The Great Half Bake-Off

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The Great Half Bake Off is your chance to showcase your perhaps-strange, somewhat unrealistic, or incompletely imagined idea for a project: throw something delicious at the wall, and see what sticks. Creativity is encouraged. Tocques are not required.[1]

Why is the Great Half Bake Off?[edit]

  • We all have ideas lurking in an incomplete state -- they might be delightful, or they might not survive the harsh light of day, but we won't know until we drag them out of our someday-I-wish recipe boxes and dump them out onto a plate.
  • There was an open slot in the 2x2 matrix formed by Research (formed through unformed) and Peer Review (formal through informal), and this fills that slot.
  • Prosociality is positively correlated with survival.

Ok, I have at least one bad incomplete, half-baked idea. How do I do this?[edit]

  • Gather your ingredients: one slide
  • Present your creation: utter words that can fill at most two minutes
  • Listen to the judges: Rapid-fire hot takes only! Max 5 minutes of feedback will be delivered: fresh or it's free.

2023 Edition for the Sept 2023 Meetup[edit]

  • You can use this as an opportunity to also introduce yourself briefly, but don't put the half-bake too much on the backseat!
  • You still get just 2 minutes to present your half-bake; the feedback will be 2-3 minutes for time.

Past winners[edit]

  • 2022 - sohyeon, for an extremely low-effort slide on `bad governance'
  • 2021 - did we keep track before? unclear

Notes[edit]

  1. It is also a recurring CDSC event that has been held at several CDSC meetups. Perhaps you are reading this because we're having another one? Whose half-baked idea was that...