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tender swallow Dec 14, 2025, 6:14 AM

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It felt too flat until day 9 at which point it became erratic

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I was expecting an increase in the rate of change of difficulty to go along with the shortening to 12 days

bright spindle Dec 14, 2025, 7:16 AM

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tender swallow I was expecting an increase in the rate of change of difficulty to go along with...

If we take these graphs as a proxy for difficulty: https://www.maurits.vdschee.nl/scatterplot/, it seems like most years follow the trend of "mostly flat and then erratic at the end". There are only a few where the curve is a bit smoother.

tender swallow Dec 14, 2025, 7:33 AM

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I suppose my expectations were shaped by 2024 mostly

vast jetty Dec 14, 2025, 2:04 PM

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same

ripe meteor Dec 14, 2025, 2:13 PM

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https://aoc.xhyrom.dev/
day1 part2 also stuck out for a lot of people

buoyant perch Dec 14, 2025, 11:04 PM

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Is there an AoC DSA book? That would be very useful. This is my first AoC and it’s been a great re-introduction to raw, low level DSA stuff. I’ve learned a lot by reading other people’s solutions. I broke out my old DSA textbooks and realize they don’t cover a lot of the things that are required in some of the AoC challenges, like computational geometry and Disjoin Set Union, etc. Whoever is running AoC should come out with a series on DSA that are useful in these problems.

ivory vigil Dec 14, 2025, 11:26 PM

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buoyant perch Is there an AoC DSA book? That would be very useful. This is my first AoC and it...

AoC is run by Eric Wastl. He's semi-active on the AoC subreddit. AFAIK he's not on this Discord server.
It's fairly easy to get people to share was DSAs they've used for any given problem, though not everyone solves them the same ways.

strange zinc Dec 14, 2025, 11:28 PM

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Some common ones off the top of my head are traversal algos, such as BFS, DFS, PQs.

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Then as Isaac stated, each person solves it differently.

What could be useful is looking at other people's solutions and seeing how they approached it

ivory vigil Dec 14, 2025, 11:29 PM

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Dijksta 😄

cyan sleet Dec 15, 2025, 11:19 AM

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ivory vigil Dijksta 😄

and then the zillion times that people use Dijkstra when they don't need to

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and get the overhead of a priority queue

vast jetty Dec 15, 2025, 12:09 PM

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strange zinc Some common ones off the top of my head are traversal algos, such as BFS, DFS, P...

what is pq

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priority queue?

silent nymph Dec 15, 2025, 12:21 PM

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Same. They've kinda grown on me.

silent nymph Dec 15, 2025, 12:31 PM

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strange zinc Some common ones off the top of my head are traversal algos, such as BFS, DFS, P...

PQ is a traversal algo?

magic oxide Dec 15, 2025, 12:53 PM

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Pijkstra's Qlgorithm

strange zinc Dec 15, 2025, 3:19 PM

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shhh, it was late

strange zinc Dec 15, 2025, 3:20 PM

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magic oxide Pijkstra's Qlgorithm

indeed. this 😉

ivory vigil Dec 15, 2025, 4:33 PM

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vast jetty priority queue?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/queue.html#queue.PriorityQueue

vast jetty Dec 15, 2025, 4:34 PM

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yeah okay

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~~(use heapq)~~

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idk the difference actually

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since i dont know the one you sent

ivory vigil Dec 15, 2025, 4:45 PM

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PriorityQueue is a "higher level" of abstraction but does provide something similar to heapq.

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heapq gives you helper functions to use an array as a heap. PriorityQueue is a class with helper methods (and is thread safe).

pine tiger Dec 16, 2025, 12:45 AM

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heapq is a lot faster i think

ivory vigil Dec 16, 2025, 1:02 AM

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Well, not needing to do thread-safe locking helps 🙂 I suspect heapq is faster. I'm not sure about "a lot"

pine tiger Dec 16, 2025, 1:55 AM

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idk i just have a vague memory of some solutions w/ heapq passing while TLEing w the thread safe version

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 4:08 AM

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I don't understand the problem and goal of the day 8 😩

ivory vigil Dec 16, 2025, 4:13 AM

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mortal bronze I don't understand the problem and goal of the day 8 😩

p1? p2?

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You got a whole bunch of points. You want to draw connections between pairs using a minimum length line. Draw the 10 shortest lines possible. Count "groups".

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 4:35 AM

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do we need same count of junctions to count of line??

ivory vigil Dec 16, 2025, 4:37 AM

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mortal bronze do we need same count of ``junctions`` to count of line??

No

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Well. p1 or p2?

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For p2 you ||want to connect all junctions into one circuit which means a connection/line to/from each junction which means a minimum of junctions/2 lines to just pair them.||
I suppose the way to ||connect n points with the fewest lines would be n-1 lines||

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 4:48 AM

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not even finished on p1 😩

ivory vigil Dec 16, 2025, 5:05 AM

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mortal bronze not even finished on p1 😩

p1 tells you the exact number of lines to draw

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It's part of the instructions

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 8:27 AM

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Still don't understand

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 8:30 AM

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ivory vigil It's part of the instructions

The first sample it doesn't

ivory vigil Dec 16, 2025, 8:31 AM

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mortal bronze The first sample it doesn't

The example says 10 connections. The last paragraph says to use 1000.

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(for the real input)

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 8:32 AM

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Ohhh so with a given wires, we should group the points that are closer together???

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Each point can have only 1 wire???

tall solar Dec 16, 2025, 8:35 AM

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I notice today this is also a channel

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Lol

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 8:36 AM

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Nvm "connecting pairs"

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 8:55 AM

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mortal bronze Ohhh so with a given wires, we should group the points that are closer together...

pick the 2 closest points, if they are not connected yet then connect them

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for p1 do this 1000 times (10 for the example input)

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 8:56 AM

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cyan sleet pick the 2 closest points, if they are not connected yet then connect them

What if one of the point is alr connected somewhere

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Do nothing right??

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 8:56 AM

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if the points are already connected somehow you don't connect them

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E.g. if you already have connections A-B and A-C you can't add B-C

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because you can already reach C from B

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 8:58 AM

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Wait sooo, it's allowed if only one are alr connected but not if both have connections???

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 8:58 AM

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if one is reachable from the other

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 8:59 AM

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So I need to create some sort of set of set ._.

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 8:59 AM

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i.e. "can you follow connections to get from one to the other?"

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 8:59 AM

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Ohhh I got it thanks

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 8:59 AM

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mortal bronze So I need to create some sort of set of set ._.

some sort of set yes

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there is a specific structure that is made for exactly this kind of tracking of connections/reachability

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 9:03 AM

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ConnectedSet()

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A_FurryDogDerp

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 9:09 AM

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cyan sleet E.g. if you already have connections A-B and A-C you can't add B-C

Just thinking... If A is closer to B and C is closer to A why would C try to reach B???

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:11 AM

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You're asked to try to make connections based on the distances between points

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B and C might be the next closest pair to try to connect

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e.g. consider

...........
.A.B.....D.
.C.........
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the order of pairs of distances would be A-C, A-B, B-C, B-D, A-D, C-D

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 9:15 AM

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I alr realized that

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:15 AM

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A-C adds a connection, A-B adds, B-C doesn't, B-D adds, the rest don't

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 9:16 AM

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But next question... How would you get more than 1 circuit if you just connect the closest junction that's not alr in the same circuit??

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:17 AM

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You would get 1 circuit if you try to connect everything

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 9:17 AM

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Cus eventually you can reach the other circuit

tender swallow Dec 16, 2025, 9:17 AM

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in the intermediate states you have multiple circuits though

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which is the point of p1

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 9:18 AM

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Just realized you can't eventually makes sure every circuit to be connected cus you have limited wires lol

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:21 AM

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mortal bronze Just realized you can't eventually makes sure every circuit to be connected cus ...

for p1 it's not the wires that are limited

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But the number of pairs you try to connect

tender swallow Dec 16, 2025, 9:22 AM

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isn't that equivalent? pithink

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:22 AM

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no

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you might fail to add the wire

tender swallow Dec 16, 2025, 9:23 AM

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I guess it depends on how you interpret the "nothing happens" text. the pairs where "nothing happens" still count towards the limit, right?

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:23 AM

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if it was limited number of wires I don't even need to compute anything to know the answer

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:24 AM

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tender swallow I guess it depends on how you interpret the "nothing happens" text. the pairs wh...

yes it does count

tender swallow Dec 16, 2025, 9:24 AM

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you could think of "nothing happens" as "you do join them even though they're in the same circuit, but no changes happen to the DSU of circuits"

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:24 AM

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I guess

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Maybe I'm too MST brained

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considering this is literally ||Kruskal's algorithm||

mortal bronze Dec 16, 2025, 9:29 AM

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This sounds correct???

||```0,sort the points
1,Pick the closet possible nodes and connect
2,Do the 1 untill you ran out of wires
3,pick the 3 largest group
4,multiply the count of each group

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@cyan sleet ??

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That's for p1

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:33 AM

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Right

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 9:34 AM

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tender swallow you could think of "nothing happens" as "you do join them even though they're in...

Yeah ok, maybe this is how the problem is actually phrased

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I did not really read the flavor text :P

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Just enough to go "oh, this is ||Kruskal||"

woven oriole Dec 16, 2025, 1:34 PM

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The entire question from start to beginning is screaming ||kruskals||

nimble furnace Dec 16, 2025, 3:00 PM

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Are there AoC completionist roles this year?

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oooo there are!!

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sorry if I missed this in some FAQ but how do I snag it? For the first time ever I've gotten through to the end :D

jovial jay Dec 16, 2025, 3:13 PM

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Day 6 Part 2 is pretty confusing. I'll figure out, but it is

bright spindle Dec 16, 2025, 3:17 PM

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nimble furnace sorry if I missed this in some FAQ but how do I snag it? For the first time ever...

You have to link your Discord username with your AoC username

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You use the &aoc link command in #aoc-bot-commands

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And then wait 15 minutes

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 3:23 PM

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jovial jay Day 6 Part 2 is pretty confusing. I'll figure out, but it is

assuming you parse the input appropriately, the only real difference between p1 and p2 should be ||a transpose||

hidden musk Dec 16, 2025, 3:24 PM

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||the unfortunate part is that the easy way to parse p1 kinda cooks you 😔 ||

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 3:25 PM

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thankfully in C there was no easy way

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I'm impressed by kat's premonition

nimble furnace Dec 16, 2025, 3:31 PM

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bright spindle You use the &aoc link command in <#897932607545823342>

thank you :>

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is there any verification? or can anyone claim to be anyone but it's just a bit sad to pretend to be someone else

half swan Dec 16, 2025, 3:33 PM

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no

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I think the assumption is you link your (aoc) username once u join the lb so someone can't link it to their discord acc

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you could always dm modmail if that happened to you ig?

nimble furnace Dec 16, 2025, 3:34 PM

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nope, i'm all good, more just a point of curiosity

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but ty!

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wooo im all pretty and pink now

minor cave Dec 16, 2025, 3:43 PM

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Yeah, if we do have an issue of someone claiming someone else's name we have the ability to blacklist that person entirely from the completionist role

low condor Dec 16, 2025, 3:54 PM

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jovial jay Day 6 Part 2 is pretty confusing. I'll figure out, but it is

Day 6 is pretty much ||Advent of Parsing|| but that's my favourite type

cyan sleet Dec 16, 2025, 4:03 PM

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＆aoc link kutiekatj7

magic oxide Dec 16, 2025, 4:04 PM

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does kat even do AoC

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or does she just make us suffer

minor cave Dec 16, 2025, 4:04 PM

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some years for at least the first week or so, yes

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This year not a chance, too busy and year sucks too hard

magic oxide Dec 16, 2025, 4:04 PM

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reasonable

low condor Dec 16, 2025, 4:07 PM

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AOC does take its toll

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I am thankful it's only 12 days

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I could not have a hope in hell of finishing

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but with 12 I can drive myself over the line by pushing myself on a few difficult puzzles

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with the 25 day ones, by the time I get past day 16 or so I really lack that energy to do it

jovial jay Dec 16, 2025, 4:14 PM

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I'd just do what I like and can, AoC isn't that important. Coding is for fun for me.

low condor Dec 16, 2025, 4:15 PM

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I do get that, but I like to complete the year, and I like to be able to keep up as much as I can with the various days

naive wharf Dec 16, 2025, 8:07 PM

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does day 12 part 2 'exist'?

bright spindle Dec 16, 2025, 8:10 PM

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naive wharf does day 12 part 2 'exist'?

||No, there's always only one part for the last day. I think you don't get the last star until you complete all the others though.||

naive wharf Dec 16, 2025, 8:23 PM

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bright spindle ||No, there's always only one part for the last day. I think you don't get the l...

what's the requirement for the AoC role again?

tender swallow Dec 16, 2025, 8:23 PM

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link your Discord account to your AoC account
and finish all the puzzles before January

buoyant perch Dec 17, 2025, 1:18 AM

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How long does the AoC completion badge last?

minor cave Dec 17, 2025, 1:18 AM

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Until mid to late January

warm gazelle Dec 17, 2025, 2:55 AM

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yipeee

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i'm particularly proud of day 9 part 2

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this is the first time i've done all stars in a given AoC year

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oh hey it's santa

jovial jay Dec 17, 2025, 3:23 AM

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Finally am being able to work on Day 6 part 2

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Being able to see the layout is great

tall solar Dec 17, 2025, 7:08 AM

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jovial jay

What's that?

cloud flower Dec 17, 2025, 9:09 AM

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&aoc link cod1r

shut trellisBOT Dec 17, 2025, 9:09 AM

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cloud flower &aoc link cod1r

You have linked your Discord ID to aocleaderboardnamegoeshere.

cloud flower Dec 17, 2025, 9:10 AM

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&aoc link cod1r

shut trellisBOT Dec 17, 2025, 9:10 AM

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cloud flower &aoc link cod1r

Your linked account has been changed to cod1r.

bright spindle Dec 17, 2025, 9:11 AM

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I finished AoC 2015 and started on AoC 2016 now

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It's starting to get kinda addictive

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It's also fun to gradually break out general utilities into a reusable library

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That provides benefit across days and years

noble perch Dec 17, 2025, 9:48 AM

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wait is there only 12 this year?

bright spindle Dec 17, 2025, 9:49 AM

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Yep

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&adventofcode stats <- are these based on all the people in the Pydis AoC leaderboard, even if they didn't participate this year?

vast jetty Dec 17, 2025, 11:34 AM

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bright spindle \&adventofcode stats <- are these based on all the people in the Pydis AoC leade...

clearly so, right?

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if it was just people who did participate then the day 1 star percentage would be much higher

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like almost 100 id assume, who starts from day 2?

bright spindle Dec 17, 2025, 11:35 AM

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Feels like it'd be more interesting numbers if it only included people who have completed at least one star.

vast jetty Dec 17, 2025, 11:35 AM

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yeah we should have an option for tht

bright spindle Dec 17, 2025, 11:35 AM

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Lots of the people on that list are probably not even active.

vast jetty Dec 17, 2025, 11:39 AM

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bright spindle Feels like it'd be more interesting numbers if it only included people who have ...

you can use d1p1 number as a pretty good heuristic

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and use that to normalise the rest

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its not terribly fun but its doable

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if we have the repo for the bot public, i could put in a PR

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okay it is public

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might do that later then

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okay its this

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gotta poke around to find out how exactly to find 'number of users who actually did anything'

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so im gonna procrastinate it to later

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but doable

jovial jay Dec 17, 2025, 12:27 PM

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tall solar What's that?

Screenshot of G'MIC display, I can see arrays and so on.

tall solar Dec 17, 2025, 12:30 PM

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jovial jay Screenshot of G'MIC display, I can see arrays and so on.

Ohh

hollow summit Dec 17, 2025, 1:06 PM

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@vast jetty i added cache

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help

vast jetty Dec 17, 2025, 1:35 PM

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LMAO WHAT

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does it run at least

half swan Dec 17, 2025, 1:48 PM

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hollow summit <@714463096965431357> i added cache

which day is it?

vast jetty Dec 17, 2025, 1:54 PM

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d9p2

warm gazelle Dec 17, 2025, 4:41 PM

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warm gazelle yipeee

who do i need to contact to get the pink 'completed AOC' role? proof of completion is here

peak dock Dec 17, 2025, 4:42 PM

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To get it, you need to link your discord account to your account name of the Advent of Code Leaderboard via &aoc link aocleaderboardnamegoeshere. It's automatically assigned every ~15 minutes or so.

warm gazelle Dec 17, 2025, 4:42 PM

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peak dock > To get it, you need to link your discord account to your account name of the A...

ah, thanks!

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&aoc AlexanderJCS

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&aoc link AlexanderJCS

shut trellisBOT Dec 17, 2025, 4:43 PM

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warm gazelle &aoc link AlexanderJCS

You have linked your Discord ID to AlexanderJCS.

warm gazelle Dec 17, 2025, 7:00 PM

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hmm, i still don't have the pink role

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i should have it, right?

vast jetty Dec 17, 2025, 7:15 PM

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youll get it eventually ig

ivory vigil Dec 17, 2025, 7:17 PM

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It should've happened by now, I think? But I don't know how the bot works.

warm gazelle Dec 17, 2025, 7:17 PM

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i don't care that much if i don't get it but i do think it's peculiar

tender swallow Dec 17, 2025, 7:20 PM

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warm gazelle i don't care that much if i don't get it but i do think it's peculiar

check &aoc lb to see if it picks up your stats

warm gazelle Dec 17, 2025, 7:20 PM

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&aoc lb

shut trellisBOT Dec 17, 2025, 7:20 PM

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Wrong Channel

You are not allowed to use that command here. Please use the #aoc-bot-commands, #sir-lancebot-playground, #bot-commands channel(s) instead.

warm gazelle Dec 17, 2025, 7:20 PM

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alright then

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oh wait

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i need to join the python private lb

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because public lb doesn't exist anymore

vast jetty Dec 17, 2025, 8:48 PM

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rip

buoyant perch Dec 17, 2025, 9:53 PM

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😢 I don’t think I’m going to be able to finish part 2 for 9 & 10, and I still have no idea how to start day 12. I had never even heard of Integer Linear Programming before last week. 😂

cloud flower Dec 17, 2025, 9:59 PM

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hi

tall solar Dec 17, 2025, 10:05 PM

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cloud flower hi

@cloud flower 👋

bright spindle Dec 17, 2025, 10:07 PM

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buoyant perch 😢 I don’t think I’m going to be able to finish part 2 for 9 & 10, and I still h...

||Day 9 part 2 and day 12 don't require any kind of special algorithm to solve. Day 10 is tough without an ILP solver, but you can start by learning how linear programming works. There are intros on youtube that don't require any advanced math, for example.||

rancid creek Dec 17, 2025, 10:34 PM

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buoyant perch 😢 I don’t think I’m going to be able to finish part 2 for 9 & 10, and I still h...

it's ok to treat this as an educational experience, either google/chatgpt questions, or ask for hints. It's better to get help solving it and learn then to not bother. After you have a working solution you can probably even tinker with it a little to see how it works and get a better understanding.

||The ILP one really is "here's an ILP problem, here's tools for solving that, can you code it"||

The others might just be more about hints about certain common algorithms.

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 12:25 AM

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@next pumice I've figured out a metric for 2025, and updated my difficulty estimation chart

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:27 AM

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rancid creek <@189386465904558080> I've figured out a metric for 2025, and updated my difficu...

what is it

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interesting, no extreme

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insane got cut off, then extreme

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 12:27 AM

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next pumice what is it

I used time for multiple solutions to be posted to adventofcode's solutions megathread.
it's not perfect, but will do.

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:28 AM

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seems like it gets easier and easier within the years

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:28 AM

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rancid creek I used time for multiple solutions to be posted to adventofcode's solutions mega...

thats pretty neat

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your equations might be off though

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the time an answer is posted isn't the time it got sent

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but there might be a more or less constant time between sending it and posting abbout it

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if there are a lot of posts

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 12:29 AM

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it's close enough, I don't think there is minutes of extra time added.

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:30 AM

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um i guess u're right

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i remember someone saying 9 and 10 are hard

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so it fits well in that regard as well

jovial jay Dec 18, 2025, 12:31 AM

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I'm going to attempt 2015 day 1

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will I regret it

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 12:31 AM

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it's mostly just to be a rough estimate for comparing problems against each other, so as long as the same metric applies it's a reaonable guess.

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 12:32 AM

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jovial jay will I regret it

the earlier years people were still figuring out aoc so I think the times were longer.

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:32 AM

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jovial jay I'm going to attempt 2015 day 1

i just thought the same thing lol

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what i also thought is that its not really insane

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its the first ever posted puzzle

jovial jay Dec 18, 2025, 12:32 AM

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pffff, that's not bad

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:32 AM

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it took time because aoc didn't exist until that exercise

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(if the calculation is time based)

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 12:33 AM

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next pumice (if the calculation is time based)

the original metric was time for the leaderboard to be filled.

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:33 AM

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also hard this year might be extreme last year

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:33 AM

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rancid creek the original metric was time for the leaderboard to be filled.

uh so pretty much time based

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the first one to get into the leaderboard?

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 12:34 AM

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the last one.

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:34 AM

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i see

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 12:34 AM

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I wanted to mitigate for the fastest scores being aberations. 🙂

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:35 AM

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same thing though

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if there are less people it takes longer for it to get filled

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as years moved on puzzles would get solved more quickly, since more participants

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extreme difficulty in 2020 might be insane in 2017 or something

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well, interesting

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i'll go to eat now

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 12:37 AM

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I think it's not quite that bad. participation numbers grew after the first year, but top 100 out of 50,000 vs top 100 out of 500,000 is not going to be that bad as a relative value.

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:39 AM

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the question is if it was 50000

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:39 AM

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rancid creek I think it's not quite that bad. participation numbers grew after the first year...

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i think when it started i doubt it had more than a 1000 participants

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and it started in 2015

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but i dont really know the statistics

jovial jay Dec 18, 2025, 12:41 AM

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2015 Day 1 is a damn joke

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this was my answer:

__main__:
it input.txt
fill. >begin(t=0;);t+=i==(_'(')?1:-1;t==-1;end(print(t););
e {yM+1}

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 12:42 AM

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i honestly didn't hear about aoc bbefore like 2023

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i heard about it from this server

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and this year i saw many references of aoc

jovial jay Dec 18, 2025, 12:45 AM

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2015 day 2 is easy peasy too

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yet rated extreme

pine tiger Dec 18, 2025, 1:12 AM

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rancid creek <@189386465904558080> I've figured out a metric for 2025, and updated my difficu...

lol, are these based off of geometry dash demon difficulties

minor cave Dec 18, 2025, 1:16 AM

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next pumice i think when it started i doubt it had more than a 1000 participants

This is actually very easy to answer and also look up.
Eric Wastl originally planned for 70 people to participate. By midnight 81 people were signed up. Within 12 hours, it increased to 4,000. By the end of the month it was 52,000.

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 2:21 AM

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jovial jay this was my answer: ``` __main__: it input.txt fill. >begin(t=0;);t+=i==(_'(')?1...

spoilers!

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 2:21 AM

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jovial jay yet rated extreme

yeah I think I need to go back and retrofit day 1.

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maybe other days

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 2:22 AM

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minor cave This is actually very easy to answer and also look up. Eric Wastl originally pla...

Kindof awesome numbers really.

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want a fun kinda related anecdote?

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back in the day (1993), magic the gathering went to gencon virtually unheard of, bringing more than enough product to last the event, figuring if enough people tried it out it they might talk about it when they got home.

of course they sold out of the material they had available day1.

day 2, the lady that had been collecting the money failed to show up!
So they went looking for her.

...and found her passed out in her hotel room sleeping on a giant pile of cash.

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 2:30 AM

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i think that another interesting metric could be the average time gap between answers

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the more participants the lower the average gap

minor cave Dec 18, 2025, 2:34 AM

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next pumice the more participants the lower the average gap

The difficulty of the problem is more of an indicator with large or short differences in time

next pumice Dec 18, 2025, 3:05 AM

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minor cave The difficulty of the problem is more of an indicator with large or short differ...

if its a hard problem it will take longer and the gaps would be bigger, that's true

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but if 1 problem took 1 hour in average in 2016 and a different problem took 1 hour in average in 2017
it's more likely that in 2017 the gaps were smaller, because more people participated at it

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the gaps gives u an indication of how many people participated

minor cave Dec 18, 2025, 3:18 AM

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I don't think the assumption that the differences in gaps is due to participation is one you can or should make confidently

jovial jay Dec 18, 2025, 3:38 AM

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rancid creek spoilers!

I should do spoilers next time, but I don't think anyone can read it besides myself here.

zinc kindle Dec 18, 2025, 4:56 AM

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Finally. It took days of trying to figure out and refine algorithms, but I managed to solve Day10 part2. (edit: without looking up the algorithm)
Well, it took ~2 minutes to run (benchmark is 10 seconds), on rust release mode while using multithreading, so there's room for improvement. (especially since I initially planned to complete all 12 days in Haskell this year)
Now I just have to figure out some edge cases in day09 part2 by Dec 25 and I'll have completed the year before my self-imposed deadline.

buoyant perch Dec 18, 2025, 6:57 AM

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rancid creek <@189386465904558080> I've figured out a metric for 2025, and updated my difficu...

The first ever AoC problem was Insane level? Wow, what a way to scare away your participants. lol 😵‍💫

buoyant perch Dec 18, 2025, 6:59 AM

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next pumice i honestly didn't hear about aoc bbefore like 2023

I heard about it for the first time about 3 weeks ago, from this server.

bright spindle Dec 18, 2025, 8:33 AM

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buoyant perch The first ever AoC problem was Insane level? Wow, what a way to scare away your ...

I don't think it's particularly hard, I think it was just that there weren't a lot of people doing the puzzles at that time.

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Since, y'know, nobody had done any before.

ripe meteor Dec 18, 2025, 8:52 AM

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Day1 2015 is just balancing parentheses

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Here's an easy puzzle to warm you up.

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 9:25 AM

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buoyant perch The first ever AoC problem was Insane level? Wow, what a way to scare away your ...

it was a bad metric, really it should be classed as an easy

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I've gone back and reclassified all of 2015

bright spindle Dec 18, 2025, 9:36 AM

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Oh yeah 2015 day 22 is the wizard rpg one, right?

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I did that one just a few days ago and my solution is like 400 lines

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 9:53 AM

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I haven't done it yet, but now I want to. I need to find the time to go back and do all of 2015.

buoyant perch Dec 18, 2025, 10:16 AM

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Well now that I know there's a 10 year backlog of these, I have a new hobby for a while. Until I get bored. Dumb ADHD brain. lol

hollow summit Dec 18, 2025, 11:08 AM

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rancid creek

is insane > extreme

bright spindle Dec 18, 2025, 11:10 AM

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hollow summit is insane > extreme

I think so, assuming the color range corresponds to the EM spectrum.

uncut mason Dec 18, 2025, 2:29 PM

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How do I get the completionist role?

ripe meteor Dec 18, 2025, 2:30 PM

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You complete all the puzzles and you link your account

uncut mason Dec 18, 2025, 2:30 PM

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Link where? ModMail?

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And all puzzles for a year? Or all for every year? 😱

ripe meteor Dec 18, 2025, 2:31 PM

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For the year

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Also check #aoc-faq

tender swallow Dec 18, 2025, 2:32 PM

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uncut mason Link where? ModMail?

join a PyDis leaderboard (you can get an invite link by running /aoc join in #aoc-bot-commands) then link your Discord account to your AoC account using &aoc link youraocusername again in #aoc-bot-commands

uncut mason Dec 18, 2025, 2:34 PM

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Thanks

rancid creek Dec 18, 2025, 7:08 PM

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hollow summit is insane > extreme

yes. extreme is "top 100 finished in under 80 minutes" insane is "top 100 took over 80 minutes to finish"

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the original portrait version of the chart had a key, I cut it for the landscape view to make the image smaller for discord.

cyan sleet Dec 18, 2025, 7:26 PM

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bright spindle I did that one just a few days ago and my solution is like 400 lines

200 for me

bright spindle Dec 18, 2025, 8:43 PM

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cyan sleet 200 for me

I left some of my old "strategies" in there that I didn't end up using for the solution just cause it was fun to write

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I could probably golf it down a lot

cyan sleet Dec 18, 2025, 8:44 PM

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Mine isn't exactly golfed, but it's a fun eval horror

buoyant perch Dec 18, 2025, 10:06 PM

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Well I just have day 10 part 2 to do. And I know that I can just use a ILP solver from a library like scipy, but I first want to learn about ILP just to understand how it solves this problem. But before I even do THAT, I'm going to experiment and see if my AI Agent can code a correct solution from only the AoC instructions! It solved for the test data, it's having problems with the prod data, which keeps timing out. So it keeps modifying code and trying again. We'll see if it can actually do it or not.

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Lol it reports success, but what it did was stop trying to run the prod data. Instead it just runs the test data and reports success. CHEEKY! That's like when a jr. dev comments out a failing test because they can't figure out why it's failing. 🙄

ivory vigil Dec 18, 2025, 10:11 PM

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buoyant perch Well I just have day 10 part 2 to do. And I know that I can just use a ILP solve...

Note, it's possible to solve it without ||spoiler ILP|| too 😄

mortal bronze Dec 18, 2025, 10:15 PM

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rancid creek

The extreme is kinda scary.....

low condor Dec 18, 2025, 10:15 PM

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buoyant perch Lol it reports success, but what it did was stop trying to run the prod data. In...

Sounds like classic AI to me!

buoyant perch Dec 18, 2025, 10:17 PM

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Right. That's why we can never put AI in control of anything important. Someday, one of them might decide the solution to world hunger is just to eliminate humans. Problem solved, right? Plenty of food now.

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OMG, so my AI now tells me "I can't verify the solution because it keeps timing out. Can YOU run it for me and see if it works?"

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🤦

low condor Dec 18, 2025, 10:34 PM

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FYI - the author of AOC flat out recommends NOT to use AI on his puzzles

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I still use it where I need some direction on where to go next and would probably not get there on my own - but I would not recommend having the AI write the code out

strange zinc Dec 18, 2025, 10:43 PM

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^ same for me

buoyant perch Dec 18, 2025, 10:57 PM

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I don't use AI to solve these because
#1 I'm not "competitive" in this space, so solving it first isn't a goal,
#2 If I did use AI to solve the problem first people would naturally ask me to explain how I solved it, and if I just used AI without even understanding the problem it would be obvious I cheated and everyone would make fun of me and that is the WORST. THING.
#3 I'm trying to learn to be a better problem solver so I want to understand the problem and a possible solution to the problem. So I need to put in the work and struggle first. After I have done this, I can look at other people's solutions or have AI write something for me so I can compare my solution to these and increase my exposure to different methods and techniques for solving this kind of problem.
#4 AI is not particularly suited for these kinds of problems unless it's a well known problem. AI isn't good for coming up with new solutions

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But I am using AI now as a test of my AI Agent to see if it can solve this problem with the same instructions as I have. So I'm not using AI to solve the problem, I'm using the problem to test AI.

cyan sleet Dec 19, 2025, 12:46 AM

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buoyant perch Well I just have day 10 part 2 to do. And I know that I can just use a ILP solve...

||LP|| is basically "||optimize this linear function subject to these constraints||" ||ILP|| is if you only allow ||integer valued solutions||

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the latter is a lot harder

buoyant perch Dec 19, 2025, 12:49 AM

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Wow. I thought using only using ||integers|| would make it easier

cyan sleet Dec 19, 2025, 12:49 AM

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P vs NP shenanigans

cyan sleet Dec 19, 2025, 12:50 AM

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buoyant perch Wow. I thought using only using ||integers|| would make it easier

no, having things be continuous gives very nice properties

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in particular the solution is always ||somewhere on the boundary of the allowed region||

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this is no longer true if you add the constraint of ||integer solutions||

vivid osprey Dec 20, 2025, 5:14 PM

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i can make my own program to solve that problem?

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like day 1?

hidden musk Dec 20, 2025, 5:18 PM

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that is the intent, yes

vivid osprey Dec 20, 2025, 5:18 PM

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ok

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there can be many programs?

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answering the question

hidden musk Dec 20, 2025, 5:19 PM

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i don't know what you mean by that

vivid osprey Dec 20, 2025, 5:20 PM

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like programs can be different answering the same thiing

hidden musk Dec 20, 2025, 5:21 PM

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that's usually true for any problem

normal loom Dec 23, 2025, 3:53 PM

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<@&831776746206265384>

shy tulip Dec 23, 2025, 3:56 PM

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!cleanban 1435249318931206225 trolling

marsh currentBOT Dec 23, 2025, 3:56 PM

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:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied ban to @grave pasture permanently.

delicate totem Dec 24, 2025, 12:17 PM

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✩hi nya~~✩

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pithink

low condor Dec 24, 2025, 1:15 PM

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Hello 👋

stable wind Dec 24, 2025, 9:23 PM

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i need help getting the role

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advent of code can sombdy help

minor cave Dec 24, 2025, 9:30 PM

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stable wind advent of code can sombdy help

do you need help with a specific day?

stable wind Dec 24, 2025, 10:10 PM

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no in getting the role its elf

minor cave Dec 24, 2025, 10:15 PM

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stable wind no in getting the role its elf

Have you completed all days of advent of code for this year?

stable wind Dec 24, 2025, 10:16 PM

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minor cave Have you completed all days of advent of code for this year?

uh im new to this server i dnt even know whats that

minor cave Dec 24, 2025, 10:17 PM

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stable wind uh im new to this server i dnt even know whats that

You can read more about what advent of code is in #aoc-faq. The Completionist role is for people who have completed all days of this year's advent of code challenge.

cyan sleet Dec 24, 2025, 10:26 PM

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@minor cave add ABC to the list of languages for next year

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the language that predated python, written by guido

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(it's our one shot at outshining python 0.9.1)

buoyant perch Dec 24, 2025, 11:02 PM

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I'm still blown away by the solutions by the AoC "masters", and on top of that people are writing solutions in like 10 different programming languages???? <head explodes>. I have trouble enough with 3.

runic drift Dec 25, 2025, 1:19 AM

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hey guys this has probably already been asked but when is the last day to get the completionist role

hollow summit Dec 25, 2025, 1:46 AM

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runic drift hey guys this has probably already been asked but when is the last day to get th...

january

runic drift Dec 25, 2025, 1:48 AM

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hollow summit january

And if you get it how long does it last

hollow summit Dec 25, 2025, 1:49 AM

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runic drift And if you get it how long does it last

until january

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We have a role highlighting the achievement and celebrating the folks who get all days and stars! It'll be active until January.

runic drift Dec 25, 2025, 2:04 AM

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So the deadline to get it and the day it disappears are the same

minor cave Dec 25, 2025, 2:17 AM

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runic drift So the deadline to get it and the day it disappears are the same

The retiring of the role for the season also means it can't be claimed anymore (I'll turn off the automatic assignment). So yeah, but you can complete AoC to get the role at any point until then.

I'll probably turn if off mid-to-late january

ivory vigil Dec 25, 2025, 9:10 AM

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I finally completed 2018/23 😁 Only one incomplete year left!

strange zinc Dec 25, 2025, 11:24 AM

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Nice!

marsh currentBOT Dec 26, 2025, 1:42 AM

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marsh currentBOT Dec 26, 2025, 6:22 PM

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Decorators

A decorator is a function that modifies another function.

Consider the following example of a timer decorator:

>>> import time
>>> def timer(f):
...     def inner(*args, **kwargs):
...         start = time.time()
...         result = f(*args, **kwargs)
...         print('Time elapsed:', time.time() - start)
...         return result
...     return inner
...
>>> @timer
... def slow(delay=1):
...     time.sleep(delay)
...     return 'Finished!'
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>>> print(slow())
Time elapsed: 1.0011568069458008
Finished!
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Time elapsed: 3.000307321548462
Finished!

More information:

steep ibex Dec 29, 2025, 9:35 AM

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Hello

ivory vigil Dec 29, 2025, 4:35 PM

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524 stars unlocked!

cyan sleet Dec 29, 2025, 6:02 PM

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ivory vigil 524 stars unlocked!

weirdly unsatisfying number

fringe marlin Dec 29, 2025, 6:19 PM

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should i give this a go?

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Im kinda new to python

ivory vigil Dec 29, 2025, 8:34 PM

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fringe marlin should i give this a go?

Yes!

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Though you can do it in any language

bright spindle Dec 29, 2025, 9:44 PM

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fringe marlin should i give this a go?

It doesn't hurt to try, and you might learn a lot even if you end up struggling.

fringe marlin Dec 29, 2025, 11:47 PM

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ivory vigil Though you can do it in any language

Would mcfunctions be allowed?

hollow summit Dec 29, 2025, 11:51 PM

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Absolutely

drifting radish Dec 29, 2025, 11:57 PM

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fringe marlin Would mcfunctions be allowed?

pen and paper too if you like, but that is pretty unrealistic for the size of the real inputs most of the time
but generally programming/scripting language as long as you do it yourself, AI or "vibe coding" solutions aren't allowed (but can't really be enforced, but the creator begs people not to use them for AoC)

fringe marlin Dec 30, 2025, 12:01 AM

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Where can I see the problems?

ivory vigil Dec 30, 2025, 12:09 AM

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fringe marlin Where can I see the problems?

https://adventofcode.com/

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You can solve it however you want (including Google Sheets). You just need to get to the correct solution (typically an integer value).

drifting radish Dec 30, 2025, 12:23 AM

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fringe marlin Where can I see the problems?

problems go back to 2015: https://adventofcode.com/2015
all the years are listed under the heading "Events"

timber thistle Jan 1, 2026, 6:56 PM

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https://youtu.be/PGuruDhK-YA

YouTube

anthonywritescode

I solved all of advent of code 2025 in sqlite

solutions for 2025 advent of code -- also in sqlite :)

chapters:

0:00 intro
3:24 the rules
6:15 advanced techniques we'll use
28:42 day 1
38:10 day 2
46:36 day 3
1:00:55 day 4
1:14:34 day 5
1:25:38 day 6
1:40:55 day 7
1:49:11 day 8
2:02:49 day 9
2:26:33 day 10
3:22:19 day 11
3:36:40 day 12

playlist: https://www.yo...

▶ Play video

wraith geyser Jan 2, 2026, 7:14 PM

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See you next year

ripe meteor Jan 2, 2026, 9:10 PM

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You mean this year

wraith geyser Jan 5, 2026, 8:39 AM

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OOPs

tender swallow Jan 8, 2026, 12:28 PM

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damn, they've moved on from MrBeast
<@&831776746206265384>

lusty rover Jan 8, 2026, 12:30 PM

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tender swallow damn, they've moved on from MrBeast <@&831776746206265384>

https://tenor.com/view/learning-rick-and-morty-gif-24916393

Tenor

bright spindle Jan 8, 2026, 4:47 PM

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What does this have to do with advent of code?

candid berry Jan 8, 2026, 4:47 PM

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!compban 1382909805022154814

marsh currentBOT Jan 8, 2026, 4:47 PM

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:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied ban to @weak anvil until <t:1768236473:f> (4 days).

bright spindle Jan 8, 2026, 4:48 PM

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Guess that answers that

candid berry Jan 8, 2026, 4:48 PM

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Yeah, it's the malware du jour

minor cave Jan 12, 2026, 9:39 PM

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!compban 665910846077272104

marsh currentBOT Jan 12, 2026, 9:39 PM

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:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied ban to @nova radish until <t:1768599556:f> (4 days).

uncut mason Jan 15, 2026, 6:51 AM

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I've made my own version of challenges inspired by AoC, and I'm looking for people to test them before I release. To check if I get the same answer as other folks, and to make sure the instructions are clear.
Anyone interested in helping me out and hopefully enjoying some puzzles in the process? ❤️
(Ps mods said I could ask. They approved the site)

tender swallow Jan 15, 2026, 7:47 AM

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uncut mason I've made my own version of challenges inspired by AoC, and I'm looking for peop...

sure!
send me the puzzles and I'll try them if I'm free

feral hazel Jan 15, 2026, 8:44 AM

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oo yeah i'd also like to take a look

uncut mason Jan 15, 2026, 10:28 AM

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I really appreciate the interest 😊
The more people who give it a look-through, the more confident I can feel releasing it.

hidden musk Jan 15, 2026, 5:26 PM

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where will you be releasing them?

cyan sleet Jan 15, 2026, 5:33 PM

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uncut mason I've made my own version of challenges inspired by AoC, and I'm looking for peop...

I could help check too

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(I will totally not try pushing for harder input to require people to implement something decent)

uncut mason Jan 15, 2026, 11:18 PM

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hidden musk where will you be releasing them?

Online. It's hosted on a website that belongs to a programming community I'm part of.

vernal coyote Jan 16, 2026, 3:37 AM

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uncut mason I've made my own version of challenges inspired by AoC, and I'm looking for peop...

Can I try too ?
I am not really that good yet
But imma try if I could contribute anything

dull herald Jan 18, 2026, 9:32 PM

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uncut mason I've made my own version of challenges inspired by AoC, and I'm looking for peop...

I would love to try these out when I'm free if you're still looking for feedback!

viral jolt Jan 19, 2026, 4:12 AM

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myDict = {
    "balance": 500,
    "name": "N/A",
    "age": 23
}

myDictAgain = {
    "balance": 300,
    "name": "johnathan",
    "age": 23
}

myDict |= myDictAgain

print(myDict)

uncut mason Jan 19, 2026, 5:16 AM

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dull herald I would love to try these out when I'm free if you're still looking for feedback...

Sure but I'm not able to dm you. Can you dm me?

dull herald Jan 19, 2026, 3:22 PM

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uncut mason Sure but I'm not able to dm you. Can you dm me?

Looks like I can’t dm you either lol, sent you a fr

shy tulip Jan 21, 2026, 2:40 PM

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!COMPBAN 796466843014398014

marsh currentBOT Jan 21, 2026, 2:40 PM

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:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied ban to @queen zinc until <t:1769352027:f> (4 days).

minor cave Jan 22, 2026, 1:40 AM

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!compban 843398623856558092

marsh currentBOT Jan 22, 2026, 1:40 AM

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:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied ban to @bright frost until <t:1769391656:f> (4 days).

cyan sleet Jan 22, 2026, 11:51 AM

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<@&831776746206265384>

shy tulip Jan 22, 2026, 11:51 AM

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!compban 1236967268102176891

marsh currentBOT Jan 22, 2026, 11:51 AM

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:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied ban to @silver hazel until <t:1769428302:f> (4 days).

dusk whale Jan 26, 2026, 3:32 PM

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yo guys why are we banning so much guys?

worthy horizon Jan 26, 2026, 8:20 PM

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dusk whale yo guys why are we banning so much guys?

since advent of code ended, there's not much to talk about, so most messages here are from spam bots

low condor Jan 26, 2026, 8:50 PM

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probably time to hide this channel again

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this time last month xmas had already passed

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gotta call time on xmas eventually

lusty rover Jan 26, 2026, 9:45 PM

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low condor gotta call time on xmas eventually

I say I don’t

low condor Jan 26, 2026, 9:46 PM

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There was once a time I had to help remove tinsel from a desk

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In March

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Yes, you gotta

magic oxide Jan 27, 2026, 6:01 AM

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i saw a Christmas tree yesterday so

cyan sleet Jan 27, 2026, 9:24 AM

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magic oxide i saw a Christmas tree yesterday so

a tad early for christmas

worthy horizon Jan 27, 2026, 9:26 AM

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the wonders of modular arithmetic

valid comet Jan 28, 2026, 4:56 PM

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When is christmas

cyan sleet Jan 28, 2026, 9:00 PM

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when you least expect it

visual idol Jan 29, 2026, 2:47 PM

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@minor cave Hello I finished the aoc 2025 I'd like to have role highlighting the achievement, I used the command yesterday &aoc link Ever Vino to link my account, but the the role was not assigned yet. Is it something missing?

minor cave Jan 29, 2026, 5:08 PM

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Yeah I suspect I know the issue. I can get this fixed in the next few hours

visual idol Jan 29, 2026, 5:31 PM

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Thank you so much

minor cave Feb 1, 2026, 3:38 PM

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visual idol Thank you so much

Have you joined one of our leaderboards?

visual idol Feb 1, 2026, 4:44 PM

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minor cave Have you joined one of our leaderboards?

No, I did not joined to the leaderboards. how Can I join?

minor cave Feb 1, 2026, 4:45 PM

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visual idol No, I did not joined to the leaderboards. how Can I join?

Slash command! /aoc join

visual idol Feb 1, 2026, 4:47 PM

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minor cave Slash command! /aoc join

I tried now I got the message "The Python Discord leaderboard for 2026 is not yet available!"

minor cave Feb 1, 2026, 7:52 PM

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visual idol I tried now I got the message "The Python Discord leaderboard for 2026 is not ye...

You have your role now~

visual idol Feb 1, 2026, 8:31 PM

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minor cave You have your role now~

Thank you, appreciate it

left oasis Feb 2, 2026, 2:24 PM

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Hello everyone glad to be here

forest meteor Feb 2, 2026, 10:33 PM

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hello everyone

elder cedar Feb 4, 2026, 3:22 PM

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Hi

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Anyone doing edexcel IGCSE here?

west epoch Feb 6, 2026, 1:01 AM

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hi

strong swan Feb 7, 2026, 12:27 PM

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Hi!

Anyone interested in doing previous years of advent of code together? I started doing 2015 today

plucky edge Feb 11, 2026, 7:24 AM

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strong swan Hi! Anyone interested in doing previous years of advent of code together? I sta...

me

strong swan Feb 11, 2026, 8:11 AM

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plucky edge me

Cool! I solved one problem a day since then, for the most part. I solved up to day 3 and plan to do 4 and 5 today (I didn’t solve one yesterday)

strong swan Feb 11, 2026, 8:12 AM

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plucky edge me

You’re welcome to catch up. I can also wait for you to catch up if you want me to. I have my solutions on https://github.com/osalbahr but I can just post them here if you prefer that

GitHub

osalbahr - Overview

Computer Science from North Carolina State University - osalbahr

plucky edge Feb 11, 2026, 8:12 AM

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ok

karmic jungle Feb 19, 2026, 5:19 AM

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&aoc link aocleaderboardnamegoeshere

shut trellisBOT Feb 19, 2026, 5:19 AM

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karmic jungle &aoc link aocleaderboardnamegoeshere

You have linked your Discord ID to aocleaderboardnamegoeshere.

drifting radish Feb 19, 2026, 5:19 PM

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this is not the place to post in if it isn't about "Advent of Code"
and we will not knowingly help you in doing any academic dishonesty

thin blaze Mar 1, 2026, 9:17 PM

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Losing the role again. 😢

ionic shuttle Mar 5, 2026, 3:15 AM

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can someone code for me in the roblox game were making\

quaint comet Mar 6, 2026, 6:32 PM

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ionic shuttle can someone code for me in the roblox game were making\

Usually asking someone to code FOR YOU instead of with you is not wanted. Also, this seems to be the wrong channel, i would try to go to #ot0-psvm’s-eternal-disapproval (or other ot's) if i were you

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mossy stream Nov 20, 2021, 7:40 PM

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Advent of code hype!

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ornate dragon Nov 20, 2021, 7:45 PM

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yeaaaa aoc time!

bleak sable Nov 20, 2021, 7:45 PM

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it will be my first time participating~

woven sable Nov 20, 2021, 7:45 PM

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Same!

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I can't wait

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crystal shard Nov 20, 2021, 7:52 PM

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placid lake Nov 20, 2021, 7:52 PM

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here we gooo

crystal shard Nov 20, 2021, 7:53 PM

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This is gonna be fun

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Its my first time being skilled enough to join something like this

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minor cave Nov 20, 2021, 7:54 PM

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We're working on the join codes >_> They'll be working shortly-ish

severe iron Nov 20, 2021, 7:55 PM

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What are join codes?

placid lake Nov 20, 2021, 7:57 PM

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python discord is going to have our own private leaderboard you can join!

severe iron Nov 20, 2021, 7:57 PM

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Ooh nice

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sharp panther Nov 20, 2021, 7:58 PM

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oh wait wrong channel oops

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I'd love to use python for this event but I'm probably gonna use JS as I really need to learn how to use that properly

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minor cave Nov 20, 2021, 8:04 PM

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Okay! It works now!!

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frosty bronze Nov 20, 2021, 8:22 PM

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Wait @minor cave I'm a bit confused. Why are people running bot commands in here and #aoc-bot-commands ? Shouldn't there be just one channel for this?

minor cave Nov 20, 2021, 8:23 PM

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I have the aoc bot commands channel with the AoC stuff because people will be running the leaderboard commands and I like it to be close so people don't need to hop back and forth from the main aoc channel and the bot commands channel

frosty bronze Nov 20, 2021, 8:23 PM

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Ah I see

minor cave Nov 20, 2021, 8:23 PM

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Only the subscribe and join commands should work, leaderboard will be blocked

frosty bronze Nov 20, 2021, 8:23 PM

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In this channel?

minor cave Nov 20, 2021, 8:23 PM

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mhm

signal grotto Nov 20, 2021, 8:26 PM

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Wooo aoc

marble schooner Nov 20, 2021, 8:37 PM

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so just to confirm @minor cave a new leaderboard will be created for staff eventually?

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I was a little confused when it said I already joined the leaderboard pithink

minor cave Nov 20, 2021, 8:38 PM

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marble schooner so just to confirm <@!212644551926611969> a *new* leaderboard will be created fo...

Staff leaderboard is the same as last year. I dropped the code in staff chats earlier this month. I'll double check you're on it

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minor cave Nov 20, 2021, 8:39 PM

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Mhm!

marble schooner Nov 20, 2021, 8:39 PM

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ah that explains it :)

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hidden copperBOT Nov 20, 2021, 8:40 PM

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Command: adventofcode

All of the Advent of Code commands.

Source Code

Go to GitHub

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sleek cave Nov 20, 2021, 9:46 PM

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third role acquired

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first time participating in aoc, this looks super fun

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sleek cave first time participating in aoc, this looks super fun

yeah i can't wait tbh

frosty bronze Nov 20, 2021, 10:14 PM

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I agree this sounds really fun, but I don't know if I'll have a lot of time to participate 😦

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sharp panther Nov 21, 2021, 2:42 AM

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AoC hasn't started yet, see the latest #announcements

steady berry Nov 21, 2021, 2:42 AM

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sharp panther AoC hasn't started yet, see the latest <#354619224620138496>

ooo

minor cave Nov 21, 2021, 2:43 AM

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just getting the channel and everything set up before the holidays~

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sleek cave first time participating in aoc, this looks super fun

same 👀

sleek cave Nov 21, 2021, 3:30 AM

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k now what the shit

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@peak dock absolute congrats on being helper mate

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we're three now

peak dock Nov 21, 2021, 3:31 AM

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ive been helper for a while 👀

sleek cave Nov 21, 2021, 3:31 AM

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lmfao i mean mod

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i remember when all the cats' names were still white lol

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ggs everyone

snow nebula Nov 21, 2021, 7:16 AM

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😭 final year exams this december
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cant wait to see arknave's code art though ~~if he is participating this year that is~~

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winged trellis Nov 21, 2021, 11:11 AM

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Yes.. finally

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steady berry Nov 21, 2021, 11:52 AM

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shame that i got exams in december

hollow wharf Nov 21, 2021, 12:26 PM

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hollow wharf Nov 21, 2021, 12:39 PM

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thank you

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snow nebula cant wait to see arknave's code art though ~~if he is participating this year th...

yesss, that was super cool last year

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Hello

fathom harbor Nov 21, 2021, 4:56 PM

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sounds fun

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sullen ruin Nov 21, 2021, 8:47 PM

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.aoc leaderboard

hidden copperBOT Nov 21, 2021, 8:47 PM

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I'll share mine if anyone's interested: https://github.com/Meltz014/AdventOfCode

GitHub

GitHub - Meltz014/AdventOfCode

Contribute to Meltz014/AdventOfCode development by creating an account on GitHub.

hidden copperBOT Nov 21, 2021, 10:38 PM

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Anyone else warming up with some prior years?

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tacit moss Anyone else warming up with some prior years?

I did some of that a couple of months back 🙂 Got through parts of '19 and '18

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Time to write more shitty code this year

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shadow stag Nov 25, 2021, 1:30 PM

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I’m really excited, don’t know why

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mossy stream Nov 25, 2021, 3:21 PM

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Hey @minor cave, what do you think about having the bot update the channel description every day to add "Next challenge in $timestamp!"?

potent pumice Nov 25, 2021, 3:22 PM

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mossy stream Hey <@!212644551926611969>, what do you think about having the bot update the ch...

also what about automating #advent-of-code-spoilers-archive 😛

mossy stream Nov 25, 2021, 3:23 PM

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potent pumice Nov 25, 2021, 3:24 PM

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I can see admins having to unlock it be error prone too

mossy stream Nov 25, 2021, 3:24 PM

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I think Kat will handle the locking and unlocking

potent pumice Nov 25, 2021, 3:24 PM

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so her role is granted permissions for that channel? 0.o

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I remember her complaining about not having those perms anymore

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I can't move channels and some role permissions I don't have access to. But I'm going to manually lock/unlock the channel because we can't really automatically check when the global leaderboard fills up without stressing the apc api.

mossy stream Nov 25, 2021, 3:44 PM

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so what do you think about the suggestion?

minor cave Nov 25, 2021, 3:47 PM

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Sure? I don't think it matters too much because we have the countdown command. Someone would have to PR it and review it

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hidden copperBOT Nov 25, 2021, 4:17 PM

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The Advent of Code event is not currently running. The next event will start in 5 days.

potent pumice Nov 25, 2021, 4:17 PM

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mossy stream does the countdown command uses fancy timestamps?

no

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Who’s excited?? Starting in just a few days! 🙋‍♂️

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**Can also use:** `aoc`

*All of the Advent of Code commands.*

**Subcommands:**
**`about `**
*Learn about Advent of Code*
**`countdown `**
*Return time left until next day*
**`join `**
*Learn how to join the leaderboard (via DM)*
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what does aoc command

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whole hedge what does aoc command

.aoc join point direct message from the bot with instructions on how to join the Python discord server’s private leaderboard for this year’s adventofcode
More infos in the faq #911684406605930496

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fervent coral Nov 27, 2021, 1:27 PM

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whole hedge ok?

You can try all the commands out in the channel #aoc-bot-commands 🙂

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**Can also use:** `aoc`

*All of the Advent of Code commands.*

**Subcommands:**
**`about `**
*Learn about Advent of Code*
**`countdown `**
*Return time left until next day*
**`join `**
*Learn how to join the leaderboard (via DM)*
**`subscribe `**
*Notifications for new days*

hollow wharf Nov 28, 2021, 2:55 PM

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**Can also use:** `aoc`

*All of the Advent of Code commands.*

**Subcommands:**
**`about `**
*Learn about Advent of Code*
**`countdown `**
*Return time left until next day*
**`join `**
*Learn how to join the leaderboard (via DM)*
**`subscribe `**
*Notifications for new days*

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Advent of Code

https://adventofcode.com/2021

What is Advent of Code?

Advent of Code (AoC) is a series of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels, run every year during the month of December.

They are self-contained and are just as appropriate for an expert who wants to stay sharp as they are for a beginner who is just learning to code. Each puzzle calls upon different skills and has two parts that build on a theme.

How do I sign up?

Sign up with one of these services:

Auth Services

GitHub
Google
Twitter
Reddit

How does scoring work?

For the global leaderboard, the first person to get a star first gets 100 points, the second person gets 99 points, and so on down to 1 point at 100th place.

For private leaderboards, the first person to get a star gets N points, where N is the number of people on the leaderboard. The second person to get the star gets N-1 points and so on and so forth.

Join our private leaderboard!

Come join the Python Discord private leaderboard and compete against other people in the community! Get the join code using .aoc join and visit the private leaderboard page to join our leaderboard.

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rapid ether !code

#bot-commands

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Is it possible to play without joining?

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Hmm, <@&831776746206265384> I don't think this is appropriate

frosty bronze Nov 28, 2021, 5:47 PM

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tiny sonnet Is it possible to play without joining?

Don't think so

nocturne blaze Nov 28, 2021, 5:47 PM

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What's so wrong LMAO

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**Can also use:** `aoc`

*All of the Advent of Code commands.*

**Subcommands:**
**`about `**
*Learn about Advent of Code*
**`countdown `**
*Return time left until next day*
**`join `**
*Learn how to join the leaderboard (via DM)*
**`subscribe `**
*Notifications for new days*

minor cave Nov 28, 2021, 5:48 PM

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tiny sonnet Is it possible to play without joining?

you have to make an account of advent of code to get access to the puzzles, but there's no requirement to join a leaderboard or anything

jade atlas Nov 28, 2021, 5:49 PM

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jade atlas Nov 28, 2021, 5:50 PM

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I never completed aoc.. Hope to finish all the puzzles this time

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any python packages to pull the data of each part of each challenge real fast?

frosty bronze Nov 28, 2021, 6:08 PM

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Huh?

tiny sonnet Nov 28, 2021, 6:39 PM

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minor cave you have to make an account of advent of code to get access to the puzzles, but ...

I'm thinking more of into the puzzles, even if delayed to access them.

minor cave Nov 28, 2021, 6:40 PM

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To access the puzzles will require going to the advent of code website and viewing it there

hidden musk Nov 28, 2021, 9:46 PM

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👀

nimble furnace Nov 28, 2021, 9:48 PM

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.aoc subscribe

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can't wait!

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maybe i will finish the 2020 problems that i didn't get to last year

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gotta prepare 👀

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I’m hyped about AoC

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Just gotta prepare my scripts

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I wonder if this is the year I'll actually finish the AoC

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doubts... but \😩 perhaps I'll try

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:09 PM

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As long as you’re having fun

sinful pawn Nov 28, 2021, 10:09 PM

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I remember being incredibly frustrated, maybe I'll know enough this time, though

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:10 PM

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Yeah, some of the later ones are difficult

sinful pawn Nov 28, 2021, 10:10 PM

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meanwhile, I was stuck on day like... 9 or 12 or something

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:11 PM

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I think those count as “later days” lol

pliant comet Nov 28, 2021, 10:11 PM

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the sea monster problem last year 😳

sinful pawn Nov 28, 2021, 10:11 PM

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nvm, it was day 10

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:11 PM

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I think I stopped some day close to that as well last year

sinful pawn Nov 28, 2021, 10:11 PM

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https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/10

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:12 PM

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One fact check later: I just did 7 days last year lol

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But it was fun

sinful pawn Nov 28, 2021, 10:13 PM

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I remember doing the first couple in Nim

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molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:13 PM

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What’s Nim?

sinful pawn Nov 28, 2021, 10:13 PM

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https://nim-lang.org/

Nim Programming Language

The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.

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I dunno how to explain it, it's fairly Pythonic and has some interesting things that I quite liked

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:15 PM

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sinful pawn https://nim-lang.org/

I read the docs now. Looks kinda cool

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I like parts of their branding

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I might do that now, actually

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:17 PM

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Nice

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You know, I've looked up Nim before, but I never bothered to actually get into it

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:18 PM

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@worthy horizon @rapid wolf we should totally do AoC in Gurklang lol

worthy horizon Nov 28, 2021, 10:18 PM

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😔

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gloomy terrace You know, I've looked up Nim before, but I never bothered to actually get into i...

It's not super easy to get into, namely because most editors don't have terribly great support for it

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:18 PM

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Hey, it’s a great idea

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sinful pawn It's not super *easy* to get into, namely because most editors don't have terrib...

Conveniently I am insane enough to already be using (Doom) Emacs which already has support, so I should be good there

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I was going to do smalltalk

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Yeah, I was thinking about setting up emacs or neovim just for Nim

molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:20 PM

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I think we’d need a few more string operations

sinful pawn Nov 28, 2021, 10:20 PM

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sinful pawn Yeah, I was thinking about setting up emacs or neovim just for Nim

Well if you ever want to go down the pit of Emacs, Doom Emacs is great: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

GitHub

GitHub - hlissner/doom-emacs: An Emacs framework for the stubborn m...

An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker - GitHub - hlissner/doom-emacs: An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker

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so we can just handroll it linked lists of chars haskell style

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I guess that might work too

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Built-in EVIL support so you can use familiar Vim keybindings and commands, a lot of abstracted-away setup means you shouldn't need to do much to have a functional environment (at least on the Emacs side),

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It's neat

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Didn't we make a stream API at some point

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This? https://github.com/gurkult/py-gurklang/blob/master/gurklang/stdlib_modules/streams.py

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I might implement a few string operations for AoC. At least personally, they’d be quite useful, and AoC often requires a bit of string manipulation

hidden musk Nov 28, 2021, 10:26 PM

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bruh last year was literally advent of regex 😔

woven solar Nov 28, 2021, 10:31 PM

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which year was advent of cellular automata again?

hidden musk Nov 28, 2021, 10:31 PM

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last year

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molten fulcrum Nov 28, 2021, 10:50 PM

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@rapid wolf just setup gurklang again. This is kind of nostalgic

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woo actual discussion now rather than just commands

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I'm so tempted to make a solution in Python, and then golf the code in Rust to make it look like the topic of the challenge

sinful pawn Nov 28, 2021, 11:01 PM

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Hi :D

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I'm gonna try and make some ASCII art in my code this year

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C is best for ASCII art tho

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wait advent of code is out?

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narrow crown wait advent of code is out?

Starting 12/1!

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yo i might try this

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ive only done the first 3-4 before losing patience

signal grotto Nov 29, 2021, 5:28 AM

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Happens to everyone tbh

hollow wharf Nov 29, 2021, 5:31 AM

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does anyone do turtle/

warm grail Nov 29, 2021, 5:33 AM

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signal grotto Starting 12/1!

*1/12

signal grotto Nov 29, 2021, 5:35 AM

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warm grail *1/12

*12/1 😠

digital ember Nov 29, 2021, 5:38 AM

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1st december 🙃

hollow wharf Nov 29, 2021, 5:47 AM

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digital ember 1st december 🙃

29*

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Tied for first place, my best result yet.

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9pm PT

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Pacific Time

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😉

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I use PT, as PST is only part of the year, and PDT is only part of the year, PT is year round.

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Pacific Time, regardless of whether daylight savings is in place.

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no, it's PST during pst, and it's pdt during pdt.

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I just use PT so I don't have to keep track of which we're in. PT is always correct.

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Very little snow in the Seattle area, reminds me of UK. But less overcast.

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Yeah, t-shirt weather here today.

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Need some advice, I'm going to post on reddit about AOC and wondering what to tell the people in the subreddit I mod about it. Any advice/pointers would be a good.

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gonna have time disadvantage 😔

void ocean Nov 29, 2021, 10:43 AM

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Gonna have time advantage! Starts at 12 noon for me lol

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starts at 10:30am for me, but school 😔

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6 am for me

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midnight 😔

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i stayed up every night last year :/

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hidden musk Nov 29, 2021, 11:59 AM

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yep

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long time no see old friend

pliant comet Nov 29, 2021, 12:03 PM

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i stayed up for the first couple days and then quit 😔😔

signal grotto Nov 29, 2021, 1:03 PM

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placid lake i stayed up every night last year :/

Me too and I'll do it again 🤣

tulip elbow Nov 29, 2021, 1:08 PM

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PartyParrot

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the timezones are not very nice for me. It's midnight EST which is like 6 or 7AM for me

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aka i'll be very much asleep at that time

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RIP europeans who have school/jobs, pretty much

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at some point it probably doesn't matter that much because most people don't finish all of the problems

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I could wake up at 6 and have about an hour until I need to get ready for class. Maybe AoC can fix my sleep schedule lolol

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I normally get up at 6, but I don't have time at all to do any coding xD

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I guess I could do aoc during school ;)

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I liked the scoring algorithm 😄

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partydinosaur

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You can take a look at the faq channel here, those were our most asked questions and for our community it does a decent job of answering it

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molten fulcrum It’s 6 am for me

5am where I am, so a bit of an adjustment for me 😄

pliant comet Nov 29, 2021, 2:43 PM

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north silo 5am where I am, so a bit of an adjustment for me 😄

if your sleep schedule is still like what it was last year, don't you normally stay awake until like 7:00am anyways 😳

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pliant comet if your sleep schedule is still like what it was last year, don't you normally s...

That was the case until yesterday 😄 I decided it's probably healthier to get up early for it than stay up late.

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wowww

north silo Nov 29, 2021, 2:49 PM

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I'll probably only get up early for the first few days.

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But who knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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10 alarms

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midnight EST
6am for most of Europe
I cannot wake up even with several alarms...

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i wake up at 6 anyways lol, midnight sucks because if you don't stay up you're probably not going to be awake at least like 6-7 hours after the challenge releases, but if it releases at 6 you'll probably be awake 0 to 4 hours after

tawny peak Nov 29, 2021, 5:25 PM

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.aoc about

hidden copperBOT Nov 29, 2021, 5:25 PM

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Advent of Code

https://adventofcode.com/2021

What is Advent of Code?

Advent of Code (AoC) is a series of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels, run every year during the month of December.

They are self-contained and are just as appropriate for an expert who wants to stay sharp as they are for a beginner who is just learning to code. Each puzzle calls upon different skills and has two parts that build on a theme.

How do I sign up?

Sign up with one of these services:

Auth Services

GitHub
Google
Twitter
Reddit

How does scoring work?

For the global leaderboard, the first person to get a star first gets 100 points, the second person gets 99 points, and so on down to 1 point at 100th place.

For private leaderboards, the first person to get a star gets N points, where N is the number of people on the leaderboard. The second person to get the star gets N-1 points and so on and so forth.

Join our private leaderboard!

Come join the Python Discord private leaderboard and compete against other people in the community! Get the join code using .aoc join and visit the private leaderboard page to join our leaderboard.

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molten fulcrum Nov 29, 2021, 6:13 PM

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#aoc-bot-commands lemon_long

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the challenges open at 3 am in my timezone

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the funny time

tulip elbow Nov 29, 2021, 6:27 PM

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damce

bleak sable Nov 29, 2021, 6:50 PM

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somebody else doing old AOC for fun? 😄

static bloom Nov 29, 2021, 8:35 PM

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sharp panther Nov 29, 2021, 9:39 PM

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bleak sable somebody else doing old AOC for fun? 😄

me!

bleak sable Nov 29, 2021, 10:22 PM

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sharp panther me!

I did a bruteforce (recursive simulation) for d7 2015 and my cmd froze XD
and then tried playing manually between trash pulls during raid. and I noticed the names are actually assigned in order (but for a), so I can just sort and assign values instead of assigning functions and then doing recursion XDDD

modest hull Nov 29, 2021, 10:27 PM

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bleak sable I did a bruteforce (recursive simulation) for d7 2015 and my cmd froze XD and th...

ooh that problem was so fun !

hollow wharf Nov 29, 2021, 11:32 PM

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is it coming out in 28min

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when is it

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thats bad

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il need to wake up 5am

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on a non weekend day

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fuck

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some bastards wake up perfect time on weekends

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ready to go

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tired grogy me in the morning solves a coding puzzle

signal grotto Nov 29, 2021, 11:59 PM

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To clarify, it's midnight EST on December 1st

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Your local time for the first release can be found here: https://discord.gg/python?event=913513068703658055

potent pumice Nov 30, 2021, 12:01 AM

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signal grotto Your local time for the first release can be found here: https://discord.gg/pyth...

smh use the special feature rather than that feature

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potent pumice smh use the special feature rather than that feature

hm? what are you talking about?

potent pumice Nov 30, 2021, 12:03 AM

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<t:1638230616>

signal grotto Nov 30, 2021, 12:03 AM

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Events are special too 🤷‍♂️

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Plus, you can subscribe for an alert when it happens

potent pumice Nov 30, 2021, 12:04 AM

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its crashing my mobile app rn

signal grotto Nov 30, 2021, 12:04 AM

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Update the app then

potent pumice Nov 30, 2021, 12:04 AM

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i'm on canary 👀

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they shouldn't have released them yet lol

signal grotto Nov 30, 2021, 12:04 AM

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Well that's gonna cause issues for sure, that's the point of canary 😂

minor cave Nov 30, 2021, 12:05 AM

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if you're expecting something stable then use the stable version. But the event is a bit easier because it's a quick link instead of trying to figure out the epoch for it.

signal grotto Nov 30, 2021, 12:05 AM

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(I'd recommend reporting the crash to Discord if you can reproduce it)

sharp panther Nov 30, 2021, 12:05 AM

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ftr, works fine for me on Android Alpha

potent pumice Nov 30, 2021, 12:05 AM

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signal grotto (I'd recommend reporting the crash to Discord if you can reproduce it)

(if dtesters was open i would)

signal grotto Nov 30, 2021, 12:05 AM

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potent pumice (if dtesters was open i would)

You can report it online at https://dis.gd/support, just select bug reporting

brazen cape Nov 30, 2021, 2:48 AM

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.aoc join

tight dune Nov 30, 2021, 3:18 AM

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gonna start tomorrow

woven oriole Nov 30, 2021, 3:56 AM

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ye

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lesgo

sinful agate Nov 30, 2021, 4:28 AM

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digital ember starts at 10:30am for me, but school 😔

Lol

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I have exams so f

earnest forge Nov 30, 2021, 5:26 AM

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Good luck everyone

compact hazel Nov 30, 2021, 5:35 AM

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.aoc join

tight dune Nov 30, 2021, 5:42 AM

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digital ember starts at 10:30am for me, but school 😔

i am going to skip classes (as usual) to get it

compact hazel Nov 30, 2021, 5:49 AM

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nice

velvet stag Nov 30, 2021, 6:40 AM

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oh it's later now

ruby brook Nov 30, 2021, 7:48 AM

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.aoc join

velvet stag Nov 30, 2021, 7:52 AM

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it's the previous year

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no way it works for this one

broken swallow Nov 30, 2021, 10:52 AM

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.aoc join

mystic holly Nov 30, 2021, 11:29 AM

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.aoc join

sharp apex Nov 30, 2021, 12:20 PM

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If humans were unable to bend their arms, street fights would turn into jousting matches.

pure saddle Nov 30, 2021, 12:26 PM

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man aoc starts when i have school lemon_sentimental

naive python Nov 30, 2021, 12:26 PM

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Oooh, it's this time of the year again

pure saddle Nov 30, 2021, 12:39 PM

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time for my 30 wpm to shine brainmon

digital ember Nov 30, 2021, 12:41 PM

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it's not really about typing fast, it's about understanding the problem fast IMO - the problems aren't easy to understand quickly so the typing speed doesn't matter that much

iron shadow Nov 30, 2021, 12:59 PM

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.aoc count

hidden copperBOT Nov 30, 2021, 12:59 PM

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The Advent of Code event is not currently running. The next event will start <t:1638334800:R>.

iron shadow Nov 30, 2021, 12:59 PM

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It's localised now 😄

placid lake Nov 30, 2021, 12:59 PM

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here we go again

iron shadow Nov 30, 2021, 1:00 PM

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haha

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no chance I'm staying up until 5am lol

coarse wagon Nov 30, 2021, 1:01 PM

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Wake up at 5am?

placid lake Nov 30, 2021, 1:01 PM

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not sure if i'll be able to stay up past midnight every night again this year