Rows And Columns
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Clinton is definitely a couple of years younger.
Actually, I'm pretty sure they are twins. I thought so too.
Why would she say "my daughter?" I thought Claire and Clinton were twins?
They're not. Clinton is canonically a few years younger
May does everything in R.
Come on over May, find out why my nerds and I call it "data Pr0n". -wink, wink-
It had pivot tables and SQL queries galore. It was called "skynet.xlsx".
lol, was that pun intentional? Either way, good show. Make sure to share that one with Claire later.
Claire might be dangerous with Access to such punnery.
Where baby AIs come from .... SQL Triolet by Tiel Aisha Ansari I'd like to do an INNER JOIN with you WHERE Heart's NOT NULL. Let that be my SELECT and let the GROUP BY Lovers follow through and carry out my INNER JOIN with you. It seems that that would not be hard to do-- I hope I got the SQL correct for me to do an INNER JOIN with you WHERE Heart's NOT NULL. That stands as my SELECT.
SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Name = 'Todd Ellner' AND Nerd = FALSE; 0 rows returned
But, but, but . . . how could anyone NOT love spreadsheets? They're so . . . beautiful!
I thought Claire and Clinton were twins?
Common misconception 😂 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2277
I absolutely believe that the first AI was formed from a particularly fucked up spreadsheet, that entirely tracks to me
Yea. Only reason that I don't completely buy it - have you ever been able to keep a spreadsheet that is complex *and* stable enough not to crash in an hour?
I especially love this bc wasn't it Momo who specifically brought up that May Clearly knows her way with spreadsheets, as one of the reasons for why she'd be so good at this job? Bc I really love the idea of May having like...secret nerd shame or just wants people to not think she's lame or something
I both hate and love how we're still using that joke after so many years :D
Excel is now Turing Complete. You probably could write an AI with it, but you wouldn't want to.
An SQL query walks into a bar, approaches two tables and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
You know Microsoft Access was basically the gateway drug to SQL.
I thought Claire and Clinton were twins. What am I missing? Edit: Oh, now I see a comment with responses a few hours ago. They're three years apart? I wonder why I also thought they are twins.
They are not. See above or Wiki. (3 years apart)
I have absolutely worked on that spreadsheet before. Had I known it could spawn AI like this, I wouldn't have tried so hard to un-fuck it.
It was me. I wrote that spreadsheet. It started out as a way to track my Warframe Relic and Prime part inventory, and it just took on a life of its own.
Dude, I feel that in my bones. My WF sheets are expansive. XD
Hey! I take offense to that! XD
I dunno, that joke was a bit formulaic. Should have tabled it until later. I don't hate excel jokes, I'm just a little macrophobic.
If May actually has to work in an Office, there'll be a Row, all right.
I'm sure if Excel could do that then I'm the one that could fuck it up bad enough.
given some of the excel spreadsheets I've seen, I would totally believe one to spawn some fucked up AI
Shit. The fork that split the QC verse from ours was Clippy becoming sentient.
It looks like you're trying to bring about the Singularity. Would you like some help?
Don't ignore what can come out of a spreadsheet. Tatsuo Horiuchi is a guy that learned to paint in Excel, because that's what he had. The stuff is actually very pretty.
An older version of it had a built-in flight simulator Easter egg, since they put all that work into 3D charting anyway.
Spreadsheets ARE for nerds!
I love that pun. Of course i do.
That's a masterful pun, even for this comic.
I see what you did there, Aurelia.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but aren't Claire and Clinton twins? Sounds odd that Aurelia only mentions her daughter's birth if they are.
I believe they're two years apart. EDIT: According to the Wiki, they're three years apart.
Buy the apartment building, Marigold. Keep your apartment and you have an income source if the streaming thing goes south.
Ooh, hire Melon as the apartment maintenance AI.
That last line made me cackle. Thank you for this
uuugh they ARE
I wanna see Marigold get one of those gaudy houses I see on social media being teased on how awful it looks and how awful it looks at the price of $100,000 or more.
$100k? where tf do you live that a gaudy house is $100k and can i move there
Excel is a glorified table formatter. For anything more complicated, there's Python. (R peeps: fight me)
I've also heard people say that if you don't know how to do it in Excel, you don't know what you're doing well enough (paraphrasing).
May is motivated, but doesn't want to Excel.
Perhaps the first AI came from a Lotus spreadsheet, and that's why they're good at yoga.
Oh, my goodness, Lotus! I never used 1-2-3, but I learned spreadsheets on Lotus Symphony, and created my first spreadsheet macros there. Long time.
Lol, aww
May: “How did Microsoft get an anime/manga made called Excel?” Marigold: “It’s not the full name. However, Microsoft Excel did make a cameo in episode 5 of the anime.” Dale: “Legend has it the Clippy AI was upset that it didn’t get a cameo and that’s how it got fired from Microsoft.”
My 85 yo father just compained to me today that he cannot attach things to emails since Clippy disapeared from Gmail.
May, you could literally do spreadsheets in your head come on
She just refuses to make it where anyone else can see it.
It's weird how Microsoft Word is named after what you use it for, while Microsoft Excel is simply named after a random positive verb.
And PowerPoint is named after no actual thing or entity.
As someone with a checkered past, can confirm.
And great insights about May's motivation as well. Well put Marigold.
$5 to bet it was a Factorio production planning spreadsheet
Probably a Rolemaster character spreadsheet.
May's learned not to leave a paper trail of her accounting.
Her personal accounting. She wouldn't put Marigold at that kind of risk
It appears that Aurelia has a Kitchenaid mixer. As should any self respecting baker.
That's no kitchenaid, but the baby lovechild of Jeremy and Seven
Hey, spreadsheets are cool! I can easily update my recipes by just changing one variable!
I confess to using Excel for WAY too many things, including casually solving puzzle book puzzles and keeping track of character birthdays against the overarching timeline, etc. (also to ensure genre-variance when generating a game-related meme https://twitter.com/jennote/status/1548534172544802816 )
A spreadsheet that had coitus, or one that had to many formulas?
Yes.