreadsheet. It is a nanoGPT designed by @karpathy with about 85000 parameters, small enough to be packed into a spreadsheet file. It is great for learning about how transformer works as it shows all the data and parameters going”

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Excel, LLM, Office, Power User, Software Development | Comments Off on GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet

210mm x 99mm Blank Label Template – Microsoft Word – EU30032

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/13

I tried archiving the page 210mm x 99mm Blank Label Template – Microsoft Word – EU30032 and the template http://templates.uk.onlinelabels.com/TemplateFile/eu30032-template/EU30032.doc, but that fails because that site refuses to be archived in the WayBack machine and Archive.is.

So here is a local copy of [WayBack] eu30032.doc.

Related (not tried yet):

  • [WayBack] Labels A4, 210 x 99 mm, white, permanent adhesion
    Ref. no. 4664
    Format 210 x 99 mm
    Content 300 labels / 100 sheets
    Colour white
    Printer type Laser, Copy, Ink
    Adhesive characteristics permanent
    Shape of corners square
    Material paper, matt
    Environment PEFC-certified
    EAN 4008705046640
    PEFC certificate [WayBack] Download now
    Printing template / Processing information [WayBack] Download now
  • [WayBack] Printing Template for Labels – 210 mm x 99 mm – 3 Rectangle Labels per A4 Sheet (Word/PDF) | Template For Labels
    210-mm-99-mm-3-Rectangle-Label-per-A4-Sheet
    Free Download Label Printing Template
    [WayBack] word-icon Word Template
    [WayBack] pdf-icon PDF Template
    There are 3 Rectangle Labels per page with each label being 210 mm wide and 99 mm high.There is a 0 mm gap between the label rows and 0 mm gap between the label columns to determine whether you can create your design with bleed or not. Whilst producing the design, due to printing restrictions on digital presses, you must consider that there is a 0 mm margin on both top and bottom of the sheet, and 0 mm margin on left and right hand side of the sheet.

    Please read your printer manual carefully as each printer has a printing tolerance of up to 2 mm. You must accommodate this tolerance by producing your design with enough bleed and/or leave enough gap between the label contents and the label cut line.

–jeroen

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Unprotect a Word Doc on Mac – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/22

Needed these (in retrospect) simple steps because someone made a form with so much whitespace under the fields on a document that had to be printed for a physical signatures that otherwise too many trees would die.

[Wayback/Archive] Unprotect a Word Doc on Mac – YouTube.

Via [Wayback/Archive] word 2011 macos unprotect document – Recherche Google.

  1. In the menu, choose “File” -> “Save As…”
  2. Click “Options…”
  3. Click “Show All”
  4. Click “Security”
  5. Click “Unprotect Document…”
  6. Click “OK”
  7. Click “Save”

–jeroen

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Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/20

Great for converting tab separated data (for instance when copied from Excel) into HTML:

[Wayback/Archive] Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS

–jeroen

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For older Excel versions that do not have the =ISOWEEKNUM(date) function, use =WEEKNUM(date,21)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/14

Calculating an ISO-8601 based WEEKNUM

From [Wayback/Archive] ISOWEEKNUM Function – How to Get the Week Number in Excel:

  • If we are using an older version of MS Excel, we can use the function WEEKNUM. By default, the WEEKNUM function uses an arrangement where Week 1 begins on January 1, and Week 2 begins on the next Sunday (when the return_type argument is omitted, or supplied as 1).
    However, with MS Excel 2010 for Windows and MS Excel 2011 for Mac, we can generate an ISO week number using 21 as the return_type: =WEEKNUM(date,21).
  • There is no built-in worksheet function for ISO weeks before MS Excel 2010.

I tested that ISO-8601 week number calculation in with Excel 2011 on MacOS and Excel 2010 on Windows: the workaround works well for the dates mentioned in ISO week date – Wikipedia.

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Excel 2011/2010: Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel range

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/13

The conditional formatting feature in Excel is so cool!

If you use FALSE and TRUE expressions to check validity, you can easily make these red and green.

[Wayback/Archive] Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel 2010 range – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] tbone for asking and [Wayback/Archive] digitxp for answering):

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Remember Excel import issues causing a change in Guidelines for human gene nomenclature | Nature Genetics

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/23

Remember [Wayback/Archive] Guidelines for human gene nomenclature | Nature Genetics?**

You might not, but this was what pointed me to it back in 2020: [Wayback/Archive] Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates – The Verge.

The article was a result of Excel mangling import data for decades. Somehow finally it did get Microsoft’s attention and more than 3 years later, they issued options (with mangling still being the default) to help workaround the problems.

The 2004 article [Wayback/Archive] Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics | BMC Bioinformatics | Full Text demonstrated this import problem which had been present for quite a while already (it even has a csh Script to scan for SymbolMutation error).

The gene nomenclature people by now have moved to a different naming scheme, but maybe other people can benefit from the Excel updates of which you can find more through these links:

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Elle Cordova on Twitter: “Alexa, Siri and the other bots hanging out in the server break room again”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/23

Long live the Clippy bot!

[Waybacksave/Archive] Elle Cordova on X: “Alexa, Siri and the other bots hanging out in the server break room again

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Bookmarklet, ChatGPT, Development, GPT-3, GPT-4, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Office, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

I recently learned about the MacOS universal Shift-Option-Command-V keyboard shortcut: paste without formatting

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/19

Boy, two extra modifier keys: [Wayback/Archive] How to Strip Formatting When You Copy and Paste Text: 5 Ways

To paste as plain text on a Mac, you can use the somewhat cumbersome shortcut Option+Cmd+Shift+V to paste without formatting. This is a system-wide shortcut, so unlike Windows, it should work everywhere. Technically, the shortcuts pastes and matches the formatting, but this has the same effect of removing the original formatting.

Via [Wayback/Archive] macos word microsoft office paste without formatting – Google Search.

Paste without formatting is an issue on Windows as well. The default should be “paste without formatting” instead of the current “paste with source formatting”. See for instance these tweets:

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