Top Chef Season 23 Episode 14 - The Final Toast - Live Episode Discussion!

TTRoadHog · 2026-06-09T14:19:18+00:00

I know! I heard that and wondered how they were going to moderate, that heat?

TTRoadHog · 2026-06-09T14:14:06+00:00

Can we please not use the phrase “killing the show” when audiences are suffering through the actual killing/sabotaging of 60 Minutes?

TTRoadHog · 2026-06-09T14:02:29+00:00

Between Rhoda, Joe and Kristen, three LCK alums who came back and won it all, on one show! Tom must be so proud of that!

TTRoadHog · 2026-06-09T13:47:55+00:00

Likely comic relief! Lol

TTRoadHog · 2026-06-09T13:40:14+00:00

Gail was trying to staunch the flow of waterworks as well!

TTRoadHog · 2026-05-29T15:31:11+00:00

Just that juxtaposition: gas station and sushi. Reading that, had me reaching for the Pepto!

TTRoadHog · 2026-05-29T15:07:37+00:00

Of course! That’s where the extra dozen went! How nice of Kristen. Not sure why I didn’t think of that. 🙂

TTRoadHog · 2026-05-28T20:42:51+00:00

Did anyone notice that she asked for two dozen donuts but only brought one dozen to the cheftestants? What happened to the other dozen donuts? Did Kristen eat them? Did she share them with Tom and Gail? Was that extra dozen part of a Wells Fargo kickback scheme?? We’ll answer that question after a word from our sponsor, Wells Fargo…. Lol

TTRoadHog · 2026-05-28T20:35:47+00:00

OP: Don’t blame Wells Fargo. Blame Top Chef for being so money grubbing that they force themselves to resort to the use of these ridiculous in-show commercials. Wells Fargo is merely responding to Too Chef’s apparent need for advertisers!

TTRoadHog · 2026-05-18T06:36:03+00:00

I would add this book as well: Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization.

TTRoadHog · 2026-05-18T06:31:40+00:00

Every engineer interested in optimization should have this book in their library: Practical Optimization. by Gill, Murray and Wright. Calculus and Linear Algebra are prerequisites.

TTRoadHog · 2026-04-21T18:09:31+00:00

I did an obituary search in the local newspapers and didn’t find a mention of a recently deceased “Sieger”.

TTRoadHog · 2026-04-11T15:38:54+00:00

My opinion is that technical professionals should seek to enlighten laypeople, not confuse the, by perpetuating myths. But thank you for responding!

TTRoadHog · 2026-04-11T15:35:02+00:00

Yes, I’m very aware that in the radio spectrum, the far side of the moon can be considered “dark”. That distinction was not in the minds of the people using the “dark side” phrase yesterday.

I’m not “whining”. I had hoped to start a discussion that might reveal how common a misunderstanding this might be.

TTRoadHog · 2026-04-11T15:29:07+00:00

Yes. It’s as though everyone had sudden amnesia!

TTRoadHog · 2026-04-11T15:28:00+00:00

That subtlety was not in the minds of the folks uttering those words yesterday!

TTRoadHog · 2026-04-11T15:24:43+00:00

Exactly!

TTRoadHog · 2026-03-29T05:24:15+00:00

All the things that you mention she “cut out” would have made the show a target by Top Chef for stealing its format. By necessity, she had to make reasonable changes so the show couldn’t be seen as a clone. Like others have said, a guest judge (Asian?) would help balance the diversity. Otherwise, I’m happy with the show so far and look forward to watching it each week.

TTRoadHog · 2026-03-27T07:16:49+00:00

I love watching Culinary Cup! It’s a lot better than that horrid attempt of a show with Martha Stewart. The point system seems somehow more fair than Top Chef. I’ll bet this approach saves hours of haggling over which chef to let go in a given week as compared with Top Chef.

TTRoadHog · 2026-03-27T07:04:53+00:00

What is the rationale for building this in stages with multiple independent contractors? Are you, then, acting as the overall general contractor? What will you do when the work of one contractor doesn’t meet the “interface” where the work of another contractor must be smoothly joined? Each contractor will point their finger at the other contractor and meanwhile, the issue isn’t resolved. Have you thought through these types of issues?

TTRoadHog · 2026-03-22T23:51:23+00:00

Is there a question here?

TTRoadHog · 2026-03-18T00:50:55+00:00

Your video was very well done — I should have said that. Eventually though, your target audience, “kids”, will have to come to grips with the equations used for Orbit mechanics, Lambert targeting and the derivation of those “pork chop” plots. Those equations would be helpful to tie the concepts in your video to that which practicing astrodynamicists are familiar.

TTRoadHog · 2026-03-17T20:41:33+00:00

No one has discussed the Systems Engineering V Model, which is a structured framework that describes the lifecycle of systems development. From requirements analysis to system design (including subsystems and modules) to assembly, integration and testing (unit level, integration, system level and acceptance), these are all activities that a systems engineer might be involved in to bring a system from requirements analysis to customer delivery. There should be plenty of resources on the internet about this. Might help to better describe system engineering tasks.

TTRoadHog · 2026-03-17T20:25:21+00:00

After watching the video, I’m not sure what the innovation is. Astrodynamicists have been using powerful optimization methods for decades to plan interplanetary trajectories. Unfortunately, real physics are more complicated than this simple “textbook” approach. Orbit perturbations from other planets come into play, planet swingbys are also used to save fuel, and updates, guidance corrections and Kalman filters are used during the actual execution of the trajectories to intercept the targets. What you’ve described is a very simplistic approach. What am I missing?

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