Advent of Code 2024

Post by LandR » Mon, Dec 02, 2024, 2:14 PM UTC

nja wrote: post #327

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.

> I can really enjoy the winter break from work What line of work are you in that you can take a winter break, and furthermore, that you can actually not work during that break? I'm envious... I've always wanted to do AoC but on top of work it is too much.

Post by ghjfrdghibt » Mon, Dec 02, 2024, 2:26 PM UTC

miningape wrote: post #496

ghjfrdghibt wrote: post #486

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I don't see much to disgree with in what you're saying. Were clearly talking about different things. What happens when you dig in and exhaust all your best efforts and still don't find a solution? Are you a lost cause because you couldn't figure it out for yourself? Or are you allowed to be shown the way it's done so you can learn from that? Many times in my life have I not been able to figure something out for mysel…

Honestly use the gym analogy again: You've spent the last hour trying to curl the 50kg dumbbell and you just can't do it. You walk up to the yolked out guy and ask him to show you how it's done, he picks up the weight and curls it with ease. At this point its not really fair to say you curled those 50kgs, and you didn't get much out of the experience. Maybe you noticed something about his technique that helped, or he…

Post by ghjfrdghibt » Mon, Dec 02, 2024, 2:32 PM UTC

miningape wrote: post #491

ghjfrdghibt wrote: post #477

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Agree to disagree. Don't see any difference with finding the answers on SO, or in textbooks, and having an AI provide the same. And at the start, novice body builders will of course watch other body builders to learn how it's done. Unless you're exceptional you're not teaching yourself anything unless it's by learning from others. Few are the pioneers in any field.

I think the difference between the textbooks and AI is that the AI can answer exactly your question without providing the necessary context/reasoning behind how it arrived there. When you are drawing connections between SO posts, textbooks, whatever you do a fair amount of reasoning yourself. Now that I think about it it isn't AI specific (more knowledge specific) - I'd say the same if you wait a few hours and then l…

Post by tsukikage » Mon, Dec 02, 2024, 2:47 PM UTC

ghjfrdghibt wrote: post #385

reocha wrote: post #378

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What is the point in doing a programming challenge if you aren't learning anything

Depends if you're really stuck on a problem. I'd rather learn by getting a look at how it's done, even if the code is incorrect, than be completely suck with no idea why or what to do.

Post by ricardobeat » Mon, Dec 02, 2024, 2:57 PM UTC

xdavidliu wrote: post #497

bargainbin wrote: post #348

Ah here it is again, 25 days of writing increasingly complex input parsers.

the input parsers don't get increasingly complex over the days. The problems themselves do. Even on the most difficult days around 22 or 23, the inputs are all just lines of space separate ints or some grid of points or something, just like the trivial problems on days 1-3