First, what is the benefit of using this over something established like fddb or any already existing nutritional app?
Second, just translating the words for the units (like cup) doesn't work, because for example while "szklanka", the Polish word for glass, is indeed used in Polish recipes, there it means more something along the lines of "just grab whatever standard glass you have, it will be fine". It explicitly does not mean a unit of measurement of 236 ml.
Third, since you are using a US source you fall into the trap of US defaultism here. The way carbohydrates are labeled is different around the world and I think only the US does this weird thing where you have to manually subtract the dietary fiber from the total carbohydrates. This matters because you essentially give non-US users (and definitely users from the EU) plainly incorrect amounts of labeled carbohydrates.
All in all, cute project and good on you trying to tackle it. It looks okay though the AI smells bother me personally, but I don't think nutritional data is a great place to start for such a project and honestly I will not remember your site in a few days anymore.
I had a similar thought. What if the result, statistical and significance critique aside, mostly means that when it comes to first-year tutoring of law students, the vibe, tone and overall presentation of arguments weighs a lot, maybe even more than the factual arguments themselves?
In such a framing I don't find it surprising at all that teachers prefer the more polished answers generated by AI, because if LLMs are good at one thing, it is being confident in whatever they generate and present it convincingly.
I would say that a big part of research in Ye Old Days was either your local peers and colleagues but especially it was exchanging letters with the known Big Names in their respective fields. It is not without reason that nowadays that correspondence between researchers is a great source of insight.
I am apparently someone who did not quite catch up to the AI lingo, so parts of the explanation are confusing to me (what is a "vault", why does this thing do stuff in a "loop", how is this more "agentic" than a cronjob).
Is my understanding correct that a normal LLM is stateless in the sense that when you talk to it today about frying pans, it does not remember that you spoke about fried rice yesterday? Is this solution effectively adding Markdown files as part of the prompt? Essentially writing into a file "whenever I talk about scripting, I explicitly mean the zsh"?
This gives me weird, cultish vibes. It has an uncomfortable US-American "forced-smileness" to it that I honestly find off-putting. But maybe I have been too much in a secular and non religious bubble the last few years and that made me hope that religion is finally leaving the science and IT space for good.
Really good looking!
Interesting UI/UX insight: I kinda expect to be able to "go back" by inverting the coordinates. So when I have one glyph in focus and select a new one two to the left and five down, I would love to be able to go back by selecting five up and two right to find the "old" glyph. Not sure how well this can be implemented.
Well, that is obvious, is it not? It means They are interested in The Plan and have enough power that a vague comment is all you gonna get. Cannot have Them finding out that we are on to Them. Though of course, The Plan already accounts for that, so They already know and will do Something about it. Want facts? Wake up, do your Research!
I think that as a user I'm so far removed from the actual (human) creation of software that if I think about it, I don't really care either way.
Take for example this article on Hacker News: I am reading it in a custom app someone programmed, which pulls articles hosted on Hacker News which themselves are on some server somewhere and everything gets transported across wires according to a specification. For me, this isn't some impressionist painting or heartbreaking poem - the entity that created those things is so far removed from me that it might be artificial already.
And that's coming from a kid of the 90s with some knowledge in cyber security, so potentially I could look up the documentation and maybe even the source code for the things I mentioned; if I were interested.
Ok, as someone for whom a Pinecone is the thing you can collect in the forest to burn so that your campfire makes nice sounds, what's the elevator pitch?