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It's a tough day 1, I hope it doesn't scare off too many people. Normally day 1 is just some variation of "add numbers in a list", but this year has a mean pt 2 and a few traps for people to fall into. I wonder how long the global leaderboard will stay up before it gets hidden due to people solving with ChatGPT?
This year they politely ask people not to use LLM solutions until the days leaderboard is full.
Another year and another Advent of Code that I don't have enough time in my life to do. One year I'll actually finish!
It's really the worst time of the year for something like this. I hardly remember a time when I wasn't completely swamped with tasks before Christmas. A summer puzzle would be much more doable...
Part two was exceptionally hard. Many people on reddit reporting they were hit by one edge case that's not covered in the examples. But my implementation passed these edge cases too. I was hit by another edge case. So there are at least two edge-cases (which are in the actual data) that aren't covered in the examples or the description.
My part 2 was 4-line addition to part 1 (see code below, if inappropriate let me know and I'll remove it), and it worked first try. On the other hand, I made a mistake in part one and got it right only on a second attempt...
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for (j = 1; j I think I’d like to try this year’s in a language I haven’t touched before. What languages should I consider if I want something paradigmatically different from Go, Python, etc?
I will be doing this advent challenge this year instead: https://adventofchess.com/ Looking forward to read your write-ups!
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It's really the worst time of the year for something like this. I hardly remember a time when I wasn't completely swamped with tasks before Christmas. A summer puzzle would be much more doable...
The first half of the month is swamped because everybody takes the second half off of work.
I completed it in 2020 and felt extremely accomplished. I doubt I'll get through all of them this year before losing interest, got too many other projects going, but I always have fun with them.
I think I’d like to try this year’s in a language I haven’t touched before. What languages should I consider if I want something paradigmatically different from Go, Python, etc?
I'm not a very sophisticated Elixir programmer, but I think my solutions are decent enough (and readable, for the most part!). I have a repo which has solutions for quite a few of the puzzles, along with some nifty little mix tasks to help set up a skeleton for each day's puzzle and automatically fetch the input file.
If you're interested: https://github.com/epiccoleman/advent_of_code_ex
I think I’d like to try this year’s in a language I haven’t touched before. What languages should I consider if I want something paradigmatically different from Go, Python, etc?