Making a chicken from scratch -- hilarious. Where do you source those 'recipes' ?
Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch
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#12For making the vegetables, you should have seeds as an ingredient. Then to make seeds you need the vegetables, so you could have a cycle in your dependency graph.
Also you should keep adding recipes for seawater and soil etc until you have a recipe for creating the universe. And use an apple pie as your example recipe.
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#13Off the topic but quite annoying to me: moving the slide creates a bunch of URL histories that break the "back" button.
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#14I get a 404 every time I click on one of the recipes.
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#15I made this for fun with React and Go, its open-source if you want to hack it yourself. [1]
I was inspired by the book "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" by Jennifer Reese. I tried to continue the idea to see how much money+time it costs to continually substitute an ingredient for the recipe of that ingredient.
Sorry for the ads - I use them to make back the $ spent on the domain :). I just toned them down.
Please let me know if there are any other suggestions!
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#16Cool idea, but super frustrating that your site breaks my back button. There's basically never a justification for this.
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#17Making a chicken from scratch -- hilarious. Where do you source those 'recipes' ?
The recipes are pretty generic. The data is actually all in a configuration file on Github. [1] Its organized in terms of "reactions" as in, every recipe is a "product" of some process applied to a set of "reactants". This is useful for reactions that have multiple products.
[1]: https://github.com/schollz/recursive-recipes/blob/master/rec...
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#18This is a cool concept but this is so meta - it looks like my browser history recursed on itself lol
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#19Very nice! Suggestions: don't break the back-button; and make it somehow clearer that one can expand the recipes. As others I was also confused about "buy cookies in the store".
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#20For making the vegetables, you should have seeds as an ingredient. Then to make seeds you need the vegetables, so you could have a cycle in your dependency graph. Also you should keep adding recipes for seawater and soil etc until you have a recipe for creating the universe. And use an apple pie as your example recipe.
Haha. Yeah this is the chicken-and-egg problem. There are no cycles here since I'm working from the basis of primordial practical ingredients, in that each recipe should ideally boil down to just sun, soil, water, and seeds (be they fungi spores, cow embryo, chicken eggs, vegetable seeds, etc.). It would be neat to expand this to the universe though :)