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Any guesses at the difficulty? My first impression was that this is not going to be solved any time soon. I just don't think current techniques are good enough to write flawless lean code given a difficult objective.
I think grand challenges in AI are are sometimes useful, but when they are at this level I am a bit pessimistic. I don't think this is necessarily AI-complete, but it's perhaps close.
A few examples would help - the academic papers I see often call out this problem, and suggest possible Zs themselves. Generally, X and Y are more easily or precisely measured than the likely Zs, so make for better publications.
I definitely see the problem in popular articles and policy justification.
Please recommend me cheap (in brain-time and text length) ways to represent different levels of confidence in English texts and speech. More concretely, I want English words and ways to use them in sentences without modifying the sentence's structure. Examples:
Non-examples:
Not sure this is what you ask for but it seems relevant: What probability do people attach to likelihood adjectives?: https://hbr.org/2018/07/if-you-say-something-is-likely-how-likely-do-people-think-it-is
Being explicit about levels of confidence inherently needs brain-time because you have to think about what your level of confidence is.
I am looking for a gears-level introductory course (or a textbook, or anything) in cooking. I want to cook tasty healthy food in an efficient way. I am already often able to cook tasty food, but other times I fail, and often I don't understand what went wrong and how cooking even works.
I've heard good reviews of "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" as the definitive "gears level cooking" book, but have never read it myself.
Tim Ferriss book The 4-hour Chef does a good job at explaining the how and why and is efficiency oriented.
Recently, I however moved to the "throw things in the instant pot and let it do the cooking method of solving cooking and find it to be often more efficient then the normal way of cooking.
When I had a quick go-ogle search I started with:
"melatonin stability temperature"
then
"N-Acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine"
A quick flick through a few abstracts I can't see anything involving temperatures higher than 37 C i.e. body temperature.
Melatonin is a protein, many proteins denature at temperatures above 41 C.
My (jumped to) conclusion:
No specific data found.
Melatonin may not be stable at high temperatures, so avoid putting it in hot tea.