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This topic was made for HN lol (some) Programmers can't do anything without knowing everything about it

by dmix 3y ago

kelipso 3y ago
I swear. There's this implication that the idea of having cooking recipes are unscientific in that post... "Without understanding why one sautes the onions, why should I saute the onions??? Where's the peer reviewed article proving that this results in statistically significantly improved taste?"
- notjoemama 3y ago
  I tend to think it's a side effect of having a curious mind. Anyone can saute onions. It's the curious that stop to ask, "Why does this taste so good and how can I do it again?" I think the best chef's are the one's that are curious in the same way. edit: auto correct did me dirty
  - kelipso 3y ago
    That's an aspect but the best chefs have mastered sauteeing onions before exploring and being curious is what I was trying to get at.
  - aksss 3y ago
    It’s time for the America’s Test Kitchen book on Coffee.
- parineum 3y ago
  The purpose of knowing why your doing things is so that you can tweak things and understand the implications. Sauteing onions is partially good because it caramelizing some of the sugars. What other sugary things could I saute? I rarely exactly follow a recipe so it's important to understand what effects the steps have so you can experiment with them. I've been trying to perfect cookies for years.
- aqme28 3y ago
  I can absolutely tell when onions are sauteed or not sauteed though
wruza 3y ago
Otoh it reminds me of training networks. You may spend a week tuning the params and end up with no conclusion due to (1) constantly evolving training modus, (2) the inherent randomness of the process. You can’t even know if the recipes out there help you or just add to the noise. It creates a feeling that you know, but it never verbalizes into something meaningful, apart from a few fortunate coincidences. I wonder if that’s a part our (everyone’s) inevitable future that we didn’t conceptualize yet playing on “default settings”.

This topic was made for HN lol (some) Programmers can't do anything without knowing everything about it

by dmix 3y ago

This topic was made for HN lol (some) Programmers can't do anything without knowing everything about it

I swear. There's this implication that the idea of having cooking recipes are unscientific in that post... "Without understanding why one sautes the onions, why should I saute the onions??? Where's the peer reviewed article proving that this results in statistically significantly improved taste?"

notjoemama 3y ago
I tend to think it's a side effect of having a curious mind. Anyone can saute onions. It's the curious that stop to ask, "Why does this taste so good and how can I do it again?" I think the best chef's are the one's that are curious in the same way. edit: auto correct did me dirty
- kelipso 3y ago
  That's an aspect but the best chefs have mastered sauteeing onions before exploring and being curious is what I was trying to get at.
- aksss 3y ago
  It’s time for the America’s Test Kitchen book on Coffee.
parineum 3y ago
The purpose of knowing why your doing things is so that you can tweak things and understand the implications. Sauteing onions is partially good because it caramelizing some of the sugars. What other sugary things could I saute? I rarely exactly follow a recipe so it's important to understand what effects the steps have so you can experiment with them. I've been trying to perfect cookies for years.
aqme28 3y ago
I can absolutely tell when onions are sauteed or not sauteed though

wruza 3y ago

Otoh it reminds me of training networks. You may spend a week tuning the params and end up with no conclusion due to (1) constantly evolving training modus, (2) the inherent randomness of the process. You can’t even know if the recipes out there help you or just add to the noise. It creates a feeling that you know, but it never verbalizes into something meaningful, apart from a few fortunate coincidences. I wonder if that’s a part our (everyone’s) inevitable future that we didn’t conceptualize yet playing on “default settings”.