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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People do all sorts of weird non-math stuff in Excel. The stated use-case for this feature is stuff that operates on text. Say for example you fill column A with quotes from your customers about your product. Then you can tell Copilot to provide a summary of each row in column B, and whether the sentiment is positive or negative in column C. You could aggregate the results as well.

There are better tools for that sort of thing, but a lot of people really love their Excel hammer, and they see nails everywhere.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But haven't the makers of Excel said in the past that you shouldn't use Excel for non-math stuff because that's not what it's designed for? Now their putting in a "tool" that's useless for math stuff?

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

I don't know, I'm not that deep in Excel lore. But sometimes things change.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is there a layperson-accessible way to paste a large number of email adresses and concatenate them with "; " that's more recommended than spreadsheet software?.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And what do you need AI to do with that list?

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago

Not AI but it is non-math stuff in Excel.