Excel

“I think what is an explicit non-goal for the company is to create Excel spreadsheets.”

“I have very strong opinions about, you know, proper, like Jupyter notebooks, this idea that like you have to run the cells in the right order. I mean, a whole bunch of things. It's basically like worse than Excel or similarly bad to Excel.”

“You can't export a quadratic sheet back into Excel. You know, we have code and we have database queries that live in our sheet. You can always pull your data out, of course. You could select any area on the sheet and get a CSV or get another file, but you can'…”

“Building a spreadsheet is, is very tough too, because people expect it to have all the features of Excel, right? And that's a really, and all the bugs of Excel in some cases, Excel has all these bugs that people rely on. Date bugs and formula bugs that are now…”

“And the way that the order of execution works, It's just based on variable declarations and references, kind of like Excel in some sense, right? So you can have columns, things just kind of execute in the right way.”

“Cloud for Excel is much worse than cloud code using Python to use the Excel skills to then deposit into.”

“I believe every one of these IDEs are done. It's dead over and gone and dead. I just think it's, why? Why? It doesn't, like, just imagine the concept of you. Like, I remember when I learned Bloomberg. I had to, like, watch videos to learn about all the random …”

“One of the rewarding signals I receive after we develop Excel is that like it's a wow moment from biologists that this is the first time biologists actually find the model can predict exactly how these unseen cell lines kind of respond to different perturbatio…”

“What sets Excel different from these static expression models such as SGB or geneformers is that we actually, instead of training on gene expression datasets, we train on causal datasets. We train on massive amount of genome-wide perturbation datasets so that …”

“Critically, Excel has not seen active cell T cells. And it's able to make accurate prediction, not only on the known biology, the TCR complex, predicting their effect accurately, that these are going to inactive the T cells, which It's exactly what we would ex…”

“However, definitely our ongoing work and the next version of Excel will be able to infer the spatially aware representations for different cells.”