[zhte415]

https://recipenlg.cs.put.poznan.pl/generator linked in the Github page was looking good until

> Second step is to fill Additional information. First of them - an email address.

> Someone may ask: 'Why Recipe Generator might need my email address?' That's a pretty good question, especially when you concern your privacy, but the answer is rather straightforward. Recipe Generator is quite a complex piece of software and it needs some time to prepare your recipe, especially when there are many orders. The generator will email you a recipe as soon as it's ready, so you don't have to keep hanging on the website.

> Recipe Generator is not only excellent artificial chef, but also very caring about it's customers privacy, so after he emails you a recipe, he immediately forgets the address (that's why you have to provide it many times).

I think you have a great tool if it works, pretty well monetised if you want to go that route, but I cannot tell if it works and am not willing to submit an email address, sorry. So, just some basic potential user feedback. Perhaps a tool for more, of course.

[mbien]

Perfectly understood! We just cannot afford to run it on GPU in the backend so the generation takes up to 3 minutes which is terrible thing to do interactively :( You're invited to check it with 10minutemail or so, or you can try our model on your own if you have some python experience: https://huggingface.co/mbien/recipenlg

[senko]

For privacy conscious and if you're willing to go that far[0], you can generate a unique URL for a recipe and store it for a limited amount of time. With that (and the URL being generated beforehand), you can tell the user to either provide an email address so you can email them, or just to visit the link later and check if the recipe is ready.

[0] Personally I wouldn't worry. It's open source and people can run it themselves if they're squeamish, and probably your time would be better spent on the engine itself :-)

[vSanjo]

If you don't mind me asking, how much does it cost per recipe(s) on CPU vs GPU?

I also wouldn't mind waiting 3 minutes if there was a direction telling me so, with a timer.

[mbien]

Hard to say per recipe, as in the current setup they are generated on demand and not pre-generated. But as you can see, we're hosting the solution in academia so it's basically for free vs around 2$/hour with GPU on AWS

Yes, you might be right about the timer, we'll think about changing it!

[9dev]

How about using browser notifications? That way, one could leave the website, receive a notification about data being ready, and click on it to find the generated recipe.

[seszett]

It does take a long while though (I have been waiting for... I didn't pay attention but more than 15 minutes) so I can understand how using email would be the easiest solution for them.

I'm willing to make many concessions anyway to get something that is as good as Chef Watson was. Losing this was a real tragedy.

[mbien]

yes, we got quite a long queue :D

[thanksforthe42]

Just curious, why don't you have a spam email in 2020?

I have over 20 email addresses and only use 3 daily/phone notifications.

Not defending the practice, but I'm genuinely curious why this is a deal breaker.

[zhte415]

I don't like alt accounts. And while I have a couple of alt emails for 'emergency purposes' I don't like logging into them because that defeats the purpose. That's all.