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🎧 A computer learns about ingredients and recipes | Eat This Podcast

Listened to A computer learns about ingredients and recipes by Jeremy Cherfas from Eat This Podcast Perhaps you've heard about IBM's giant Watson computer, which dispenses ingredient advice and novel recipes. Jaan Altosaar, a PhD candidate at Princeton University, is working on a recipe recommendation engine that anyone can use. If possible, click to play, otherwise your browser may be unable to play this audio file. download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Support this podcast: on Patreon Back

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🎧 Seeing White, episodes 31-34 | Scene on Radio

Listened to Seeing White (Parts 1-4) by John Biewen with special guest Chenjerai Kumanyika from Scene on Radio A podcast series from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University explores what it means to be White. Part 1: Turning the Lens (February 15, 2017) Events of the past few years have turned a challenging spotlight on White people, and Whiteness, in the United States. An introduction to our series exploring what it means to be White. By John Biewen, with special guest Chenjerai Kumanyika. a

🎧 What a Cool New Podcast About Shipping Can Teach You About Coffee | Bite (Mother Jones)

This is a cool new podcast I hadn’t come across before. This particular episode is a bit similar to my favorite podcast Eat This Podcast, though as a broader series it appears to focus more on culture and society rather than the more scientific areas that ETP tends to focus on, and which I prefer. The bulk of this episode, which discusses shipping and containers (really more than food or coffee which is only a sub-topic here), reminds me of the book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller

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My 2017 Podcast Listening

As the year draws to a close, I thought I’d do a look over the Podcasts I’ve been listening to this year, vaguely sorted according to topic. As I’ve written about before, my tinnitus levels and other hearing issues have worsened of late, so much so that I can’t listen to many otherwise excellent podcasts which have poor audio quality. I know this is a niche complaint, but, seriously podcasters, recording a skype session with all its artifacting and echoing means that your fabulous interview with that exciti

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Reflecting on the Voices in the Village 2017

A reflection on the comments on my blog(s) that have pushed my thinking this year So often at this time of year people publish lists of posts that received the most views, what interests me though is not the number of hits on my site, but the comments that have pushed my thinking. As Robert Schuetz explains, Comments are like the marshmallows in Lucky Charms, the sugary goodness that adds flavor to our day. Comments turn posts into conversations. For the last two years (2015 and 2016) I have looked bac

Happy Fornicalia

Celebrating the Ancient Roman religious festival in honor of the goddess Fornax

Following Duncan Stephen

Duncan Stephen (Duncan Stephen) Digital strategist and designer His writing in A Brutal Redesign is similar to some of the issues I’ve come across. Curious to see where things evolve on his site. h/t Jeremy Cherfas via reading.am Syndicated copies to: Author: Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publish

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Oh wow -- this looks amazing. I love the idea of mixing data sources like this. One reason I love @wikidata which would make it even easier.

👓 Climate Change Is Messing With Your Dinner | Bloomberg

Climate Change Is Messing With Your Dinner by Agnieszka de Sousa and Hayley Warren (Bloomberg.com) The future of food looks like lots of lobsters, Polish chardonnay and California coffee. This is a difficult story to tell, though the timelapse imagery here is relatively useful. If one had some extra money lying around, it certainly indicates which crops one could be shorting in the markets over the next few decades. I can imagine Jeremy Cherfas doing something interesting and more personalizing with this t

👓 New Communities Can Be Overwhelming | David Wolfpaw

Replied to New Communities Can Be Overwhelming by David Wolfpaw (davidwolfpaw.com) I’ve been paying a lot more attention to the IndieWeb space this year, with the intention of revamping my lifelogging site to both include more services that I still use (and remove the fitness tracking that I decided to stop), as well as become a repository for webmentions. David, Welcome! Come on in, the water’s fine… I remember lurking for over a year and a half before dipping a toe in for the first time myself. Everyone

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Some ideas about tags, categories, and metadata for online commonplace books and search

Earlier this morning I was reading The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags and the discussion of topics versus objects got me thinking about semantics on my website in general. People often ask why WordPress has both a Category and a Tag functionality, and to some extent it would seem to be just for this thing–differentiating between topics and objects–or at least it’s how I have used it and perceived others doing so as well. (Incidentally from a functionality perspective categories in the WordPress taxono

Extending a User Interface Idea for Social Reading Online

This morning I was reading an article online and I bookmarked it as “read” using the Reading.am browser extension which I use as part of my workflow of capturing all the things I’ve been reading on the internet. (You can find a feed of these posts here if you’d like to cyber-stalk most of my reading–I don’t post 100% of it publicly.) I mention it because I was specifically intrigued by a small piece of excellent user interface and social graph data that Reading.am unearths for me. I’m including a quick scre

👓 Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits | The Atlantic

Read Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits (The Atlantic) There’s a scientific reason no one outside the South can nail them. Anyone who follows Jeremy Cherfas‘ Eat This Podcast (or specifically his excellent microcast series Our Daily Bread) would have seen this one coming from a mile away. One can get some reasonably flaky and tender biscuits (and not hockey pucks as she describes) with all purpose flour using harder wheat, but having the alternate version certainly makes a nice difference.

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IndieWebCamp Utrecht, Day 1: Readers, Discovery, Federated Search and More

It was a beautiful morning, cycling along the canal in Utrecht, for the first IndieWebCamp. In the offices of shoppagina.nl about a dozen people found each other for a day of discussions, demo’s and other sessions on matters of independent web activities. As organisers Frank and I aimed to not just discuss the IndieWeb as such, but also how to tap into the more general growing awareness of what the silos mean for online discourse. To seek connection with other initiatives and movements of similar minded peo

🎧 Food waste is #Solvable | The Rockefeller Foundation

Listened to Food waste is #Solvable from The Rockefeller Foundation Ahmed Ali Akbar talks to activist and author Tristram Stuart about using food scraps to eliminate waste.</> Tristam Stuart is an international author, speaker, and campaigner on the environmental and social impacts of food. He is the founder of Feedback, an environmental campaigning organization that has worked in dozens of countries to change society’s attitude towards wasting food. His TED Talk on global food waste has reached over 1.5 m

Read Modern Recipes: A Case of Miscommunication by Peter Hertzmann (dl.hertzmann.com) Chef and food instructor takes a look at the history of recipes and how they're frequently misinterpreted. (Hat tip to Jeremy Cherfas and his excellent Eat This Podcast episode Making sense of modern recipes: It’s not your fault; even professional chefs encounter problems for directing me to Hertzmann’s paper; some of my favorite episodes feature Jeremy interviewing him.) Keep in mind that the paper which is highlighted a

Followed Adam’s Apples

Followed Adam's Apples (Adam's Apples) Hundreds of apples, plus notes and comment on the harvest and more. An eleven year old continuously running blog dedicated to apples? Yes, please! Sign me up. I can only imagine that my following it is going to prompt a future interview by Jeremy Cherfas presuming he may not have come across this before. hat tip: Jeremy Felt and his obsession with apples Subscribed! The most perfect blog is this: https://t.co/IKnwuUEmSc 300+ reviews of apple varieties and news abo

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The importance of bread in society: the etymology of Lord

In listening to The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition by Seth Lerer (Lecture 8), I came across an interesting word etymology which foodies and particularly bread fans will appreciate. Dr. Lerer was talking about the compression of syllables at the border of Old English and Middle English circa 1100 which occurred in such terms as hlaf weard, the warden (or guardian) of the loaf. Who is the guardian of the loaf? The hlfaf weard << The hlaweard << the laweard << the lord. This is the etymology of t

Read The discovery metadata field by Matt Maldre (Matt Maldre) The internet would be a really interesting place if every article that was shared automatically had a “via link.” Ok, so the internet is already interesting. But what makes the internet such a great place is its connectivity. Everything is linked together. We can easily share a link to an article. So many links all … The discovery metadata field Read More » I’ve been fascinated with this idea of vias, hat tips, and linking credit (a la the defunct Curator’s Code) just like Jeremy Cherfas. I have a custom field in my site for collecting these details sometimes, but I should get around to automating it and showing it on my pages rather than doing it manually. Links like these seem like throwaways, but they can have a huge amount of value in aggregate. As an example, if I provided the source of how I found this article, then it’s likely that my friend Matt would then be able to see a potential treasure trove of information about the exact same topic which he’s sure to have a lot of interest in as well. One of the things I love about webmentions is that these sorts of links to give credit could be used to create bi-directional links between sites as well. I’m half-tempted to start using custom experimental microformats classes on these links so that when the idea takes off that people could potentially display them in their comments sections as such instead of just vanilla “mentions”. This could be useful for sites that serve as inspiration in much the same way that journalistic outlets might display reads (versus bookmarks, likes, or reposts) or podcasts could display listens. Just imagine the power that displaying webmentions on wikis could have for their editors to later update pages or readers might have to delve into further resources that mention and link to those pages, especially when the content on those linked pages extends the ideas? Tim Berners-Lee’s original proposal for hypertext was rejected because it didn’t bake bi-directional links into the web (c.f. Webstock ‘18: Jeremy Keith – Taking Back The Web at 13:39 into the video). Webmentions seems to be a simple way of ensconcing them after-the-fact, but in a way that makes them more resilient as well as update-able and even delete-able by either side. Of course now I come to wonder just how it was that Jeremy Cherfas finds such a deep link on Matt’s site from over a year ago? 😉 ↬ Jeremy Cherfas‘ update on the IndieWeb wiki ᔥ the IndieWeb-meta chat (2020-01-29) Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich Format LinkPosted on January 29, 2020 10:55 amFebruary 8, 2020Author Chris AldrichCategories Read, Social StreamTags brainstorm, citations, Curator's Code, discovery, hat tip, IndieWeb, microformats, via, Webmention, wikisSyndicated copies: Related Posts

I’ve been fascinated with this idea of vias, hat tips, and linking credit (a la the defunct Curator’s Code) just like Jeremy Cherfas. I have a custom field in my site for collecting these details sometimes, but I should get around to automating it and showing it on my pages rather than doing it manually. Links like these seem like throwaways, but they can have a huge amount of value in aggregate. As an example, if I provided the source of how I found this article, then it’s likely that my friend Matt would

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Have intended to give sourdough a go for a little while now, so with it being the Thing To Do while we are hunkered down in our vaults, I decided now was the time. Got some great advice from Jeremy Cherfas over at Micro.blog on getting a starter going, so thanks to him. Started one last weekend and then this weekend made my first loaf. Really quite pleased with it. More dense than I hoped but was even textured and tasted delicious.

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No doubt many have already seen that Springer has released about 500 books for free during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Springer, these textbooks will be available free of charge until at least the end of July. A bit of Googling will reveal people who’ve already written some code to quickly download them all in bulk as well. I’m happy with doing things manually as there’s only a handful of the 8GB of textbooks I’m interested in. Browsing through, I’ll note a few that look interesting and which foodies like my friend Jeremy Cherfas may enjoy. (Though I suspect he’s likely read them already, but just in case…) Food Analysis, ed. S. Suzanne Nielsen Food Analysis Laboratory Manual by S. Suzanne Nielsen Brewing Science: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Michael Mosher and Kenneth Trantham Food Fraud Prevention: Introduction, Implementation, and Management by John W. Spink Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media. View all posts by Chris Aldrich Format StatusPosted on April 28, 2020 9:01 amAuthor Chris AldrichCategories Education, Food, Mathematics, Social StreamTags coronavirus, Springer, textbooksSyndicated copies: WordPress icon Related Posts

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