Great project and build. I wonder if using a small fan would not help energy transmission, which is eventually the goal of cooking. It may also make the oven work like it’s at higher température while not consuming much energy. It would discharge energy from the walls faster using convection in addition to radiation.
Plus, you can experiment with tray materials depending on what you want to cook.
Suggestions inspired by my experience with convection/classic oven and copper pizza plates
It seems that any problem solving starts by defining the data.
« Always define your variables » is the first thing I learned during my engineering studies, in both math and physics class. Professors were insisting a lot about it. I still consider it is the most important thing I ever learned 10 years later.
Sure, and it's often warranted to be cynical about this, but the work about the work is really really important. Often the lower level worker thinks they do everything and the upper levels just chat and politick around. E.g. if you're a truck driver you may think you are the one doing the real work. But if the bosses miscalculate if it's profitable to enter into a relationship with a customer and haul their stuff from A to B, your job won't exist. If the product managers decide to build a product that nobody will need and buy, then you can do your best engineering work and it will be for nothing. If you're a construction worker operating the drill to build a subway line, it may feel like the bosses are just having meetings and fun chats all the time, but it matters where the metro is built, they have to balance lots of interests and talk to lots of people. Real estate prices will be impacted, noise will be impacted, more people will start to show up in some places, convenience will be impacted, all that needs to be balanced with the soil situation, underground waters, etc. etc.
Decide what work should be done is just as important as the actual work, sometimes more.
That’s powerful. Most of the differences I can see between AI generated output and human output comes from the « broad but specific » context of the task. I mean company culture, organization rules and politics, larger team focus and way of working.
It may take time to build the required knowledge bases but it must be worth it
Interesting site ! There is something playful in the idea of ambigrams that I can’t explain. Maybe something like a puzzle ?
A nice project could be to automate a generator. It must be quite hard because it feels like a mix between a Captcha and an AI hallucination but made right. The « glyph » search part of the site is maybe the best asset to start with a database of possible matches.
Image Diffusion models are already capable of this. There was a research paper and I believe model was released as well, which ch generates visual illusions where an image when flipped becomes something else.
Same idea here. A text needs to be diffused from two views until it looks the same but still matches the input. It might already exist.
Building one is definitely a puzzle. And trying to read it upside down/flipped without actually flipping it is also a kind of puzzle (i.e. like trying to run a compilation in your head, trying to see in your mind first before "running"/"compiling" the program).
They're also like the made-up language from the movie Arrival. You kind of need to know the end and the beginning at the same time.
I wonder how good GenAI is in generating ambigrams. I know they're very good in generating those visual illusions of having a face in a landscape. Perhaps that can be the next "Pelican test" once the Pelican test has been completely absorbed in training.
It is exactly what makes the difference between good and bad experience, both for users and engineers. A well designed system is both easy to use and to maintain or improve. It looks simple, but it is not. It’s both leadership and craftsmanship at its peak.
Not that sure. I know Bosch, Liebherr and Samsung fridges bought in the 2000’s that lasted 10+ years, some of them that keeps running even after being used heavily (being moved, used by families of 5…etc). They are repairable and some got repaired. They are 2-3000€+. Which is 2-3x the average monthly salary.
An other thing to account for is the price of repairs. If your appliances costs less than one hour of a mid-skill technician, it’s hard to justify the spending. Same for doing it yourself if you’re time is worth a lot. The only solution is to by high end, which is always risky and more cash intensive. Most people will prefer buying cheap and change to new if required
You start by saying "not that sure" but then continue to support my point. So now I'm also not that sure what you mean.
3000€+ in the early 2000s is easily 5000€ today accounting for inflation. Even if you mean they are 3000€ today, at that price point the market is needle thin. The best selling fridges on Amazon.de right now are in the 300€ region, maybe 500-600€ if you want to go "premium". So you're saying a fridge that's 10-15 times more expensive than the cheap best sellers is also better.
This is exactly the quality/price trap. People remember the quality from "way back when" but forget the price. We mostly just traded quality/longevity for cheaper and faster replacement. Quality didn't necessarily go down, it's just people target cheaper products today.
