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Advent of Code 2024

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Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Post by matejn »

I completed last year's in Scryer Prolog and it was a joy. Some problems were almost impossible due to the lack of mutation (Karger's algorithm comes to mind), but file parsing was a breeze and I find Prolog programs generally beautiful. My favourite syntactical feature is the full stop at the end of clauses.

Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Post by rak1507 »

atribecalledqst wrote: post #83

Last year I got stuck on Day 12 for a full week, and thinking about how to solve it consumed my every waking moment. I think this year, I'm going to be kind to myself and not participate so I can really enjoy the winter break from work.

What's so hard about Day 12? It's just

    +/'{x:".",x;H:(-1+;1+i-)@'+|\m*i:!#m:x=\:"#."
     R:(x=x)({[h;d;x;y;z](z#0),+\(((-z)_~"#"=x)&z_d>z)*(*y),(-z+1)_y-0^y h}. H)[x]/y
     (*|R)-R@*|0,&1_*+m}.''1({("?"/:5#,x;,/5#,y)}.')\@[;1;.:]'" "\:'0:`:i/12.txt

Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Post by bufferoverflow »

cjauvin wrote: post #248

Because we can assume that these problems necessarily cannot be in the training set of any current LLM (and are hard enough, i.e. they should be more than mere variations on existing problems), I'm wondering if they can be a good benchmark to get a better sense of how good they really are at problem solving?

Modern LLMs are very good at solving programming puzzles like that. As soon as it recognizes which algorithm needs to apply, it's just massaging the data to the right format.

Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Post by sumeno »

danielbln wrote: post #59
wiseowise wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the people I know already participate on private boards. AI enshitification will only speed up the process of moving there.

Are we using enshittification for everything we don't like these days? We invented calculators, those really enshittified manual arithmetic puzzles. Private boards for this stuff makes sense anyway, it's the Internet afterall.

Just the shitty things like using LLMs to spoil a fun competition

Re: Advent of Code 2024

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Post by yoyohello13 »

wodenokoto wrote: post #232

People here are doing it in Common Lisp and C standard library, meanwhile I’m just sitting here trying to get a curl call to download the data file.

Copy your session token into .token then:

curl "https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/$DAY/input" --header "Cookie: $(cat .token)" > input.txt

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