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No it's terrible, and the fact that you don't notice is exactly the problem. See also: monads. If you understand the basic process of what's going on (preparing food) and what it's meant to do (produce a delicious treat), formalizing your understanding in this way feels like concise and clear insight. If you don't yet know anything, it will be meaningless word salad where each 'answer' produces a multitude more questions.

Note e.g. that I never once cited an actual cake, I merely provided an example of a category of cakes. This too is a problem with mathematics, so in love with their abstractions, they no longer notice the lack of the concrete.




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