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Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

#11

Post by petercooper »

anonyfox wrote: post #3

This year might be the gpt4 speedrun mode. I still prefer to do it manually since casually tackling it is a great way to learn a new language or refresh past knowledge!

I decided to give it a go both ways and I found GPT a huge impediment with day one. It did a terrible job and I found it far easier to do myself. I think it's possible to finesse but it'll take more effort than simply "solve this." It didn't help that part two of day one is a fantastic example of a spec causing ambiguity through a lack of detail – I actually wonder if this was deliberate to throw LLM-based approaches off. (Note: There is zero threat of me ever being on the leaderboard as I will never be awake at 5am in December.)

Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

#12

Post by stiray »

I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried.

Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account.

I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive.

If not... I can live without it.

A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha256_hex); $digest=hmac_sha256_hex("levelX:true,...", $key);

(And no, I wont workaround them. This is why we got into such situation - as we were still using intrusive services instead boycotting them, it is matter of principle not of technical workaround)

Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

#13

Post by sokoloff »

stiray wrote: post #12

I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…

It’s been like this for its duration. I would wager heavily against this changing for 2024.

Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

#15

Post by kristaps »

petercooper wrote: post #11
anonyfox wrote: post #3

This year might be the gpt4 speedrun mode. I still prefer to do it manually since casually tackling it is a great way to learn a new language or refresh past knowledge!

I decided to give it a go both ways and I found GPT a huge impediment with day one. It did a terrible job and I found it far easier to do myself. I think it's possible to finesse but it'll take more effort than simply "solve this." It didn't help that part two of day one is a fantastic example of a spec causing ambiguity through a lack of detail – I actually wonder if this was deliberate to throw LLM-based approaches…

Yeah, that touch of ambiguity looked very deliberate, to give LLMs a hard time.

Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

#18

Post by redhale »

stiray wrote: post #12

I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…

Not saying I agree with the login requirement, but ... why not just create a throwaway account just for this purpose? This seems like a silly reason to miss out on something you might enjoy.

Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

#19

Post by skywhopper »

stiray wrote: post #12

I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…

I would hardly call it intrusive. The premise of the game involves tracking stats over days and years, so they need a login system. Using external trusted identity providers is a lot safer for their users than if they tried to implement their own login system.

Anyway, don’t hold your breath.

Re: Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

#20

Post by fodkodrasz »

stiray wrote: post #12

I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…

What is your problem with that? They don't request any unreasonable personal information/permissions, if I recall correctly they only use minimal info only: the unique user identifier (email address), and name.

They don't need to work with transactional emails, password resets, etc. Lots of failure modes and corner cases to support, for a minority. Lot of work and inconveniences saved for a free project that surely takes some effort to organize every year.

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