Computer simulation, programming, software, technology, research, and more (since 2007)
It seems everyone is using AI to help with their work – primarily coding but apparently also other things. Given that I generate a lot more Powerpoint slides than lines of code today, it has been a bit challenging to find any application of LLMs that might actually be helpful. However, the CoPilot function that Microsoft has added to Office might be promising. Here is my recent experience using the tools.
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Today I observed something very odd in Powerpoint. I was pasting in some text from the Simics command-line interface into a text box in Powerpoint to show the output of some commands. Commands whose output relied on box-drawing characters to produce nice tables. But for some reason… it did not work in Powerpoint. Weird.
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I just got hit by a strange behavior in Microsoft word: the comment and format change “balloons” that pop up next to the text when using change tracking and viewing changes started to overflow their allocated balloons. The font used look very funny too. The issue was that a document contained a format specification for these balloons that used a font not present on my system, which in turn caused Word to use something like Courier to display it. Which did not look nice. However, it was easy to solve.
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