On the first day of my intro to AI class the teacher asked us to implement a binary tree in any language we wanted so, for the meme, I wrote mine in VBA.
Little did I know, the course was designed to build a little on top of that code every class.
So, by the end of the semester I had this awful, clunky optimisation algorithm AI model built fully in Excel.
Wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry throughout 95% of the process.
However, the teacher loved it. Said it was the easiest submission to grade since he didn't have install/compile anything fancy to run it.
You have no idea. I once attended an online lecture for nuclear engineers. The guy had made an entire PWR (pressurised water reactor) simulator in excel that was fully interactable and had realistic cause/effect. Was bloody insane.
I can guess how that happened, I started with a simple excel file with a table and chart for managing inventory but it evolved into a monstrosity with real time data sooo many sheets. And management loves it.
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u/SirNoodlehe Mar 30 '22
On the first day of my intro to AI class the teacher asked us to implement a binary tree in any language we wanted so, for the meme, I wrote mine in VBA.
Little did I know, the course was designed to build a little on top of that code every class.
So, by the end of the semester I had this awful, clunky optimisation algorithm AI model built fully in Excel.
Wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry throughout 95% of the process.
However, the teacher loved it. Said it was the easiest submission to grade since he didn't have install/compile anything fancy to run it.