First Published: 17 January 2025 (because I forgot to hit post)
Yesterday I went through some of the different ways that I could get sufficient protein.1 Since I’m2 not going to just consume all of my protein from a single source, I do technically have an NP problem, which is a variant of the knapsack problem. However, I’m looking for solutions that do not fit neatly into the normal computational framework, if only because more or less everything I could consume is functionally continuous, and the knapsack problem is meant for discrete entries.
Chicken, fish, and cheese are all similar in that I need to be eating about a pound a day of them in order to get my nutritional needs met. That’s a fair amount of volume, if nothing else. I can’t really imagine sitting down and eating a pound of any of them in a single sitting3
However, one piece of advice a friend gave me was to speak to a dietician at my school, which is apparently free. Rather than continue to worry about all of this, I’m going to try to do that instead.
Daily:
Practiced guitar? Not yet today
Twice daily stretching? The five minutes at night seems so much harder than the one in the morning. Making an actual list of what I do for how long is almost certainly my best option going forward.
Poetry? I’ve generally been doing two or so stanzas, and usually working on a different ideal each time. Yesterday I was trying for an ABBA rhyme scheme.
Blog? Look at this right here!
Net cleaner home?