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I find you reply funny but I think you got downvoted because these analogies usually go the other way round: CS thing is described in layman's terms to make it understandable.

Going the other way round seems a bit strange, IMHO.

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When cooking I often find myself pondering that food prep has a very similar space-time tradeoff [1] to CS algorithms. Protip: Sprawling over to non-kitchen areas for mixing bowls and whatnot can provide a significant speedup vs moving things around in a limited kitchen workspace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%E2%80%93time_tradeoff

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