@mfk

General Partner, Near Horizon

 Oakland, CA
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Joined February 2009
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This weekend, I had a chance to document one of my hobbies: 🍣
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Special order: Hokkaido scallop sashimi plate!
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Forgot alt text for the previous tweet: plate of scallop sashimi arranged in rings, garnished with rings of thinly sliced cucumber.
Five minutes later, we're definitely approaching flavor town! This ~20 minutes total so far.
Three onions cooked down in a cast iron skillet on a stove top, much more brown than the before, but still a bit more cooking to go

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24 minutes in: flavor town! We have caramelized onions!
3 caramelized onions in a stainless steel skillet that has considerable discoloration from cooking the onions down.

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And the final product in a white bowl to give a better sense for their color.
Caramelized onions in a white bowl.

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I've been making my own hot sauces for a few years now, and I'm pretty pleased with how my 2022 hot sauces have turned out! 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Four bottles of hot sauces, labeled: Vesuvius, Pinatubo, Krakatoa, Tambora.

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In a delicious collab with my wife, we made another hot sauce we're calling "Hot Sweet Mess". It's a blend of mostly her garden-grown tomatillo salsa + some Ritchie's hot sauce.
One bottle of "Hot Sweet Mess" hit sauce.

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The tomatillo salsa gives the sauce a sweet, well-rounded base (some nice umami notes as well). Ritchie's brings the 🌶️🔥!
For YEARS after leaving grad school, you could still get me to do consulting for you for tacos and beer.
Mike Kim@mfk22 Sep 2022
Replying to @triketora
You can take someone out of grad school, but you can't take grad school out of them. 🤣
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If you haven't been to a grill-it-yourself Korean BBQ place with somebody who knows how to order and how to properly cook -- you're missing out! Case in point: Grill the kimchi. I've even made pork belly kimchi stir fry right on the grill.
Mike Kim@mfk20 Aug 2022
Replying to @kangaroo5383
💯Grilling brings out a whole new flavor dimension -- Maillard reaction FTW! It pairs really well with meats (e.g., with grilled pork belly, or as a hamburger topping), and is also delightful on its own as a side dish.
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TIL that if the computer in your car malfunctions because of low voltage (i.e., your battery needs to be replaced soon), this can cause your transmission to misbehave in "interesting" ways like shifting into reverse when you put your car into drive.
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This reminds me of when I was just starting out in long distance running. I completed my first 10 mile run, and it was a grueling experience. After the run, over brunch, I asked my (far more experienced) running buddies, "Does it ever get easier?"
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After a moment of quiet, one by one, they each burst into uncontrollable laughter. Finally one of them recovers from his laughing fit long enough to tell me: "No, man. It never gets easier. You just run farther and faster."
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Coach @karalawson20 absolutely nails it here. 💯
How many of the challenges facing data science / analytics teams today are technical problems rather than process issues? Or asked another way, when data teams run into problems, do we need better tools or to use the tools we have better?
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This quote has been on my mind a lot lately: We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training. - Archilochus
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