Advent of Code 2024

Post by sjmulder » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 2:28 PM UTC

nindalf wrote: post #550

SushiHippie wrote: post #530

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Looks pretty neat I'll take some inspiration from this. Though you shouldn't upload the text and inputs of the puzzles (maybe .gitignore them) as per [0]: > Can I copy/redistribute part of Advent of Code? Please don't. Advent of Code is free to use, not free to copy. If you're posting a code repository somewhere, please don't include parts of Advent of Code like the puzzle text or your inputs. If you're making a webs…

I'm usually a rule follower, but this is a rule that I choose not to follow. I have a couple of reasons: - I've spent effort on this, and I want the repository to work in future. I want to be able to clone it and run all the code without having to fetch the input once more, even if the site is unavailable. (I actually do this while benchmarking new hardware). - I don't think it actually hurts the creator in any way,…

Post by bmitc » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 4:42 PM UTC

Jtsummers wrote: post #211

bmitc wrote: post #208

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One reason I didn't enjoy it was that I felt the days don't build on each other well. So you get little code reuse. It was continually changing requirements, so it was especially like work.

In 2019 he built up about 12 challenges using a VM, for Intcode, you had to construct. It was poorly received because without a working version (developed over the first few Intcode challenges), you couldn't solve the rest of them. He hasn't done anything like that since, though I thought it was probably the more interesting series of challenges. The problem with continuity across days is that the later days can be b…

Post by jebarker » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

Ellipsis753 wrote: post #479

runeks wrote: post #478

If LLMs are really as good at writing code as some people say, they should write a script that fetches each challenge, as soon as it's released, and feeds it to an LLM, to produce a solution. Then run this code and submit the answer it outputs.

This is how most of the top of leaderboard works.

Post by nikolay » Wed, Dec 04, 2024, 3:53 AM UTC

tialaramex wrote: post #502

nikolay wrote: post #420

This is my fourth year. I'm using Go while being surprised how inadequate it is for this kind of problem. Standard libraries lack basic data structures and often Go is too slow for a compiled language!

What does "Go is too slow" mean in this context? Were you expecting similar performance to Rust or C++?

Post by ChrisRR » Wed, Dec 04, 2024, 9:42 AM UTC

the_duke wrote: post #185

This years challenge for me: write it in C without the standard library or an allocator. Has to be runnable on an STM32 with 32kb of SRAM. I tried doing it in Assembly two years ago, ended up spending hours and hours writing an Assembly standard library, then gave up and switched to Rust...