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Making Great Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've become known among friends in our neighborhood as a great baker, though restricted to cookies and pies so far. The last couple times I made chocolate chip cookies I was been told by multiple enthusiastic people that I should open a bakery. This bragging isn't to puff me up in your eyes, readers. I'm building myself up a bit to let you down, to let you know that there's no magic to it and that I just use good tools, a good process, and follow the recipe, with one or two tiny modifications. Yes, you too can make amazing chocolate chip cookies! Now, how? If you bake, you probably already have some or all of the tools. Here's what you need: Item 1: Get the Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookies recipe. It's available here . Yes, we're using the recipe on the bag. Item 2: Acquire four medium-sized cookie sheets or shallow baking pans. You should ideally be able to fit two of them in the oven side-by-side. This is just to keep the assembly line moving faste
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Late 2023 Ignition on Exoplanet Project

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Finally got back to my exoplanet generator project this past week after a ~six month hiatus. I'm still on the galaxy generation portion, and am ready to abuse some tables and figures from the literature. But in a responsible way. Quick digression: There are broadly two ways to approach generation and simulation of physical systems such as galaxies, stars, and planets. The first, more rigorous and scientific approach, is to define the starting parameters, equations of state, and environmental influences and run a time-evolving simulation of the system itself. This is what real scientists do and get published in real journals. This is the domain of dark matter and galactic hierarchical merging simulations, of detailed simulations of planetary interiors, and of climate models. A mostly bottom-up approach that allows the simulation to take on a life of it's own, with some tweaking of parameter and modeling choices. The second way varies from "rigorous enough" to all out h
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