Advent of Code

Technology
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Ooops, I forgot all about it. Maybe I’ll go back and do every advent ever at some point.

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I did the first few then became unblocked on a project at work. I will
get caught up soon. The ones I did so far have been fun.

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The event this year has had some really good problems so far, done up through day 12. I also finished all of 2015 in the last couple weeks, and I feel like the difficulty is higher on average this year than that one. Which is good, the problems get more complex and more interesting, which means more fun.

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Man, Day 15 was a pain in the ass to get right. Seems to be the breaking point for a lot of people according to Reddit. I don’t think there was a problem with the problem itself, it was well explained and consistent, but there weren’t any good heuristics to figure out exactly where you’re going wrong.

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I’ve been loathing Day 15 since I read it. It’s too much like work. I’m almost done with the basic logic, but unless it works correctly immediately it’s going to be a nightmare to debug.

Update: It worked!

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https://www.michaelfogleman.com/aoc18/

I haven’t looked at these answers, but they are here if anyone needs to.

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I only just started working through these, but my repo is here. Python BTW bc LIST COMPREHENSION

opera_2018-12-20_23-45-52
opera_2018-12-20_23-45-521614×287 17.4 KB

opera_2018-12-20_23-45-42

:laughing:

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Cool! My repo is here and I’m writing it in Rust. Don’t forget to join the leaderboard 111686-e01a629f

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List comprehensions :heart:

Dictionary comprehension :revolving_hearts:

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defaultdict :brain::boom:

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Ok, back to Advent after holiday break. Skipping day 21 for now because interpreting and hand-optimizing fake assembly is boring. Day 22 part 1 wasn’t a problem, but I’ve got a bug with part 2. Nine stars to go!

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I got to day 20 and kind of burned out. I guess trying to do multiple events in the same month will do that to you, I ended up doing over 50 days worth of problems in 20 days. Since coming back from visiting family I have also had the upcoming move on the mind, so I will get back to finishing this at some point, just might be a few weeks/months.

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Advent of Code 2019 starts tomorrow. The leaderboard code is still 111686-e01a629f.

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Since tomorrow is Sunday, I promise to at least do day 1, lol.

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I thought I had more time. But hey, it’ll be nice to do some Python again for a bit.

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I’ve been meaning to learn kotlin so I guess I’ll use that this year.

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No shit talk. I’m gonna do it. Just waiting for my dev machine to upgrade.

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Completed both stars on day 2