Category Archives: Computing – general

Building dances to an earthquake’s beat

Posted on May 28, 2020 by

Adam Pascale from the Seismology Research Centre recently shared this animation (click on controls bottom right for High Quality and Full Screen views): … it’s from a building in the Philippines about 130km (hypocentral distance) from a magnitude 6.1 earthquake … Continue reading →

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Stepping through Python code called from Excel

Posted on March 31, 2020 by

Setting up your editor to allow Python code debugging for functions called from Excel can be tricky, depending on the details of your editor and linking software, but using the Visual Studio Code Editor and Pyxll, this works for me: … Continue reading →

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DigitGraph Spreadsheet and WebPlot Digitiser

Posted on March 3, 2020 by

I have posted here previously a spreadsheet that allows XY data to be extracted from images of graphs, maps or other images of objects in a single plane: How to digitise a scanned image. I have updated the instructions for the … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Python Resources

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

In addition to the documentation of their software products, Microsoft now have a huge amount of on-line resources of more general content, including: YouTube: Python for Beginners Probably the largest hurdle when learning any new programming language is simply knowing … Continue reading →

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International Keyboard Shortcut Day

Posted on November 7, 2019 by

Daily Dose of Excel is increasingly inaccurately named these days, but it still contains a wealth of information, and we get a new post on special occasions, such as: International Keyboard Shortcut Day Have a look for all the keyboard … Continue reading →

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More powers of 3

Posted on October 20, 2019 by

Following the discovery of a question to which the answer is 42, the same team has now reported a sum of three cubes equal to 3.  As before, the result can be checked from Excel, linking to mpmath, via pyxll. … Continue reading →

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Restoring sound on an HP computer.

Posted on October 13, 2019 by

Yesterday the sound on my HP Omen computer stopped working for no apparent reason.  I found the video below, which fixed the problem: The video is short, easy to follow, and doesn’t need the sound working to understand it! The … Continue reading →

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