This article featured in the October 2021 issue of the 2021 NAFEMS World Congress edition of BENCHMARK

It was only when I started using pre-cut vegetables that my stews started looking and tasting better. Instead of spending time and energy on cleaning vegetables and cutting them into the same size and shape, I could concentrate on the things that really made a difference to the final result: improving the recipe, presentation, and attending to the dish as it cooked. It might seem like quite a leap, but the lessons learned during my experiences in the kitchen proved useful when considering how to enhance CAE with Machine Learning (ML).