Build Your Own LLM, Lesson 3: A Language Model Made of Counting
Build a bigram language model with plain Python dictionaries, generate text from it, and measure it with loss — the same number every LLM…
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Why Do Onions Make You Cry?
Why Do Onions Make You Cry?
Cutting an onion breaks its cells, setting off a chemical chain reaction that releases a gas which irritates your eyes. The science, and the…
Read article →PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 8: Project – A Monthly Review Deck That Updates Itself
PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 8: Project – A Monthly Review Deck That Updates Itself
Final project: brand template, Title + Chart layouts, Excel-linked or generated charts, a Summary Zoom menu and Morph for the headline, rebuilt every month…
Read article →PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 7: Accessible Slides
PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 7: Accessible Slides
Make decks work for everyone: the Accessibility Checker, alt text, reading order, unique slide titles, contrast and captions for recorded presentations.
Read article →PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 6: Generate Slides From Data With Python
PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 6: Generate Slides From Data With Python
Build one slide per region, product or branch automatically from an Excel file with python-pptx: titles, native charts and status text, ready to re-run…
Read article →PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 5: Sections and Zoom Navigation
PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 5: Sections and Zoom Navigation
Organise long decks with sections and use Summary Zoom and Section Zoom to jump to any part during a meeting and come back automatically.
Read article →PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 4: Morph for Before-and-After Stories
PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 4: Morph for Before-and-After Stories
Use the Morph transition to move, resize and recolour objects smoothly between two slides, and force matches with !! object names.
Read article →PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 3: Charts Linked to Excel That Update
PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 3: Charts Linked to Excel That Update
Paste charts as links so this month's numbers flow into the deck: paste link vs embed, updating, Edit Links, and what breaks links when…
Read article →Why Is the Sky Blue (and Sunsets Red)? Explained in Two Minutes
Why Is the Sky Blue (and Sunsets Red)? Explained in Two Minutes
The sky is blue because air scatters short (blue) wavelengths of sunlight much more than long (red) ones — Rayleigh scattering. Why it is…
Read article →PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 2: A Brand Template (.potx) for the Whole Team
PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 2: A Brand Template (.potx) for the Whole Team
Turn your master into a company template: theme colours and fonts, only the layouts people need, saved as .potx and shared so every new…
Read article →VBA Files and Folders + Final Project: Combine a Month of Reports Automatically
VBA Files and Folders + Final Project: Combine a Month of Reports Automatically
Excel VBA course lesson 15: loop through files with Dir, create folders, check whether files exist, read text/CSV files, then build the final project…
Read article →PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 1: Slide Master and Custom Layouts
PowerPoint Intermediate Lesson 1: Slide Master and Custom Layouts
Stop formatting slide by slide: set fonts, colours and logo once in the Slide Master and create your own layouts such as "Title +…
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