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Another big annoyance is websites with recipes that do any of the following indcredibly bad UX patterns: - Big white page not showing any text or images until the entire page and its assets are downloaded, which means if you accidentally click something and go back you have to wait another several seconds for everything to load again - Pop up GDPR popup while hands are covered in flour and eggs - Pop up "would you li…
You just described all websites
No need to spend hours trying to get the text extraction just right - pass the raw extraction into GPT and ask for it to give you the recipe.
I was thinking the same thing. Extraction and basic formatting of information from human language is something that LLMs excel at. Especially if the result is being shown to a human so small mistakes can be tolerated.
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It could also dramatically increase quality, look at the below from the example PDF from the page: > Garlic balsamic chicken, you'll be making over and over. By sear your chicken. I resin wine. Grab yourself a nice large bowl, extra virgin and olive oil. Balsamic glaze. Tomato paste. Honey, fresh lemon juice, garlic, Oregano fresh thyme, coat my chicken with this beautiful balsamic, no balsamic, left behind. Don't yo…
It's a little confused about it though.. It's not clear in the gpt version that "balsamic glaze" is what you are making by mixing the ingredients together, and makes it sound rather like some other ingredient you are mixing in. Granted, we have to decipher that a little bit in the first one too, but its not nearly as bad.
When I was fresh out of college my wife and I tried to make some sort of recipe with hamburger and flour. I now know and understand it was trying to get us to make a roux [1] and then mix the hamburger into that. But it described the steps for that very simply and directly with no way to know when to stop cooking the roux, and I had no idea what a roux was at the time. So we ended up with one of the worst meals I've ever cooked: Browned hamburger mixed in soggy raw flour. Heck, I wasn't even salting anything properly then, so it would be unseasoned browned hamburger in soggy raw flour.
As cash-strapped as I was at the time, that one still went in the trash. If I recall even the dog was not impressed.
Many years later I saw the Good Eats episode on roux and the light bulb went off.
Mind you, even made properly what I recall of that recipe would be something more like a base to further spice and use with something else rather than a meal. It was a supposed to be a simple recipe, but it was really too simple. But it would at least be an edible base for further elaboration.
Since then I've been on the lookout for recipes that are clearly invoking some cooking technique but don't really describe it correctly, either because they assume you already know it, or it is straight-up just described wrong. There's a lot of them. The "Internet Cookbook" is full of ideas and I like it for that, but it's quite caveat emptor when it comes to following recipes directly. The skills to make a recipe website, SEO it so it actually gets hits, keep all the ads working, and get pretty cooking pictures don't overlap much with the skill of writing a good recipe.
[1]: https://www.seriouseats.com/a-brief-guide-to-roux#toc-what-i...
I kind of wrote something for this a few years ago: https://github.com/rberenguel/glancer [edited a fat-fingered copy-paste] The use-case is technical videos (like from conferences) I’m interested, but not enough to invest 20-60 minutes. Haven’t used it in a few months so the yt-dlp commands may need updating.
Sadly getting a 404 here–maybe this is a private repository?
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Another big annoyance is websites with recipes that do any of the following indcredibly bad UX patterns: - Big white page not showing any text or images until the entire page and its assets are downloaded, which means if you accidentally click something and go back you have to wait another several seconds for everything to load again - Pop up GDPR popup while hands are covered in flour and eggs - Pop up "would you li…
I've started copying these recipes into Crouton https://crouton.app/ It does a remarkable job at extracting the recipes, and the end result is a consistent experience no matter the source.
Definitely would use this. Instructional video instead of step-by-step text is a personal pet peeve. I know it's a lot easier to just record a video to show something like "how to replace the battery on a cordless vacuum" or "removing a sink basin nut" but it's often such a painful experience for consumption (watch a moment, pause, scrub back and watch again, pause, continue, pause, all with potentially gloved hands…
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It's a little confused about it though.. It's not clear in the gpt version that "balsamic glaze" is what you are making by mixing the ingredients together, and makes it sound rather like some other ingredient you are mixing in. Granted, we have to decipher that a little bit in the first one too, but its not nearly as bad.
It's a balsamic vinegar glaze, which is an ingredient, not what you get when you mix the ingredients together. That's why it refers to a 'balsamic mixture' once it's mixed in with other things. I actually think it's the opposite - the GPT version is clear and the non-GPT version confused you into thinking that a balsamic glaze is Tomato paste. Honey, Lemon, Garlic etc mixed together. This is what you need: https://ww…
I actually wonder if in the limit of video encoding we could just get a diffusion model that can in real time render realistic video based on a script. Then downloading a movie is just downloading a few megabytes of a prompt and you get a movie playing based off it locally.
For some reason I though the goal was to print (with a 3d printer) a 3d projection of the 4d content of the video. That would be cool...