{"id":4367,"date":"2014-04-13T08:46:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T14:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2014-04-13T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T14:58:53","slug":"the-joy-of-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=4367","title":{"rendered":"The joy of cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/crockpots.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4374\" alt=\"crockpots\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/crockpots.jpg?resize=500%2C222&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/crockpots.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/crockpots.jpg?resize=300%2C133&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/max-levchin.html\">From<\/a> Max Levchin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I relax by fine-tuning various kitchen processes and recipes using approaches borrowed from\u00a0genetic algorithms. I approach a recipe as if it were a genome where every ingredient and process in the recipe is a gene that I modify randomly. I use a computer program so the modifications are truly random. I basically recombine the genetic makeup of the best recipes over and over again until I come up with what tastes the best.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It never really struck me before, but I do something very similar when I decide which combination of condiments to put on a hot dog.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lambj\/3605664606\/in\/photolist-7z6XYL-eeJFQD-jsPRMA-fzUsnq-hyEtaE-dNx7Np-9aqRsS-i3LfbL-hWsyaF-6uBYt9-fNDHMV-dNCHmd-hmyH8-iM8Bvd-ekgdKG-fMJr5u-9uSSit-fMJr8Y-bSG4o6-df71fu-fMrRfi-3JJxZ3-78SBHu-dmD6b9-dmD3vK-7BkkJr-JBm8p-9kZpe-9fr3qL-EZKGE-EZKJW-EZLwT-4oDXaJ-e17YJ6-4n8Ba1-4iJv5c-ehJdBs-iXj3GW-b9NhSP-iMaMYf-iXkSeE-ad8oBq-4wLMaX-4uiWng-4Eghjf-bDgXMt-9eJ3UY-9MgHdN-5ubtpa-97E6Rp\/\"><em>Jennifer Lamb<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Max Levchin: I relax by fine-tuning various kitchen processes and recipes using approaches borrowed from\u00a0genetic algorithms. I approach a recipe as if it were a genome where every ingredient and process in the recipe is a gene that I modify randomly. I use a computer program so the modifications are truly random. I basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-levchin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}