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All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22391
77•josefchen•4h ago

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leontrolski•54m ago
Neat.

I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

mapipolo•48m ago
I love this! I bet you could make a successful recipe book based on this concept, with large schematics that a cook can read from a distance while working in the kitchen.
NiloCK•43m ago
Ahh - the dependency graph recipe card. These are excellent. I've imagined something like this forever. Always annoyed that recipes put ingredients in a giant undifferentiated list and then give an instruction like "mix the dry ingredients in a deep bowl".

For a while I expected there could be a good return on a good implementation of this, but now as soon as a strong interface itself is created it seems easy to copy.

gorgoiler•37m ago
”To bake an apple pie from scratch, first you must create the universe.”

— Carl Sagan

michelb•41m ago
Nice! this reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/flowchartrecipes/ and the table view on the https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/87/Carrot-Pulp-Ca... pages.
danielvaughn•40m ago
It's amazing how much more readable this format is. I love it.
teeray•40m ago
I like it. Reminds me a bit of the table format on Cooking for Engineers (scroll to the bottom of the recipe): https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/19/Erics-Chocolat...
flobosg•31m ago
I was going to say the same! You can also check the recipe card here: https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/19/Erics-Chocolat...
hkt•39m ago
That is brilliant. Going to try some of yours then maybe transcribe my own favourites into the same format. You've struck on a great idea here.
InsideOutSanta•32m ago
That's really neat and easy to parse, love it!
karhuton•18m ago
These are amazing. It feels so clear to see a visual ”map” of the cooking process before you even start.

This would help coordinate two cooks to make prepping more independent.

I’m trying to figure out if an landscape Ipad, with interactive elements for extra details if needed, would be a good UI for this.

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Edit: Showed it to my non-Engineer wife and she said ”this is horrible” after staring at it for 10 seconds. Maybe not for everyone…

haaz•48m ago
Published by Kaikaku, a London based startup doing automated restaurants and cooking
suddenlybananas•42m ago
I don't see why the title needs to be quite so grandiose.
muragekibicho•35m ago
It's an appeal to the attention economy. "All of human cooking compressed into 2 MB" is(mentally) palatable relative to "Navigating the Emergent Geometry of Food Ingredient Embeddings".

Getting you to click is the ultimate goal.

delichon•28m ago
It's a good title in that it says something interesting about the scale of knowledge needed for functional expertise in the domain. Like a big fluffy cat that's just a wee little cat inside the fur ball.
epsteingpt•30m ago
The work is very interesting. The title is misleading.

A better title would be: "all of human ingredients compressed into 1,800 primitives"

There is little to substantively nothing about the actual cooking: preparation methods, proportions, etc.

But the idea that tomato goes well with beef the whole world over is very interesting and useful for creating flavors that will go together, perhaps surprisingly. It will be a nice resource in the future.

CTDOCodebases•18m ago
If you are interested in that you might want to check out this paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep00196

Retr0id•29m ago
> [Claude] performed all ingredient classification under deterministic decoding (temperature 0–0.1)

Not that it matters much in this context, but low-temperature is not the same thing as deterministic.

cubefox•27m ago
Yep. Zero temperature is neither necessary nor sufficient for deterministic inference.
cj•23m ago
Why?
tempay•17m ago
You can seed the randomness are still having nonzero temperature.

Numerical instability can introduce randomness especially on GPU like hardware unless you’re very careful about how you write your algorithms.

pfdietz•15m ago
Cooking condensed beyond the point of usefulness.

It's another book for Zach Weinersmith.

antirez•13m ago
Odd not including French and Italian recipes.
jweisbin•12m ago
"human cooking"? ewww
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11 sources is not "all of" anything. You have a sample. The title is horrible. Fix the title please.

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