Stigler Diet
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Stigler Diet
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Re: Stigler Diet
#2FWIW, when adjusted for inflation, $39.93 (the total annual cost of Stigler's 1939 diet) is approximately equivalent to $712 in 2018 US dollars(1). Still a paltry sum, though, for a year's worth of food for most people in the US, I think.
Re: Stigler Diet
#3FWIW, when adjusted for inflation, $39.93 (the total annual cost of Stigler's 1939 diet) is approximately equivalent to $712 in 2018 US dollars(1). Still a paltry sum, though, for a year's worth of food for most people in the US, I think. 1. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Or delivered on a pallet for about $1000/person-year: https://www.costco.com/THRIVE-1-Year-Food-Storage-31%2C500-S...
Re: Stigler Diet
#4Bookmarking this for later use. I've always wanted to find a recipe somewhere between Soylent and Lembas Bread that can be used for long hiking or canoe trips.
Unfortunately the beans and cabbage hardly sound appetizing for a bread. The obvious ideas are wheat, nuts, and dried fruits.
Any good resources for this?
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#5Bookmarking this for later use. I've always wanted to find a recipe somewhere between Soylent and Lembas Bread that can be used for long hiking or canoe trips. Unfortunately the beans and cabbage hardly sound appetizing for a bread. The obvious ideas are wheat, nuts, and dried fruits. Any good resources for this?
Not a bread, but...
Re: Stigler Diet
#6FWIW, when adjusted for inflation, $39.93 (the total annual cost of Stigler's 1939 diet) is approximately equivalent to $712 in 2018 US dollars(1). Still a paltry sum, though, for a year's worth of food for most people in the US, I think. 1. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
(the irony of avoiding my own noprocrast settings)... For a university course, I managed roughly 600$ a year (local prices) with a (few-constraints-)diet of peanut butter and rice sandwiches. Even lower price for directly consuming spoonfuls of flour. Thus the added commentary:
- you manage what you measure (linear programming is really powerful, but also simplistic for this model)
- the human body is great at survival (general requirements are easily achievable, but surely something is wrong with the spoonfuls-of-flour approach)
Re: Stigler Diet
#7If you were to blend the benefits of services like Soylent (nutritionally balanced meals) and BlueApron (delicious delivered recipes), you arrive at a service where you pick from a list of healthy ingredients and the service uses linear programming to build "solutions" aka recipes for meals that balance the ingredients such that they provide proper nutrition and then provide you with the list of ingredients to purchase (or ship them directly to you).
Also related: https://discourse.soylent.com/t/genetic-algorithms-automatic...
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#8Extremely cool until even the smell of navy beans makes you wretch.
Also, given the generally poor state of even contemporary nutritional science this strikes me as something akin to a particularly beautiful set of solutions for a universe in which the luminiferous aether is real.
BUT it is still a really neat optimization problem, and that is likely the spirit under which it was submitted.
Re: Stigler Diet
#9Bookmarking this for later use. I've always wanted to find a recipe somewhere between Soylent and Lembas Bread that can be used for long hiking or canoe trips. Unfortunately the beans and cabbage hardly sound appetizing for a bread. The obvious ideas are wheat, nuts, and dried fruits. Any good resources for this?
Refer to my other comment. If you must, any constraint optimization solver will do. Here's two:
[1] Example http://apmonitor.com/online/view_pass.php
[2] HN Thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15530630