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EuSpRIG - Dr Simon Thorne
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Programme chair for The European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group, EuSpRIG - (“yewsprig”) for short. Academic and researcher in software and spreadsheet quality
#Trump admin accidentally reveals plans to terminate over 150 research grants aimed at improving child welfare, including Head Start & child care programs via a #spreadsheet. Only 21 of 177 grants survive. Major cuts impact low-income families. #Excel

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May 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Spreadsheets matter more than ever — and when they go wrong, the consequences can be catastrophic.

That’s why you should join us at EuSpRIG 2025, the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group annual conference, on July 10–11 at Greenwich, London.
April 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reminder: Submissions for EuSpRIG 2025 are open. Share your research on spreadsheet risks, errors, governance, and best practices. Submit via EasyChair: easychair.org/cfp/EuSpRIG-...
Full details: eusprig.org/conferences/...
#EuSpRIG2025 #SpreadsheetSafety #CallForPapers
March 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Doing some testing on various #LLMs, people rave about #DeepSeek R1, personally I do not see it. I just gave it a binary entropy calculation, it took some 9 and a half minutes to reach the correct answer. Very slow, it also produced about 10 sides of A4 in "reasoning"
March 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
It didn't take long to break #DeepSeek - I gave it a 1 sentence prompt in it's "Deepthink" mode that caused it to think for 105 seconds, produce 10 pages of A4 or 3556 words in Chain of thought reasoning and throw an exception at the output. #LLM #GPT
January 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Some big news about EuSpRIG 2025... we will be returning to Greenwich University for our 25th conference year #spreadsheets #risk #excel
November 29, 2024 at 11:45 AM