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Gotta love Dutch sometimes
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We continue with a Heyawake.
While with the Akari above it's probably reasonable to guess the rules from the solution, I think the Heyawake rules are probably a bit tricky.
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And after a successful day's talking spreadsheets, unwound on the train filling out cells myself with a nice puzzle
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Gotta love Dutch sometimes
We continue with a Heyawake.
While with the Akari above it's probably reasonable to guess the rules from the solution, I think the Heyawake rules are probably a bit tricky.
And now an Akari!
Another day, another big puzzle - this time, a Double Choco.
Another one where I reckon the rules are gettable from the solution.
I considered posting the rules for the curious, but I think this is one of those genres where it's quite deductible from the solved grid
And after a successful day's talking spreadsheets, unwound on the train filling out cells myself with a nice puzzle
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And with a look at the history and synthesis of the conference we are done!
Thank you for your engagement and support.
Call for papers for EuSpRIG 2027 should be out later this year!
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We are into the Q&A but once again I need to pause live coverage here to prepare to present - for the final presentation of the conference!
Long-time EuSpRIG lynchpin Grenville Croll wrote a paper this year on the history of E…
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Can we expect to see AI in Power Query? Seems likely, but David promises no insider knowledge here.
Will people end up using PQ more? No, it seems likely that AI will make learning the tool less attractive.
David also shows o…
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David shows the use of Gemini for researching data. It does an impressive job of going from a list of movie titles and headings and just getting on with filling in everything.
Now we move to Power Query, showing the step by st…
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David starts by getting Copilot to clean some data with errors. His prompt? "Clean this data."
It asks some clarifying text, to which David's response is "Just figure it out you moron". I'm not sure David is planning for survi…
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Some touching commentary on Turing's impact on computing but also on gay rights through the Turing law and pardoning of historic convictions for homosexual behaviour.
We are now pivoting to the meat of the topic.
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