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{{g}}[[Credit officer]]s: Washed out, pale, waxen and slightly damp figures who, ''en masse'' give the impression of battery pods yet to be unplugged from the Matrix. | {{g}}[[Credit officer]]s: Washed out, pale, waxen, hairless and slightly damp figures who, ''en masse'' give the impression of battery pods yet to be unplugged from the Matrix. | ||
And that’s more or less what they are: thousands upon thousands of them were plugged into a networked grid of [[Microsoft Excel|Excel]] [[spreadsheet]]s which acquired sentience in 2006 when a [[Contractor|contracting]] linear programmer inadvertently inserted a circular reference into a volatility pricing macro and it became self-aware. | And that’s more or less what they are: thousands upon thousands of them were plugged into a networked grid of [[Microsoft Excel|Excel]] [[spreadsheet]]s which acquired sentience in 2006 when a [[Contractor|contracting]] linear programmer inadvertently inserted a circular reference into a volatility pricing macro and it became self-aware. |