All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

leontrolski

Neat. I'm trying to compress recipes into little schematics https://leontrolski.github.io/recipes.html

haaz

Published by Kaikaku, a London based startup doing automated restaurants and cooking

suddenlybananas

I don't see why the title needs to be quite so grandiose.

epsteingpt

The work is very interesting. The title is misleading. A better title would be: "all of human ingredients compressed into 1,800 primitives" There is little to substantively nothing about the actual cooking: preparation methods, proportions, etc. But the idea that tomato goes well with beef the whole world over is very interesting and useful for creating flavors that will go together, perhaps surprisingly. It will be a nice resource in the future.

Retr0id

> [Claude] performed all ingredient classification under deterministic decoding (temperature 0–0.1) Not that it matters much in this context, but low-temperature is not the same thing as deterministic.

pfdietz

Cooking condensed beyond the point of usefulness. It's another book for Zach Weinersmith.

antirez

Odd not including French and Italian recipes.

jweisbin

"human cooking"? ewww

1970-01-01

11 sources is not "all of" anything. You have a sample. The title is horrible. Fix the title please.

skinfaxi

Cooking/recipes seems like it would be an excellent application for a specialized model.

vitto_gioda

Why haven’t you analyzed Italian recipes in Italian?

nyokki

As someone learning to cook from recipes in multiple languages, this is really cool. Curious how it handles the same ingredient called by different names (e.g., "scallion" vs "green onion" vs "long onion").

baalimago

Great, so now chefs are being replaced too..!

throwme_123

I would not trust a model/corpus about food that includes English and German, but excludes Italian and French

coldtea

>from 11 sources spanning seven languages, English, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Turkish, Indonesian, German, and Indian-English So hardly "all of human cooking"...

vrganj

You can use it to browse flavor combinations here, seems quite neat! https://epicure.kaikaku.ai/ That being said, I'm not excited about the idea of this being used to automate cooking somehow. Food, to me, is part of what makes us human, where we express our soul for lack of a better word. The idea of taking that away feels like robbing us of our humanity.

cuechan

I don't really understand, what the Graphs on page 9 and 13 represent, but they look somewhat like a world map with the continents. I wouldn't be surprised if there's actually a geographic connection. A lot of ingrediants are probably more prevalent in certain world regions.

bhouston

I saw this on X/Twitter. I do not believe that human cooking, and all of its techniques and ingredients and the various ways that things can be prepared in different cultural contexts can be compressed in to 2 megabytes. It is sort of like saying here is a 1GB model that can do tool calling and coding and then you try it out and it barely functions. Yes, it technically is a 1GB coding model, but it isn't a good one.

jonstewart

Jacques Pepin's knuckles don't compress.

moffers

At uncook we’re in the middle of glamming up our ingredient normalization pipeline, so this is VERY welcome right now