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  • Learn what you need to do to follow recipes, and then you’ll learn the rest over time. Cook things you like to eat.

    Don’t get a bunch of junk for your kitchen. You only need basic things and can buy them as you go.

    • Knives - you only need a chef’s knife (8" or 10") for most kitchen tasks and a paring knife for small things. Optional: bread knife (i just use a chef’s knife), filet knife, boning knife, cleaver.
    • Pots and Pans - get all stainless steel and/or cast iron/enameled cast iron. Don’t buy aluminum or nonstick. Frying pan. Saucepan. Big pot and/or Dutch oven (can use as a soup pot on the stove or in the oven for other things, enameled recommended). Baking sheet (and a silicone matt for nonstick).
    • Other: peeler, box grater, garlic press (way easier than mincing garlic), citrus juicer, steamer insert for a pot, measuring cups and spoons, cutting board (plastic is OK - bamboo is another good budget option, one for meat and one for plants recommended)
    • Know what it means to steam, boil, simmer, sautee, bake.

    • Keep your knives sharp.

    • Learn the basic cuts (dice = .5 - 2cm cubes, mince = very tiny little pieces, julienne/batonnet/chiffonade - strips of stuff of various sizes).

    • The key to cutting anything is to break it down into manageable, regular pieces that you can easily turn into cubes or rectangles.

    Since you have difficulty tasting:

    • Don’t over-salt. You can always add more, but you can’t remove it.

    • Acidity and fat are important to make food taste good. Vinegar is often a hack to make food taste better.

    • Adding MSG to your food is also a great way to make it taste better.

    • Learn what herbs and spices belong in different kinds of food. Some can go in a lot of different cuisines and dishes - like salt, pepper, garlic, onion, parsley, and chives. But others have more niche uses, and some combinations are very typical of specific cuisines. Buy individual spices, not spice mixes. Dry spices are stronger than fresh spices, so if substituting dried for fresh, you will use less than you would use if they were fresh.

    The head chef of Alethea (3 star michelin restaurant) totally lost his sense of taste for years and still ran one of the best restaurants in the world.



  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldGood manners are priceless.
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    Their CEO said he liked that people are saying please and thank you. Imo it’s because he thinks it’s helpful to their brand that people personify LLMs, they’ll be more comfortable using it, trust it more, etc.

    Additionally, because of how LLMs work, basically taking in data, contextualizing user inputs, and statistically determining the output iteratively (my understanding, is oversimplified) - if being polite yields better responses in real life (which it does) then it’ll probably yield better LLM output. This effect has been documented.



  • I largely analyze data and create software to automate business tasks. This allows people in my company to make informed decisions about the business, how money is or should be spent, who & where to hire, helping non-techical people automate repetitive tasks. I also present/interpret data and influence decision-making.

    This might mean creating forecasts. Automating data analysis with reports. Building data sources (gathering and manipulating data from different places and compiling it). Building interactive software or excel sheets for non-technical users. Creating white papers or presentations on analysis I’ve done. Etc.

    I use excel, google sheets, google app script (basically javascript), tableau, python, and SQL.









  • I think the problem with corrections (positive punishment is the behavioral psych term, applying a punishing stimulus) is you have to ensure the dog pairs the punishment with the thing you want them to stop doing. That is actually really difficult to do.

    For instance imagine this chain of events:

    Your dog is wearing a shock collar

    Dog sees another dog

    Dog feels anxious and barks

    Dog receives a shock and stops barking

    Success! Right? Your dog paired the bark with the shock! Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it paired seeing the other dog with the shock. You repeat this dozens of times, now your dog thinks whenever it sees other dogs it gets shocked. Congrats, now your dog is either scared of other dogs, aggressive toward other dogs, or both. It’s basically luck of the draw if your dog will respond well to positive punishment AND it is hard to time positive punishment in a way that improves your dog’s chances of responding well - even if the timing is instant like in the case of a bark collar.

    Imo, it is best to go positive reward only because the risk of you messing up your dog’s training is MUCH lower. And then if it doesn’t respond to positive reward, you can try positive punishment. But always go with the minimally aggressive/aversive training method first. Then escalate if you have to.

    Edit: another problem with punishment is it can teach your dog to hide healthy communication behaviors. Say you correct your dog when it snarls/growls at a child or dog that is getting up in its face. It learns not to snarl/growl, but it doesn’t learn to not be bothered by things up in its face. Now instead of communicating that it is pissed off, it goes from seeming fine (i.e. not snarling or growling) to escalating to snapping or biting. Whenever I see people with shock collars, they often correct healthy behaviors like this and it freaks me out because they could be teaching their dog not to telegraph its aggression.