@padraig A few years ago for a conference competition I created a spreadsheet with seeded errors, to test auditors and auditing software. 'AI' apps have been failing at detecting the errors in it, until now. Claude 4.6 cracked it.
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European Spreadsheet Risk Annual Conference Programme announced
Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th July 2025
University of Greenwich, London, UK

https://eusprig.org/conferences/eusprig-annual-conference/

Spreadsheet Entertainment
AI and LLMs
Excel languages
Research into human-computer interaction
Horror Stories

Register on https://eusprig2025.eventbrite.co.uk/

@EuSpRIG #eusprig #conference #London #HCI #research #AI #LLMs #Excel #TDD #Spreadsheet #Risk

Do you know how to make spreadsheets safer? Do you have ideas to improve how ordinary users can find errors faster and correct them more easily? Do you provide spreadsheet training which includes recommendations for good practices? There is still a chance to offer a talk to the European Spreadsheet Risk and Productivity Interest Group @EuSpRIG annual conference in Greenwich, London, UK, on July 3 & 4, 2025.

https://eusprig.org/conferences/call-for-papers-presentations/

#Eusprig #Excel #Spreadsheets #Risk #Conference

Call for Papers & Presentations | European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group

https://www.postofficescandal.uk/post/proposed-amendment-to-legal-assumption-about-the-reliability-of-computers/

UK: Proposed amendment to legal presumption about the reliability of computers

Long campaign by Stephen Mason, one of the keynote speakers at #eusprig 2024.
#itrisk #postmaster #horizon #scandal
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Proposed amendment to legal presumption about the reliability of computers

Houses of Parliament, taken on 26 Nov 2024 I am grateful to the journalist Tom Webb, who specialises in data protection, for alerting me to an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, currently…

Post Office Scandal

@Felienne has a paper on "A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design"
https://www.felienne.com/archives/8470

Mentions the "math is hard" arguments and that on the other hand "spreadsheets are excluded from the dominant discourses in PL"

It would make for an interesting case study among programmers in the BT Young Scientist competition.
https://btyoungscientist.com/bt-young-scientist-technology-exhibition-continues-break-records-entry-numbers-rise/
"a gender split of 61% female to 39% male entrants"

#Gender #Feminism #CS #Programming #STEM #Excel #Eusprig

Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design

Next week I will visit SPLASH to present a paper titles “A case for feminism in programming language design”, co-authored with Ari Schlesinger. A preprint of the paper can be found at t…

Felienne Hermans

European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group
#EUSPRIG

The Horror. Make it Stop. 🤓

https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/

"Some years ago, I was involved in a somewhat heated online disagreement with an eminent professor of spreadsheet risk. I inadvertently provoked my adversary to describe me as an idiot and to compare me to a member of the Italian inquisition. The idiot accusation was probably fair enough, but I didn’t expect the Italian inquisition…"

https://www.icaew.com/technical/technology/excel-community/excel-community-articles/2024/can-spreadsheets-show-us

#spreadsheets #accounting #excel #icaew #eusprig

Can spreadsheets show us how to deal with online misinformation?

We seem to have learned to live with spreadsheets, despite them giving us the wrong answer 90% of the time. Are there any lessons to be learnt from our ability to adapt to fallible spreadsheets that can help us deal with online misinformation?

@timbray This horror-stories list by the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group (EuSPRIG) is both hilarious and terrifying.

https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/

#EuSPRIG #Spreadsheets #Excel

Horror Stories | European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group

@EuSpRIG programme 4-5 July London contd

Exploring Higher #Education #Competencies through Spreadsheet Self-#Assessment and Time. Maria Csernoch, U. Debrecen

Subject integration with spreadsheets: Ignoring education is the greatest risk ever
Mária Csernoch et al.

Prospects for using #Generative #AI to Create #Spreadsheet #Models, Prof. Thomas Grossman, USFCA

#Eusprig #risk #ITrisk

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EuSpRIG 2024 Annual Conference: Spreadsheet Productivity and Risks

Join us at EuSpRIG 2024 for insights on boosting your spreadsheet skills while managing risks - it's gonna be epic!

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@EuSpRIG programme 4-5 July London contd

Understanding and Evaluating Trust in Generative AI and Large Language Models for Spreadsheets, Dr Simon Thorne, Cardiff Met. University

Addressing the Modelling Skills Gap, Ian Schnoor, Financial Modelling Institute

Twenty Principles for Good Spreadsheet Practice. Ian Pay, ICAEW

#Eusprig #spreadsheet #risk #ITrisk

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EuSpRIG 2024 Annual Conference: Spreadsheet Productivity and Risks

Join us at EuSpRIG 2024 for insights on boosting your spreadsheet skills while managing risks - it's gonna be epic!

Eventbrite