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Oct. 13
Vegetarian(-ish) Ground Meat
Here’s a fun recipe for making some kind of vegetarian(-ish) ground meat.
For the base, get some jackfruit, ideally already in dried, minced form. If you’re using dried jackfruit, cook it in water for about 2 minutes, using roughly five times its weight in water. I recommend not using plain water, but adding some premade vegetable stock and/or chicken or meat stock (though obviously, that makes it non-vegetarian).
After that, drain the jackfruit, squeeze out some of the excess water, and put it in a pan with some oil. Fry it until it starts to brown. Then add some tomato paste and miso paste(adds umami), and cook for another minute or so.
Oct. 12
AI, Mathematics, and What We Value
Since OpenAI announced a solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem and subsequently released Math Repo, a collection of hundreds of mathematical results produced with the help of AI, there has been a great deal of discussion on social media.
The reactions seem to fall into two broad camps: (1) this is the coolest and greatest thing that has ever happened, and (2) this is the worst thing that has ever happened. The battle lines are drawn, with tech bros tending toward the first camp and many mathematicians expressing concerns associated with the second. The divide seems so entrenched that, when I looked, I could not find a dedicated thread in the largest mathematics subreddit discussing the hundreds of AI-generated results, because they ban all posts about AI.
Oct. 11
I made an Burger
For the burger buns, I used the following recipe. The one thing I would change is the turmeric. I used half a teaspoon, but I would reduce it a bit more. I also only let the dough rise for an hour the first time. I think letting it rise for longer, around two hours, would have made the buns a bit better. Also, yeast needs warmth, so in winter, room temperature might be a bit too cold. In that case, you could put the dough in the oven at a very low temperature(<30°C).
