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Posted by meetpateltech 10/27/2025

Claude for Excel(www.claude.com)
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tanksterzen 10/27/2025|
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Aboutplants 10/27/2025||
I’ve got some bad news about the prospects of your startup
thesuitonym 10/27/2025|||
Learn > Documentation is just a single markdown doc?
MarcelOlsz 10/27/2025||
Fresh account spam on my HN? Buy an ad somewhere.

Aaaaand it's gone!

cube00 10/27/2025|
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dang 10/27/2025||
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

sdsd 10/27/2025|||
Okay. But then you could say the same for a human, isn't your brain just a cloud of matter and electricity that just reacts to senses deterministically?
cube00 10/27/2025|||
> isn't your brain just a cloud of matter and electricity that just reacts to senses deterministically?

LLMs are not deterministic.

I'd argue over the short term humans are more deterministic. I ask a human the same question multiple times and I get the same answer. I ask an LLM and each answer could be very different depending on its "temperature".

krzyk 10/27/2025||
If you ask human the same question repeatedly, you'll get different answers. I think that at third you'll get "I already answered that" etc.
worldsayshi 10/27/2025||||
We hardly react to things deterministically.

But I agree with the sentiment. It seems it is more important than ever to agree on what it means to understand something.

qwertox 10/27/2025|||
I'm having a bad day today. I'm 100% certain that today I'll react completely different to any tiny issue compared to how I did yesterday.
sdsd 10/28/2025||
Right, if you change the input to your function, you get a different output. By that logic, the function `(def (add a b) (+ a b)` isn't deterministic.
NDizzle 10/27/2025|||
I mean - try clicking the CoPilot button and see what it can actually do. Last I checked, it told me it couldn't change any of the actual data itself, but it could give you suggestions. Low bar for excellence here.
baal80spam 10/27/2025||
OK then. Groks?