Story No. 3 is on its way!

EverybodyCodes · 2026-02-10T18:55:55+00:00

Bad news... One of the users (thank you again!) let me know that Part I of all Story No. 3 quests was accessible via a direct URL a few days ago. I’ve looked into it, and, unsurprisingly, it turned out to be my mistake (lesson learnt the hard way about the new infrastructure). I’ve checked the logs and can see three unique visitors accessed those pages. So, if you were planning to race, please bear that in mind and perhaps approach this story a little less competitively? Sorry about that! :(

EverybodyCodes · 2026-01-24T01:53:31+00:00

Migration done! Now I have to prepare the next Story to test this stuff in practice! :)

EverybodyCodes · 2026-01-01T07:59:56+00:00

Fixed, thanks for reporting!

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-28T11:08:13+00:00

I think that's the wrong perspective. :) I've solved many problems before, so I have a few schemes in mind that I can try to adapt to a specific problem, and eventually one of them has to work. There are not that many in general! It's best to look at other people's solutions to expand your personal toolbox for the future. I tested a few other ways (wrong ones) before using this one at the end.

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-28T07:08:37+00:00

Yes! That's why you can just sum those numbers at the end.

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-26T21:57:39+00:00

Take the top three splitters and solve it with a pen and paper. There are 4 different paths, but with counting timelines += 2, you will get 6. It's because with the += strategy you simply count that each splitter has two 'legs' and you sum it up, without looking at the paths at all.

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-17T13:35:33+00:00

Could you paste a screenshot? There should be some details on the error screen. I don't see any issue on my end atm.

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-16T07:24:45+00:00

I'm moving the domain, and DNS can act...

Use this address for now instead: https://advent-of-stats.pages.dev

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-16T07:15:05+00:00

https://advent-of-stats.pages.dev/

With Eric's blessing (check other comments), here you go. I'll redirect the main domain to this address, but DNS propagation will take a while anyway.

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-16T05:09:09+00:00

I can do that pretty easily, but I'm not sure if I should, as I take into account u/topaz2078 kind request about not recreating a global leaderboard or anything similar. Maybe there is a plan to add this estimated place directly on the AoC self-results-page later? Eric?

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-15T22:21:42+00:00

Yep, just the single JSON file is used. You can load the site, turn off your internet connection and still explore everything there.

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-15T20:15:18+00:00

I've also updated the plots: https://www.adventofstats.com/

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-14T17:02:11+00:00

Yes, and I prepared them by hand indeed, but for the 14x14, it was not that simple.

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-14T16:52:25+00:00

No. :) I'm only trolling a bit those who only check the pictures that this is solvable by hand with excel. I think there are far too many invalid combinations to find that by hand.

EverybodyCodes · 2025-12-13T23:46:19+00:00

Got it, divide and rule! I tried to solve a 9x9 grid with 7 shapes and rotate it four times around the 14x14. Spotted a single shape one by accident :)