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Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

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Re: Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

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Thinking out loud here: Generating recipes for novel, yet to be discovered dishes, sounds really exciting — like that time I added peanut butter to warm rice. It would need a deep understanding of human brain chemistry to mix and match different flavors. BTW, tried peanut butter rice with “le chef” and the recipe didn’t contain any liquid.

Not got a lot of Thai restaurants near you, eh?

Re: Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

#32
post #4

OP does not mention that he's employed by BaseTen, the company behind "Blueprint" (which is mentioned repeatedly in the blog post). I noticed the repeated mentions and did some digging to find this out. Not cool, OP, not cool. See: https://www.baseten.co/blog/deploying-stable-diffusion

relax, it’s just a recipe experiment writeup

no, it's chav in chav's clothing. this is promoting the company product using something that could pass as an experiment to the lay person. to those with spidey senses, this just reeks of "hey look what we did with our product!!!" as they pull some muscles reaching around to pat themselves on the back. probably going to be sore in the morning.

Re: Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

#33

My Rustic Omelette seems reasonable: rustic omelette by le chef Ingredients 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup onion, chopped 1/2 cup green pepper, chopped 4 eggs 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder 1/8 teaspoon onion powder Directions Step 1: Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Step 2: Add onion and green pepper; saute until tender. Step 3: In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs,…

That's the trick with the recipe ones. It's really easy to make a recipe that "seems reasonable" because most people don't have that good an intuition for the size/weight of ingredients, but those ratios are some of the most important things in the quality of the finished dish.

For example my experienced eye is worried about the veg:egg ratio here. By volume that's like 1.5 : 1 or more, depending on how you interpret "until tender." There are egg dishes like a spanish tortilla or some frittatas with that much vegetable but they use different technique to account for it.

It would be edible but depending on the cultural expectations of the person you put it in front of it might not register as omelette. Which could be fine! But if you've ever cooked an omelette more than twice you'd probably do a better job just eyeballing it.

Re: Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

#34
post #20

So how do those cookies taste? Did you make them? They have around double the sugar I’d expect, and dropping the dough from a teaspoon seems like it might not work with a dough this consistency, but they might be good.

I'm not too picky when it comes to chocolate chip cookies, but if someone messes up and uses baking soda instead of baking powder, that makes me sad. That's the kind of mistake a human might decide to put into big bold letters when writing up the recipe, but you are not going to get that from GPT. At least, not yet.

Re: Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

#35

Thinking out loud here: Generating recipes for novel, yet to be discovered dishes, sounds really exciting — like that time I added peanut butter to warm rice. It would need a deep understanding of human brain chemistry to mix and match different flavors. BTW, tried peanut butter rice with “le chef” and the recipe didn’t contain any liquid.

Not got a lot of Thai restaurants near you, eh?

If you’re referring to peanut butter rice, I put like 7-8 tablespoons of creamy peanut butter into the rice.

I do love Thai food though. Unfortunately there aren’t any good Thai restaurants in Guayaquil.

Re: Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

#37
Sorry, but 'searching google' for recipes is a surefire way to cook mediocre food. Most recipes on Google are optimized for convenience over quality. Even if that's what you want, it's a lot more useful to build a stable of recipe websites that you like and have had good results with and go from there.

Whenever I want to cook a new dish, I usually search Serious Eats, Chefsteps, Smitten Kitchen, and maybe then I'll look at Bon Appetit or a few cookbooks if I'm really struggling. Life is too short to bother cooking crap recipes, but that's basically what you'll get if you just do a Google search.

Re: Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

relax, it’s just a recipe experiment writeup

no, it's chav in chav's clothing. this is promoting the company product using something that could pass as an experiment to the lay person. to those with spidey senses, this just reeks of "hey look what we did with our product!!!" as they pull some muscles reaching around to pat themselves on the back. probably going to be sore in the morning.

You're inflating your own ego with this comment; probably gonna be bloated in the morning.

Re: Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

#39
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no, it's chav in chav's clothing. this is promoting the company product using something that could pass as an experiment to the lay person. to those with spidey senses, this just reeks of "hey look what we did with our product!!!" as they pull some muscles reaching around to pat themselves on the back. probably going to be sore in the morning.

You're inflating your own ego with this comment; probably gonna be bloated in the morning.

lol. i'm inflating my ego for calling out someone for pushing marketing blogspam and you think that's worse than the ego of the blogspam creator? we do live in silly times.

Re: Show HN: I fine-tuned Flan-T5. Can it cook?

#40

My Rustic Omelette seems reasonable: rustic omelette by le chef Ingredients 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup onion, chopped 1/2 cup green pepper, chopped 4 eggs 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder 1/8 teaspoon onion powder Directions Step 1: Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Step 2: Add onion and green pepper; saute until tender. Step 3: In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs,…

I requested an octopus omelette and was told to boil the egg, fwiw.
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