I wish Google had spent their efforts building stuff like this into Google Sheets instead of launching a Gemini tab that follows you everywhere and says "sorry I can't help with that" if you try to use it
When you look into the data structure and organization that is underneath Google Sheets, and if you have any experience with LLMs and structured outputs, Google shit in their sheets as far as having an overly complex internal representation for a spreadsheet. Their data representation needs to be translated into something far easier to work with for machine learning models to work with that data, without a massive amount of filtering just to reach the spreadsheet data itself.
> When you look into the data structure and organization that is underneath Google Sheets
I don't use Google Sheets very often, so maybe this is obvious to someone that does. But, how do you look at the data structure and organization underneath Google Sheets? Are you an employee or is this available to the general public? Through an api?
I think if you trained a MLM to replace certain tokens in a CSV with formulas, you can accomplish that without worrying about the internal representation of a spreadsheet.
Believe it or not, we already do, it is just not obvious and so far, I've only exchanged info with very few that realize this, and how to access that capability.
I'm trying to get out of spreadsheet hell, not embrace it
But the sell here is that your boss goes to spreadsheet hell and you go to the unemployment line.
Small thread at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34607738
I wish Google had spent their efforts building stuff like this into Google Sheets instead of launching a Gemini tab that follows you everywhere and says "sorry I can't help with that" if you try to use it
When you look into the data structure and organization that is underneath Google Sheets, and if you have any experience with LLMs and structured outputs, Google shit in their sheets as far as having an overly complex internal representation for a spreadsheet. Their data representation needs to be translated into something far easier to work with for machine learning models to work with that data, without a massive amount of filtering just to reach the spreadsheet data itself.
> When you look into the data structure and organization that is underneath Google Sheets
I don't use Google Sheets very often, so maybe this is obvious to someone that does. But, how do you look at the data structure and organization underneath Google Sheets? Are you an employee or is this available to the general public? Through an api?
I think if you trained a MLM to replace certain tokens in a CSV with formulas, you can accomplish that without worrying about the internal representation of a spreadsheet.
Or we can make models that are used to accepting spreadsheet data as input. It’s probably just a different kinds of positional embedding even.
Believe it or not, we already do, it is just not obvious and so far, I've only exchanged info with very few that realize this, and how to access that capability.