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Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by tenthirtyam »

noduerme wrote: post #12

Haha. I'd suggest that what's missing in the um "latent space" here, is that the triangle should be a pentagon involving some form of bacon/sausage, and some form of potato. This cracked me up, because I had a fantastic dream the other night where I had a tour through a donut factory. But the best thing I had (in the dream) was something I'd never tried before, never seen, and which I intend to make at the earliest o…

I'd add oil as another dimension - sunflower oil, olive oil, butter, lard, whatever.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by DonHopkins »

ccppurcell wrote: post #51

Someone else may have said this but strictly speaking breakfast is something like a cone in a vector space, unless you want to explain to me how to eat negative eggs.

These are a Barycentric Coordinate System, so the weights on the targets are normalized, must sum to one, and must be positive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_coordinate_system

Barycentric coordinates are the local coordinate system inside a simplex. A simplicial complex is what you get when you glue multiple simplices together along shared k-faces for k = 0 … n -- vertices (0-faces), edges (1-faces), triangles (2-faces), tetrahedra (3-faces), and higher-dimensional faces -- to form a larger state space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicial_complex

It's not possible to have negative eggs, but you can apply the same machinery to many other things, like facial animation mesh blend shapes (Apple ARKit, Blender Blend Shapes and the FaceIt plugin, Unity SkinnedMeshRenderer, etc), where weights are often allowed to be overdriven >1 or even underdriven Nouveau Art Pipeline Demo: Blend Shapes:

https://youtu.be/phM8Wnzs_-g?t=104

(None of Epstein's spiritually close friends and shameless guru confidants were harmed or embarrassed in this demo, alas.)

Eric Hedman - "Doppel" Character Modelling with Blendshapes for Animation (ARKit):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L7jtgRD5rs

(Eric "Irk" Hedman designed and created the character animations and objects in The Sims 1, and as you can see is extremely skilled and delightful to work with! Hire him if you need professional high quality creative artwork and animation, and can pay him in bananas: https://erichedman.artstation.com/projects/8wJDgw )

Faceit: Facial Expressions And Performance Capture (Blender):

https://superhivemarket.com/products/faceit

Unity SkinnedMeshRenderer:

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReferenc...

Apple ARKit Tracking and visualizing faces:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ARKit/tracking-and...

ARFaceAnchor.BlendShapeLocation: Identifiers for specific facial features, for use with coefficients describing the relative movements of those features.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/arfaceanchor...

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#103

Post by roryirvine »

Tepix wrote: post #78

I sympathize with the author, I've had similar thoughts about snacks. We need more non-sweet snacks. Ideally something that tastes good, is not too salty, is healthy and satisfies your cravings.

Nuts (in the culinary sense) and cheese are good for that - a mini-cheeseboard with a couple of different bits of cheese (maybe 20-30g of each), a handful of cashews and walnuts, and maybe a dab of fig jam or membrillo on the side.

Tasty, nutrient-dense, surprisingly filling. Great as a mid-afternoon snack, or add some fruit and a bit of bread or some oatcakes to make it into a decent lunch.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#104

Post by VorpalWay »

fedeb95 wrote: post #77

where's porridge? Breakfast has way more dimensions.

I agree, that is an oversight.

Porridge is an extremely common breakfast here in Sweden. There is a huge number of different variations of it as well.

And then there is müsli, with and without yogurt / sour milk.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by bregma »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #75
opan wrote: post #68

Going against the spirit of TFA here, but I believe you can eat anything at any time of day, and my favorite breakfast tends to be regular food. Chili, soup, pasta, baked potatoes. Something warm, filling, and usually involving salt. I do sometimes have something more traditional, like oatmeal, but it's not as satisfying. I also sometimes have oatmeal as my final meal of the day if I'm hungry but already a bit tired,…

I really wonder why breakfast is the way it is, because since it's the first meal of the day, you'd think a big breakfast (e.g. dinner) would make sense as you need the calories during the (work)day. But maybe breakfast is relatively light because a lot of people have some digestive issues or sensitive stomachs in the mornings.

Circadian rhythm. In many people their liver releases a bunch of glucose right before waking, something diabetics term the "dawn effect" and need to control for. This helps get the metabolism going first thing in the morning (at least, in non-diabetics) and delays the need for caloric intake until later in the day. This effect is easily witnessed if you check your blood glucose before bed and when you rise in the morning: for example earlier in the week mine was around 5.4 mmol/L (normal) at bed time and 8.6 mmol/L (high for fasting blood glucose) before breakfast the next day.

A normal person will need caloric replenishment during the day, especially later in the day before (typically) an 8 to 10 hour fast during the night.

So, small proteine-heavy breakfast, large balanced dinner in the evening with a smaller balanced mid-day meal in the middle.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by CoastalCoder »

ccppurcell wrote: post #51

Someone else may have said this but strictly speaking breakfast is something like a cone in a vector space, unless you want to explain to me how to eat negative eggs.

> unless you want to explain to me how to eat negative eggs.

I'm sure there's a good joke in there involving trans-dimensional vegans, but I'm still on my first cup of coffee.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by bregma »

madduci wrote: post #105

It misses a lot of other breakfast options: - croissants - muesli/porridge/oatmeal - cookies - toasts - bread & butter (nutella too)

Things made of flour? I think they were explicitly covered. Perhaps "Flour" should have been more generally "Grain-based" to cover oatmeal and rye bread. Maybe add potatoes for a "starches" category.

What it's missing is fish, fruit, preserved meats (bacon, ham, sausage, black pudding?). It's very culturally biased to typical North American breakfast choices.

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