🥬 A Food Waste Primer

During a couple of summers in college, my housemates and I cooked at home, and I realized how much of our food landed in the trash. As a kid, I almost never saw this happening at home; wasted food meant wasted money and wasted labor, from all the folks who harvested, transported, and prepared the ingredients.

🎯 Writing a Semantle Solver

Last year, I stumbled upon this 3Blue1Brown video (and its follow-up) about the game Wordle. The narrator explains how to find the optimal first guess using information theory. At the time, I had discovered another word guessing game called Semantle; unlike Wordle, which gives hints based on what letters the guesses share with the target word, Semantle gives hints based on how similar in meaning the guesses are to the target word.

🌀 A Whirlwind Tour of Planetary Boundaries

My last class in college examined the relationship between food and the environment, with Prof. Christopher Gardner.1 On the first day, we were introduced to planetary boundaries — a set of 8-9 dimensions of the Earth that includes climate change — in Springmann et al.

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