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Re: A Periodic Map of Cheese

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That website is so low effort that 2s is actually long to figure it out. Very sure that it is robot upvoted. Edit: I live in the cheese triangle, France - Switzerland - Italy.

Not everyone votes based on effort. The idea might be interesting to people and provoke discussion no matter how much time OP (?) spent creating it.

Vibe voting. No brain cells required.

Re: A Periodic Map of Cheese

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Perhaps cheese from Mad Max: Fury Road Mother’s milk. Theoretically Lions etc, could be milked. As could some whales. This is left as an exercise for the reader.

> Theoretically Lions etc, could be milked

I hope you are talking about lionesses... As a reader, there are some exercises I would rather not do.

Re: A Periodic Map of Cheese

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I don't know if it's just me, but having built enough websites with AI tools, I'm 99% sure this site has been built with AI. Nothing wrong with that, but the AI look makes me doubt the content is also just put together by AI.

It's missing the characteristic element of a periodic table, which is both a visual and explanatory representation of the relationship between the composition of the different substances and their properties.

The concept is there, but it is presented as a regular table, not the classical periodic table.

The notion of "missing e̶l̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ cheeses" is entertaining, and the only real reference to the actual periodic table.

Re: A Periodic Map of Cheese

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Since we're a bunch of nerds here, just wanted to throw this out there: cheesemaking is really, really fun. I highly recommend it.

I lived five minutes from a dairy farmer in Japan and he sold it to me for around a dollar a liter, so I made cheese dozens of times. Depending on where you live, finding low-heat pasteurized milk might be tricky, but if you can get fresh milk and pasteurize yourself, I really recommend trying it out.

If you're thinking of giving it a try, start with feta. With feta, flooring the PH is okay, which is a big no-no for most other cheeses (where you usually try to nail around 5.4). Since feta gets brined anyway, you don't have to mess around with an ideal fermentation environment (that being said, vacuum packing some cheeses avoids this anyway). Finally, feta has a very short aging period so you can dive in and try your first cheese sooner than later.

Re: A Periodic Map of Cheese

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This website lists no sources, no author, and all of the content is littered with traces of being AI-generated (both in the table and in the descriptions). It seems hard to trust any piece of it that you don't already know in advance to be true, which feels pretty useless.

Flag-worthy if you ask me.

Re: A Periodic Map of Cheese

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This website lists no sources, no author, and all of the content is littered with traces of being AI-generated (both in the table and in the descriptions). It seems hard to trust any piece of it that you don't already know in advance to be true, which feels pretty useless. Flag-worthy if you ask me.

It's also the first time I've heard of cheese made of Horse milk which feels like the absurd sort of thing you'd get if you kept prompting AI to "find the rarest types of cheese".

Re: A Periodic Map of Cheese

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I don't know if it's just me, but having built enough websites with AI tools, I'm 99% sure this site has been built with AI. Nothing wrong with that, but the AI look makes me doubt the content is also just put together by AI.

I dunno, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool, certified AI hater, and even I don't really care if this is AI or not. The cheeses I am aware of match their descriptions well, and if AI let some guy make this in like fifteen minutes so I can read this silly, fun site on the toilet at work, that's fine to me.

Aren’t you concerned with consuming made up information? There has to be a million fun silly sites you haven’t read that a real person put real research and real effort into. LLMs just can’t do stuff like this accurately right now.

Re: A Periodic Map of Cheese

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I don't know if it's just me, but having built enough websites with AI tools, I'm 99% sure this site has been built with AI. Nothing wrong with that, but the AI look makes me doubt the content is also just put together by AI.

why would you say 99% or even qualify it? Just say maybe we shouldn't be promoting one-shot 30-second AI outputs.
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