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McDonald’s Expands AI Ambitions With ArchIQ Drive-Thru Pilot at Five Locations

McDonald’s is testing a new artificial intelligence-powered drive-thru ordering system, known as ArchIQ, at five restaurant locations as th...

EveryPlate Is Quite Simply the Best Low-Cost Meal Kit I’ve Tried

EveryPlate is an actual budget meal kit whose plates taste delicious. Options and ingredients are fewer, but simplicity can also be a virtue.

China goes after 'ghost kitchens' to rein in cutthroat food delivery apps

The thousands of "ghost kitchens" - online shops that don't actually exist - have spooked Chinese consumers.

This $300 pizza oven can easily help elevate your summer pizza nights | TechCrunch

The Ninja Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven is aimed at people who want delicious pizza nights without having to deal with things like propane or wood pellets, unlike many other pizza ovens.

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These Robots Are Making Meals for a Nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin

A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.

The quadratic sandwich

If you have ever tried to minimize a function with gradient descent, you probably noticed that some functions are a joy to optimize and others are a nightmare. The difference often boils down to two properties: strong convexity and L-smoothness. These two concepts define a “sandwich” of quadratic bounds around your function that tells you exactly how well-behaved it is. If the sandwich is tight, life is good. If one slice of bread is missing, things get ugly fast.

Let the AI cook | ivan.codes

AI coding works when the stack is right and the developer has the experience to trust the output. Most of the elaborate workflows being shared are people getting in their own way.