yikes
#advent-of-code
flat sequoia
livid gull
directions = [(1, 0), (0, -11), (-1, 0), (0, -1)] firstly
woven solar
AAAAAA fuck my input is a DIFFERENT ||unfolding of the cube|| than the TEST
livid gull
directions = [(1, 0), (0, -1), (-1, 0), (0, 1)] secondly
woven solar
I got the part2 test to work before noticing it
covert arrow
AAAAAA fuck my input is a DIFFERENT ||unfolding of the cube|| than the TEST
I think everyone's is
woven solar
I got the part2 test to work before noticing it
so basically my entire work is useless, I think
woven solar
actually, I don't get my actual input's folding at all?..
hexed axle
modern harness
I painstakingly coded my ||cube|| by hand, but the ||manual side translations only work for my specific input ||, so I can't even test it out on the example
earnest forge
I painstakingly coded my ||cube|| by hand, but the ||manual side translations on...
Yeah same lol
I ended up just hardcoding for the example too lol
compact wasp
i should've just tried the dumb hardcode approach
instead i used the ||complex number|| hardcode approach
which ended up being too convoluted
modern harness
I ended up just hardcoding for the example too lol
I'm working through that right now... it is VERY useful. Already caught two mistakes... need to find at least one other
earnest forge
That's why I did it lol
modern harness
Turns out I had like 10 more mistakes to fix. I was a bit shocked at the number of mistakes in such a small amount of code. Finally got the example working... and the input fails still
compact wasp
L
magic oxide
me everyday: I should really bookmark the re documentation since I use it so often
also me everyday: wait it's already bookmarked
lost owl
Can anyone here give me tips to read problem statements fast and understand well?
polar sand
How long after AoC ends will the spoiler threads still be visible?
minor cave
They'll be around for the entire length of January
magic oxide
implement a cube
import cube
past comet
implement a cube
is the meaning of that question obvious for someone past day 18?
pine tiger
this is day 22
modern harness
Can anyone here give me tips to read problem statements fast and understand well...
I go fast, but that just comes with missing things sometimes that I'll revisit if and when I start getting wrong submissions. Right off the bat, I always completely skip the first 2 or 3 paragraphs which is usually just flavor. Then I try to quickly read everything between there and the first example skipping parts of sentences as I go. Then I really slow down as I follow the initial step of the example which really shows me if I skipped too much. If I'm confused, I go back and hunt for the parts I missed during my skimming that caused my confusion. I try to avoid reading as much of the rest of the example as I feel I can get away with, but sometimes need to see at least a few other cases, depending on the problem.
placid lake
damn z3 matrix support is non existant
compact wasp
Can anyone here give me tips to read problem statements fast and understand well...
having a fast reading speed in general helps a lot
learn to skim
that's really all there is to it
as avon said, first few paragraphs are usually just flavor
i think it helps to read through the whole example
but he's ranked higher than me so take that with a grain of salt
placid lake
okay i give up ||constraint solving|| with ||cvxpy|| for day 19
mossy basin
okay i give up ||constraint solving|| with ||cvxpy|| for day 19
i had a constraint solution, but i used ||cpmpy|| -- maybe you could convert it though
iron shadow
take a look in #1047673173447020564
there's a post for each day, where many solutions are posted
pine tiger
in day 22, i only see people malding lol
i guess i'll go dumpster diving in the reddit megathread
iron shadow
I scrolled up ~3 pages and saw 2 links to solutions
there's likely even more if you keep scrolling
pine tiger
well i found one regardless
torn thorn
in day 22, i only see people malding lol
ong ๐
magic oxide
I haven't looked at day 22 spoilers yet
I wanna actually try today myself
seems fun
magic oxide
I'm somehow 39th despite being like a full day late
modern terrace
I'm somehow 39th despite being like a full day late
is it a combination of all days or just the most recent day?
modern terrace
ok yeah i'm pretty sure only a few of us are doing anything past day 20 now
magic oxide
today is 23rd
and last year's 23rd was suffering incarnate
so
hopefully I get through today
I really wanna actually finish aoc on Christmas this year
covert arrow
ok yeah i'm pretty sure only a few of us are doing anything past day 20 now
&aoc stats
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Day โญ โญโญ | %โญ %โญโญ
================================
1) 495 488 | 48.20% 47.52%
2) 457 445 | 44.50% 43.33%
3) 424 416 | 41.29% 40.51%
4) 399 396 | 38.85% 38.56%
5) 363 357 | 35.35% 34.76%
6) 360 359 | 35.05% 34.96%
7) 294 287 | 28.63% 27.95%
8) 289 273 | 28.14% 26.58%
9) 250 230 | 24.34% 22.40%
10) 254 241 | 24.73% 23.47%
11) 226 218 | 22.01% 21.23%
12) 188 186 | 18.31% 18.11%
13) 180 179 | 17.53% 17.43%
14) 167 165 | 16.26% 16.07%
15) 150 129 | 14.61% 12.56%
16) 103 86 | 10.03% 8.37%
17) 102 85 | 9.93% 8.28%
18) 117 99 | 11.39% 9.64%
19) 67 63 | 6.52% 6.13%
20) 81 80 | 7.89% 7.79%
21) 93 84 | 9.06% 8.18%
22) 68 50 | 6.62% 4.87%
23) 0 0 | 0.00% 0.00%
24) 0 0 | 0.00% 0.00%
25) 0 0 | 0.00% 0.00%
covert arrow
50 people have done day 22 part 2 so far
So if you've done all the puzzles so far you're pretty much guaranteed to be top 50
torn thorn
&aoc c
shut trellisBOT
Day 23 starts <t:1671771600:R>.
magic oxide
a
earnest forge
GLHF
magic oxide
glhf
shut trellisBOT
<@&518565788744024082> Good morning! Day 23 is ready to be attempted. View it online now at https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/23. Good luck!
torn thorn
ewwww
magic oxide
another day of not being able to do it since laptop has no battery
torn thorn
another grid problem
magic oxide
there isn't enough time to let the elves figure out where to plant the seedlings, which is why you're going to spend an hour coding up a way to help them figure it out
placid lake
it's time to ||convolve||
but like tomorrow because i'm too tired for this
i did the days 18, 19, 20, 21 today
magic oxide
||what even is convolution||
torn thorn
๐คทโโ๏ธ
modern terrace
it's time to ||convolve||
well i don't know how to do that so ig i'm just gonna do the naive solution
does an elf just stop once it reaches the edge of the input
modern terrace
it says more empty ground continues past the edges
eh
modern terrace
elf doesn't have anything surrounding it
o
torn thorn
why do these elves move south?
earnest forge
OBOE cost me 13 places ๐
torn thorn
||more specifically why does this one move south?||
earnest forge
why do these elves move south?
Because ||the priorities change each round||
magic oxide
huh
earnest forge
Lb is full
compact wasp
108/99
livid gull
ffs i was doing p2 as p1
compact wasp
i was slow today
minor cave
livid gull
now i have to redo
earnest forge
Lol
magic oxide
that's good
torn thorn
i am throwing
earnest forge
Hey I've got 321 global points neat
compact wasp
nice
earnest forge
Ayo that's a little sus
compact wasp
๐
compact wasp
Didn't realise LB filled up that quickly (day 6)
wtf
so many people with sus times
that the 119 became a 121
within 8 seconds
earnest forge
11th place p1, 9th place p2, worth 119 and 121 points respectively
That's what those numbers are FYI
earnest forge
Time/rank/points/delta/time/rank/points/total
compact wasp
i'm dumb
earnest forge
Doubles for day 2
modern terrace
why is mine not woring
earnest forge
Smh at least try to make it look like you're solving legit
modern terrace
Which part?
1
modern terrace
Which part?
earnest forge
(Sedsarq has a very low delta for every day I've checked so far...)
Oh actually seems like 7 and up are fine on that board
flat sequoia
i mean they're prob just cheating no?
earnest forge
(yes)
magic oxide
most definitely
flat sequoia
even if it's just a number bump i dont think you can read it, change it, run it, and submit it that fast
magic oxide
I don't think people can read it that fast
flat sequoia
not to mention get over the excitement of having completed the first part
and start doing the 2nd part...
that's like at least a few seconds
compact wasp
only on the harder days though
earnest forge
Even if my part 2 solutions ran immediately, and never had any bugs, my delta would probably still be at least 20 seconds or so
compact wasp
days like day 1 or day 23 don't excite me ๐
compact wasp
yeah
flat sequoia
and then click the link to go back
compact wasp
true
flat sequoia
i mean it's just not possible
earnest forge
you still have to read the text saying you got it
Browser automation ๐
earnest forge
(I mean I end up with 3 AoC tabs every day but who cares)
magic oxide
i have the one tab and sometimes if I forget to close my input tab
and then like re documentation
itertools sometimes
3 different githubs
earnest forge
no shot anyone's actually doing that
marsh currentBOT
aoc_helper/interface.py line 135
_open_page(URL.format(day=day, year=year))```
`aoc_helper/interface.py` line 244
```py
_open_page(resp.url) # open part 2 in the user's browser```i usually only have the one tab open and then if i get anxious about not being able to solve it i open the leaderboard lmao
oh my god
i still think autosubmit is overengineered
magic oxide
nah
magic oxide
probably takes a few seconds
flat sequoia
because there are many days where my answer is 1 less than the actual answer
but i can just look at it and add 1 after i copy paste
instead of having to change and run my code again
flat sequoia
because there are many days where my answer is 1 less than the actual answer
(today)
earnest forge
Also lets you get the input via the CLI
magic oxide
huh cool it has colors
earnest forge
flat sequoia
yeah the colors were what got me
compact wasp
huh cool it has colors
that's what you're excited about?
earnest forge
huh cool it has colors
If you install with [fancy] yeah
flat sequoia
yes
earnest forge
(or just install rich separately)
magic oxide
that's what you're excited about?
I just spent like an hour earlier trying to add colors to my python output to help visualize cube symmetry ok
compact wasp
lmao
flat sequoia
i literally folded out a piece of cube on paper
magic oxide
I didn't have the luxury of paper
compact wasp
i just did it in my head
flat sequoia
gotta love this
magic oxide
I just had to imagine it
compact wasp
I just had to imagine it
same
flat sequoia
i did the first half in my head
magic oxide
ok mine is cleaner than that
flat sequoia
LMAO
livid gull
flat sequoia
i mean i could have done it in my head
it's just that
i realized that
if i fuck up even a tiny bit
it's going to be a pain to debug
so i decided to play it safe
compact wasp
ngl i should've just used the dumb approach of typing out everything
instead of working out the multiplications to properly transform the coords
flat sequoia
i started writing out a smarter approach and then i realized that coord bashing would guaranteed work in a given time
magic oxide
I tried to unhardcode my thing earlier for golf
and then after an hour of doing it
I realized hardcoding it was half the length
so I just scrapped it
compact wasp
i thought the smarter approach would actually be faster to write and then i realized i'm not smart enough to pull that off
but at that point i was afflicted by the sunk cost fallacy
magic oxide
I drew up a few tables for the cube portals and I could see all the symmetry but they would've all been to annoying to actually implement
flat sequoia
lmao
earnest forge
honestly i change my mind that's kinda cool
Btw I'm gonna try to sell you one more thing; automatic testing (not perfect, but you can always override the test data)
compact wasp
sold
flat sequoia
oh so if it passes the sample case then it'll auto submit?
does it pull the sample input and answer automatically too?
wonder if there's a consistent pattern you can rely on for that
earnest forge
If it doesn't pass the test case (either pulled from the page or passed manually), it raises an assertion error and tells you both the right answer and the wrong answer you gave yeah
earnest forge
wonder if there's a consistent pattern you can rely on for that
There is not
flat sequoia
isn't it just the first code block after "For example"
earnest forge
It's essentially just a heuristic for pulling out the right code tag
flat sequoia
and then the answer is a bold code block
earnest forge
isn't it just the first code block after "For example"
Doesn't work for e.g. today
earnest forge
Wait hold on yeah wtf
flat sequoia
y'all
compact wasp
๐
magic oxide
lmao
flat sequoia
it prob pulls example
and the last one
or "For example," instead of "For example"
earnest forge
Yeah it's pulling any input preceded with for example, consider, or given as long as there's a :, and then choosing the last eligible codeblock
Which I think works for more puzzles
(generally the toy input is introduced first IIRC)
flat sequoia
aoc day 25: given an aoc problem, extract the sample input
magic oxide
aoc day 25: given an aoc problem, extract the sample input
insert a bunch of people using regex to parse html and summoning the programming devil
magic oxide
I've only ever made one program that interacts with websites and I used selenium
so that's all I really know
earnest forge
For Python: basically just use requests and bs4
(unless you're using asyncio, then use aiohttp)
magic oxide
yeah I automated education perfect with it
very useful if you don't wanna do your homework
earnest forge
I get why selenium could be useful but honestly I haven't found anything I wouldn't rather just use requests + bs4 or like autohotkey for lol
magic oxide
how do you do user input stuff with requests?
earnest forge
Also in my experience selenium is super resource-intensive for no reason
earnest forge
how do you do user input stuff with requests?
Specify the input value in a post request
For example, here's how aoc_helper submits the answer to an aoc problem:
https://github.com/Starwort/aoc_helper/blob/master/aoc_helper/interface.py#L206-L211
marsh currentBOT
aoc_helper/interface.py lines 206 to 211
resp = requests.post(
url=URL.format(day=day, year=year) + "/answer",
cookies=get_cookie(),
data={"level": part_, "answer": answer_},
headers=HEADERS,
)```
compact wasp
I get why selenium could be useful but honestly I haven't found anything I would...
i would prefer using selenium to applescript lol
earnest forge
(I've never used applescript)
devout tusk
ha anyone worked with pyinstaller before? Needed some help with it :/
lunar jackal
i love reading
"finally at the end of the round the first direction the elves considered is moved to the end of the list of directions"
I totally skipped that sentence
and I was wondering why my stuff wasn't working
modern terrace
this is the first day i actually finished something by myself since somewhere in the early day 10s'
cool stuff
compact wasp
wtf
modern terrace
isn't day 23 like ||conway's game of life||
magic oxide
yeah
modern terrace
anyways i'm gonna go work on my WIP programming language so i'll join the golf later
magic oxide
we don't even have a golf for day 22 yet lmao
compact wasp
lmao
compact wasp
maybe after i settle down for winter break
magic oxide
i feel like i've written this exact statement so many times this year
||```py
{x+y*1j: v for x, row in enumerate(file.read().splitlines()) for y, v in enumerate(row)}
add that to one of the aoc libraries
earnest forge
||```py
{x+y*1j: v for x, row in enumerate(file.read().splitlines()) for y, v in...
Grid.from_string but it's a 2d list not a complex dict
compact wasp
so it's different
earnest forge
Though tbh I've already been considering adding Grid -> SparseGrid conversions
magic oxide
actually i'm gonna do something different today
||```py
{x+y*1j for x, row in enumerate(file.read().splitlines()) for y, v in enumerate(row) if v == '#'}
mix it up a bit
earnest forge
(sparsegrid also works on integer pairs, but maybe I'll figure out doing complex)
compact wasp
complex is superior bc of easy arithmetic
magic oxide
agreed
tho it'd be useful to have a custom class like ComplexCoord or something that allows splatting and integer coordinates
covert arrow
Can't it just be Coordinate
magic oxide
good point
magic oxide
(sparsegrid also works on integer pairs, but maybe I'll figure out doing complex...
if you do end up doing this it'd be nice to have something that finds the minmax real and imag parts of the grid
i find myself doing like
||```py
reals, imags = {z.real for z in s}, {z.imag for z in s}
row_min, row_max, col_min, col_max = min(reals), max(reals), min(imags), max(imags)
a lotSparseGrid has bounds
magic oxide
oh cool
i'll check out aoc_helper when i eventually go back to get the stars from previous years
left yew
what's up with complex numbers and coords
magic oxide
there's no coord/point class in python by default
but there is the complex class
and complex numbers are isomorphic to R2, which just means that complex numbers can be treated as a point (x,y), which is what a coordinate is
and complex() comes equipped with addition, subtraction and rotation
so it's useful to just use complex numbers as coordinates
left yew
ah, So it saves time from doing operations on tuple
magic oxide
yes
restive imp
Thats new. My unittest for the example is wrong, but I get the right answer for the input
untold oar
flat sequoia
I don't really like using complex numbers
makes my code weird
also with tuples you can do things like xs, ys = zip(*elves)
and you don't need to worry about converting everything to int when you put it in a range
odd wigeon
Has anyone tried just playing the high-low game with aoc?
Instead of actually solving the puzzle, just guess.
past comet
Instead of actually solving the puzzle, just guess.
i'm tempted to do it for day 18, given my range I'd get there in less than 11 guesses
past comet
day 19 is giving me strong factorio vibes
pine tiger
Has anyone tried just playing the high-low game with aoc?
don't they stop giving you the feedback after a certain amount of tries?
torn thorn
probably...?
lethal jungle
zinc kindle
Just completed day20. I'd made an assumption that turned out to be incorrect ||turns out input can have duplicates||. After finding that out via google, was smooth sailing.
torn thorn
interesting how people assume duplicates just never exist
i just always approach with the thought that if there's a possibility duplicates then there probably will be unless stated in the problem otherwise
there's like at least 3 days where if you assumed no duplicates you would've been screwed hm
covert arrow
yeah a lot of people fell for that in ||day 7||
torn thorn
ok but like tbf
day 7
was like
why aren't you storing in a ||tree like format or like the real path||
covert arrow
idk, people are just lazy
torn thorn
&aoc c
shut trellisBOT
Day 24 starts <t:1671858000:R>.
earnest forge
GLHF everyone
magic oxide
glhf
torn thorn
2 more days
covert arrow
glhf
compact wasp
gonna choke
earnest forge
don't they stop giving you the feedback after a certain amount of tries?
Yes and only available after 1k lb btw
magic oxide
I'm still outside lmao
torn thorn
now where's dennis
magic oxide
not doing it yet
torn thorn
๐
compact wasp
Yes and only available after 1k lb btw
๐ฆ
shut trellisBOT
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covert arrow
wtf is this
torn thorn
bro
compact wasp
gn
torn thorn
nah what the fuck eric
hollow wharf
bruh
magic oxide
bruh
torn thorn
this is ||bfs with pruning||
||pruning?||
hollow wharf
just came here to get better at python and the question was this ๐
torn thorn
||what would you prune ?~?||
lunar jackal
|| bfs || again, that's like 5 days this month
covert arrow
||what would you prune ?~?||
||paths where you don't have anywhere else to go||
compact wasp
||pruning?||
||prune out impossible positions + positions that take too many steps||
magic oxide
so uh
hollow wharf
wtf with all the spoilers
magic oxide
||what happens if you get crushed by a blizzard||
covert arrow
||that's what you prune||
compact wasp
||what happens if you get crushed by a blizzard||
not possible
torn thorn
you die.
hollow wharf
you die.
devout tusk
||what happens if you get crushed by a blizzard||
you die
magic oxide
lmao
lunar jackal
ok I think advent of code will make me remember || bfs || for a long time
compact wasp
||keep track of minimum to reach end so far and prune whatever exceeds that||
this would probably be better to do with ||dfs||
stable shale
Not again. I go sleep
torn thorn
yeah i assume you'd want a ||dfs||
compact wasp
gonna do this after i wake up
lunar jackal
|| I mean it won't matter too much ||
compact wasp
gn y'all
stable shale
gn
compact wasp
|| I mean it won't matter too much ||
it does for pruning
stable shale
And good luck to anyone doing it
magic oxide
not possible
wdym not possible
compact wasp
wdym not possible
you cannot continue the simulation
so it's not a possibility you need to simulate
covert arrow
yes
covert arrow
||that's what you prune||
^
magic oxide
wow
woven solar
it's okay, you only die a little. it's like ElitzurโVaidman bomb testing.
topaz remnant
how do I stop advent of code pings
magic oxide
||just send elves into the blizzard until one surviving one comes out the other side||
wait
lunar jackal
||yeah why not just randomly simulate 1 million possibilities||
devout tusk
how do I stop advent of code pings
by going to sleep and closing discord
lunar jackal
I can't be bothered to code this
magic oxide
ok even the parser is annoying
modern terrace
yeah i can't do this i've never done pathfinding in my life before
devout tusk
I can't be bothered to code this
me since last 5 days. If I see a # or . in the next question, i stg imma rage quit
topaz remnant
by going to sleep and closing discord
itโs 6pm..
covert arrow
1pm here
devout tusk
itโs 6pm..
best time to sleep ๐
lunar jackal
me since last 5 days. If I see a # or . in the next question, i stg imma rage qu...
also v < > ^
feral hazel
can't work on aoc for another couple days
it was fun starting at the release and golfing with all of you
covert arrow
we've had enough pathfinding for this year
covert arrow
d25 might have something to do with ||hot air balloons||
source: ||https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zoe9st/anyone_know_if_theres_likely_to_be_more_in_the/||
modern terrace
i have all the time to do AoC if it were not for the fact i can't pathfind and figure out DP
woven solar
okay, at least the blizzard simulation has a cool ||convolution|| solution, yay
devout tusk
okay, at least the blizzard simulation has a cool ||convolution|| solution, yay
what will you ||convolve||? 
woven solar
what will you ||convolve||? <:pithink:652247559909277706>
||the array of blizzards with a kernel that shifts it to the correct side for each blizzard kind. Although I guess something like shift would be straightforward too||
hexed axle
earnest forge
Accidental name shadowing is the bane of my existence
pine tiger
what name did you shadow
torn thorn
aaa
pine tiger
what the complex numbers for
earnest forge
what name did you shadow
x and y lol
earnest forge
Yeah lol
Was getting instant finishes because the code to generate the next board state reused the variable for where the current position was lol
flat sequoia
I can't be bothered to code this
it's not really that bad
flat sequoia
ok even the parser is annoying
not really
you don't have to parse the <>v^
just keep it as that
my parsing is like, two lines
flat sequoia
i still got some fight in me!
nice
flat sequoia
i screwed up by switching < with ^ and > with v
for like 10 minutes
man
ok not 10
like 4 minutes
nah prob closer to 10
pine tiger
fff
lunar jackal
it's not really that bad
ok but I've coded || bfs like 5 times already ||
torn thorn
i used a heapq but it's not working
๐
"not working" meaning it's taking more than like 30s to do stuff
livid gull
slep through my 5 alarms ๐
torn thorn
rip
pallid shoal
Hi
molten fulcrum
Any of you done all days so far including today?
magic oxide
when should one use bfs vs dfs? because i feel like this year i've consistently done bfs/dfs, and then after struggling for a while figured out that i should instead be using the other one
silver wyvern
I seem to always be using a tuple(x, y) to represent vectors. Is there a builtin or decent library for handling vectors specifically? I seem to constantly be re-writing (or at least copying) my add_vectors() function etc.
Surely there is a decent python class where I can create a vector object with add, eq, etc dunders ?
covert arrow
We've been using complex numbers in the golf channel for some time
But I don't think stdlib has anything specifically for that
silver wyvern
I guess vectors are somewhat "non standard" but they are pretty common.
silver wyvern
There is literally a library called vector but I don't know how good it is
covert arrow
On pypi?
silver wyvern
Yeah, 0.x version though
silver wyvern
Surely there is an established vector lib for python ?
or is everyone just writing their own vector maths all the time?
covert arrow
Yeah I think everyone has their own class for that
silver wyvern
Looks like pyvect might be a bit more established:
https://pyvect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
covert arrow
Idk I haven't had much use for vectors before
I've used it for pygame which already has Vector2 and Vector3 and for a few aoc puzzles where I would just write a new class each time (or use complex numbers)
covert arrow
Same tbh
magic oxide
tho numpy arrays are less useful since you can't hash them
silver wyvern
complex is my go-to vector
how do you get complex numbers in python?
magic oxide
with the built-in complex class?
earnest forge
1 + 2j
magic oxide
oh yeah that's probably more helpful
quick zodiac
How long will the all the AOC channels stay up? Iโm on holiday and havenโt really had time to do it and could use the insight given on the channels.
polar sand
How long will the all the AOC channels stay up? Iโm on holiday and havenโt reall...
The spoiler chats will be around for the entire length of January, I'm assuming the same holds true for the rest
sleek cave
wrote my first recursive generator today thanks to aoc :D
minor cave
How long will the all the AOC channels stay up? Iโm on holiday and havenโt reall...
To confirm, these channels will hang around for January as well so people get plenty of time to complete them and get our AoC Completionist role
eternal jay
yo
pine tiger
when should one use bfs vs dfs? because i feel like this year i've consistently ...
i always use bfs tbh
dfs is actually easier to implement
but bfs is the search technique i learned first
quick zodiac
To confirm, these channels will hang around for January as well so people get pl...
Okay thanks so much. Also thanks @polar sand
stiff salmon
advent lest go
naive stone
if anyone's around, could use some help with day 20: https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1054629620831506482
magic oxide
but bfs is the search technique i learned first
yeah same
I learnt dfs after looking at someone else's solution on day 16
and I'm pretty sure I still don't know how to properly implement a dfs
I've just been bumbling through
pine tiger
if anyone's around, could use some help with day 20: https://discord.com/channel...
uh
the link you sent is kinda weird?
naive stone
weird how?
naive stone
yee
naive stone
lol no problem, sorry for the confusion
naive stone
part 1 yea. Currently working my way through part 2 now
pine tiger
nice
naive stone
thanks! i have @low condor to thank for that
naive stone
i need to finish day 16. I have no idea how to approach part 2, and i'm still confused why my solution for part 1 works for my input but is off by one for the example input
torn thorn
||iirc (some) people eliminated all of the unnecessary nodes and used a djikstra or smth to get the path from each node to all of the other nodes with a >0 flow rate, and then just kept track of positions and unopened valves and did a search that way||
naive stone
hmm, yea i considered ||modifying the graph to not have the 0 flow nodes||, but i managed to get a ||very standard dfs|| to work for part 1. (though still off by one on the example input for some unknown reason). I haven't thought of an approach for part 2 yet
i was doing ||dijkstra|| at first though
i'm wondering if i should revisit the ||dijkstra|| approach for part 2
torn thorn
probs should
||you know you can calc the amount of flow any particular pipe will give at any point t will output at the end right?||
naive stone
not sure what you mean. Shall we discuss in #1053191091672854528 so we don't need to keep spoiler tagging?
earnest forge
Ready for my ~0s delta today ๐
livid gull
top 100 hopefully, then guarenteed another top 100 lol
earnest forge
Guaranteed better p2 placement than p1 (or equal ig)
livid gull
true
earnest forge
GLHF everyone
earnest forge
Oh nooo rip
compact wasp
rip
earnest forge
Do it with QPython or something lol
magic oxide
merry Christmas everyone btw
earnest forge
(Python interpreter for Android)
compact wasp
yeah merry christmas
earnest forge
Happy Halloween ;)
compact wasp
็ๆฅๅฟซไน
magic oxide
lmao
compact wasp
oh nice
compact wasp
kuai
torn thorn
same same
compact wasp
tf is quai ๐
covert arrow
1 minute
torn thorn
whooo
compact wasp
glgl
covert arrow
glhf
earnest forge
Finish strong everyone
torn thorn
aops coding when
compact wasp
aops coding would be cool
covert arrow
yeah
shut trellisBOT
<@&518565788744024082> Good morning! Day 25 is ready to be attempted. View it online now at https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/25. Good luck!
magic oxide
literally just|| base 5?||
torn thorn
waht in the ungodly fuck
lunar jackal
with = and -
magic oxide
I can't read the site with sunlight shining lmao
lunar jackal
it's like || roman numerals but worse ||
foggy zealot
EGG
lunar jackal
d25 might have something to do with ||hot air balloons||
source: ||https://www.r...
wow good job
magic oxide
oh god ||balanced quinary||
earnest forge
I'm dumb how do I do it
dim pivot
This is my final scoreboard
compact wasp
i should've gotten top 10 honestly
minor cave
compact wasp
i wasn't even debugging
i was just like
"no way it's this easy, right?"
i was in doubt
dammit
dim pivot
what place did u get
compact wasp
30
covert arrow
145 smh
compact wasp
same
i trolled p2 as well
i waited a good 20 seconds
||where tf was the problem||
and then i realized
earnest forge
Ok I got it lol
flat sequoia
it's like that every year
compact wasp
oh lol
magic oxide
bruh
lunar jackal
where's the input for pt 2
lunar jackal
nvm
earnest forge
Seems fair
torn thorn
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AOC IS DONE
pine tiger
bruh
torn thorn
GG EVERYONE
torn thorn
fr
compact wasp
how
torn thorn
it wasn't that bad though tbh
earnest forge
Unparsing was kinda painful to figure out ngl
torn thorn
converting base snafu was annoying
pine tiger
unparsing was awful
torn thorn
unparsing wym
pine tiger
you had to realise to convert to base 5
compact wasp
no it wasn't
pine tiger
then figure out the logic
torn thorn
i just read the prolbme
pine tiger
3 -> = and add 1
compact wasp
y'all just have skill issues lmfao
pine tiger
4 -> - and add 1
compact wasp
literally not hard
torn thorn
y'all just have skill issues lmfao
wow
pine tiger
y'all just have skill issues lmfao
shut up i'm higher on the lb than you
pine tiger
well, diff strokes for diff folks
compact wasp
yeah
earnest forge
I forgot how good the post-season comments are lol
livid gull
earnest forge
Yes
torn thorn
dp*
earnest forge
kekw
torn thorn
lmao
earnest forge
there was day 16
Day 19 as well
torn thorn
there was day 16
idk i dp'd a lot of the graph problems
earnest forge
day 19 was just pruning hell
...or DP
stable shale
Can't do P2 because I still haven't done a couple :(
torn thorn
Can't do P2 because I still haven't done a couple :(
:(
pine tiger
there's so many goddamned states
earnest forge
Same way it did for day 16 wym
pine tiger
then how did a raw bfs solution without duplicates TLE
earnest forge
TLE?
pine tiger
time limit exceeded
earnest forge
Raw BFS uses way more memory than a DP approach
Hence the accesses are slower because more cache misses
pine tiger
overall time complexity should be ~ the same tho?
livid gull
time for the other years now
earnest forge
time for the other years now
I've only got to finish 2016 but damn it's hard
livid gull
2019 annoyed me
earnest forge
overall time complexity should be ~ the same tho?
Idk but here's my 19 for you to have a look https://github.com/Starwort/advent-of-code-2022/blob/master/day_19.py (spoilers, duh)
livid gull
with all its int code
compact wasp
time for the other years now
update your global leaderboard
earnest forge
with all its int code
Intcode was great wtf
torn thorn
anyways happy christmas to all est people whoo
pine tiger
Idk but here's my 19 for you to have a look <https://github.com/Starwort/advent-...
WHAT
earnest forge
2 commented out broken approaches
livid gull
update your global leaderboard
didnt realise anyone used it lol
pine tiger
Intcode was great wtf
bro intcode took 5 years off my life span
compact wasp
didnt realise anyone used it lol
lol
torn thorn
bro intcode took 5 years off my life span
๐
i remember writing just a function to do it then using a custom class
earnest forge
^
I hacked on my day 2 one for days 5 and 7 IIRC, then just made a proper extensible version after that
torn thorn
does anyone know what this mean
earnest forge
Reference to INTERCAL I think
torn thorn
lmao what
earnest forge
That isn't surprising, it's basically an anti-googlewhack
earnest forge
No
earnest forge
exec code inside one if you need conditional side effects
livid gull
torn thorn
where'd you get that lmfao
earnest forge
INTERCAL documentation
torn thorn
also what's this
livid gull
last year problem
earnest forge
Reference to previous AoC puzzle
livid gull
pain and suffering
torn thorn
ah
earnest forge
torn thorn
looks painful
woven solar
now I'm getting flashbacks to that task where you needed to organize the amphipods by rooms
torn thorn
"you pull out your flint and steel and a portal suddenly appears"
woven solar
and to Beacon Scanner ๐ฉ
earnest forge
now I'm getting flashbacks to that task where you needed to organize the amphipo...
Oh god that one
torn thorn
"you walk through and there's the same droplet, but 8x smaller"
woven solar
by the way
torn thorn
fr
woven solar
did y'all notice that this year we didn't have a single gameoflife task?
torn thorn
elves please use rsa or aes encryption ๐
woven solar
unless the elves in the blizzard count I guess
torn thorn
did y'all notice that this year we didn't have a single gameoflife task?
we kinda did
with the uhhh
elves problem
search
it's game-of-life-y
close enough
dim pivot
not enough math/clever problems
compact wasp
math/clever problems is fun
dim pivot
last yr was better
torn thorn
painful to do at 12am when brain no work
livid gull
Okay im going back to sleep, nobody is awake at 5:30 here! Merry Christmas everyone and hope to see you all next year!! Cya!!
woven solar
we did, however, have like 3-4 graph or grid search problems
torn thorn
cya!!
compact wasp
cya
honestly i didn't expect to place in top 100 at all this year
since it was my first time
torn thorn
oof
wispy glacier
y'all just have skill issues lmfao
this kind of commentary is very unwelcoming to other users. this is your final warning
compact wasp
ok
torn thorn
i can see how some people might see diffy though
wispy glacier
to a person struggling it'd easily be belittling
woven solar
I'm so happy this year didn't need me to write a fucking octtree
torn thorn
lmao
earnest forge
octtree
?
woven solar
a tree with 8 children per node, commonly used for 3d spatial partitioning
compact wasp
yeah
earnest forge
Ah ok
torn thorn
interesting
compact wasp
next year i'm gonna forget that i'm on my final warning and then i'll get banned on day 5 of aoc for saying people have skill issues
๐ฏ
wispy glacier
or change your attitude to be befitting of our code of conduct now so you don't have issues again whether or not it's aoc
compact wasp
true
wispy glacier
it's just a big turn off for beginners
torn thorn
what does "RTFM" mean?
compact wasp
read the fucking manual
torn thorn
ah
earnest forge
^
torn thorn
wait people say that
torn thorn
great question
woven solar
Now that AoC is done, I'm considering jumping into the current codingame contest. It's still a week until the final league opens, and this year's problem isn't even a continuous-time one.
compact wasp
what does "RTFM" mean?
was this trying to bait me into saying "just google it"
๐
woven solar
if you enjoyed writing dfs 4 times this year, you'll also enjoy writing monte-carlo tree search for this ๐ฅด
compact wasp
don't wanna do mcts ๐ฆ
torn thorn
~~if you enjoyed writing dfs 4 times this year, you'll also enjoy writing monte-...
please no
torn thorn
was this trying to bait me into saying "just google it"
uhhhhhhhhhhh
compact wasp
i am not about to get banned today
not happening
maybe you can try again on day 5 next year
earnest forge
maybe you can try again on day 5 next year
Why day 5 specifically though
pine tiger
@earnest forge GG
earnest forge
Lmao nice
compact wasp
Why day 5 specifically though
because i'll forget aoc is even a thing for the first 4 days
torn thorn
lmao
compact wasp
until someone in my cs club discord pings me
devout tusk
this may be the shortest golf I guess
torn thorn
until someone in my cs club discord pings me
u don't have to answer this but what uni ?~?
compact wasp
a bad one
torn thorn
rip
torn thorn
if it has a good name it'll make up for it ๐คทโโ๏ธ
compact wasp
wisconsin ๐
earnest forge
Now that AoC is done, I'm considering jumping into the current codingame contest...
Have you ever tried Terminal? https://terminal.c1games.com/
torn thorn
uwm im guessing then ๐คทโโ๏ธ
compact wasp
madison yeah
torn thorn
ayo wait im applying there ๐ ๐
torn thorn
yeah basically
torn thorn
what gpa?
compact wasp
4.2 weighted, 3.4 unweighted
torn thorn
rips
compact wasp
was 60th percentile for my high school
torn thorn
my school doesn't do percentile lel
compact wasp
at least the classes here are freelo
pine tiger
but it's mid for cs
bro calling t20 cs
compact wasp
t20 is pretty mid though
pine tiger
well i'm sorry it's not fricking cornell
compact wasp
actually i shouldn't call it mid
pine tiger
compact wasp
i might get banned for that
pine tiger
what rule does that violate
compact wasp
the same one that saying people have skill issues violated
torn thorn
no response yet ๐
pine tiger
you have a twisted definition of safety
torn thorn
my essays were a mess lel
compact wasp
you have a twisted definition of safety
cs gets admitted into l&s so you're basically competing with wisconsinite farmer children
pine tiger
oh wlel
compact wasp
i'm just gonna say that's not very tough as competition
torn thorn
you have a twisted definition of safety
scoir shows 100% chance of getting in
from history
but idk
compact wasp
cs admission rates are the same as normal l&s admission rates, because it's the same thing
wispy glacier
!mute 393172660630323200 2d comments like "competing with wisconsinite farmer children" is pretty elitist and not welcome here. take a break
marsh currentBOT
:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied mute to @compact wasp until <t:1672120723:f> (2 days).
torn thorn
nooo :(
wispy glacier
if you guys enjoy the aoc event and how it's done on python discord then you might want to take our culture seriously
torn thorn
he was skating on thin ice im ngl but like really? damn ๐
modern harness
I was 1 point away from 7th on the pydis leaderboard. 50416 to 50415
earnest forge
Lmaoo rip
torn thorn
isn't it hot air baloons
pine tiger
ok but 2020
we had a goddamn hurricane blow around
2019
there were sparkles everywhere, a dot was zooming from one planet to another
this year it's just
...
balloons?
devout tusk
:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied **mute** to <@393172660630323200> until <t...
Dang. Rip
LMAO
pine tiger
what if the baloons like traveeled over the boar
boar?
torn thorn
board