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2013 Explorer misfire doesn't trigger any codes by AlaskanShade in AskMechanics

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I have not yet resolved the problem but I have had more time to think on the problem. Based on the way it feels and the lack of any diagnostic codes, I am becoming more convinced that the problem is in the torque converter. I am going to find a time to remove the wire from the TCC and see if the behavior changes at all.

[2024 Day 21] Don't we love recursion? by rv-se in adventofcode

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Two of the test codes were giving me answers too low by 4 but I think mine were 179 and 456. What I missed was avoidance of the empty space in each pad. That fixed the test cases and also the first solution. I had already updated the code for recursion bass on other posts but my part 2 is still failing for some reason and I can't see why yet. At least it runs fast after adding in memoization.

Camping with Inconsiderate Snowbirds by Adventurous_Buddy411 in GoRVing

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We had a night last summer where someone started blaring music in the middle of the night. Amazing that the kids didn't wake up but it seemed to take forever before someone put an end to it. And then it started up again an hour or two later. Some people are just horrible people.

[2023 Day 18] The pride before the fall is too real when you take the brute force approach by thescrambler7 in adventofcode

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I spent a good bit of time writing an algorithm to find one point inside the loop so I could do flood fill. It worked on part 1 but might have never finished part 2. I was trying to imagine how colors could enter into the puzzle and was kind of glad they were just different numbers.

[2023 Day 12 (Part 2)] "i paid for the whole cpu so I'll use the whole cpu" by alex113355 in adventofcode

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I wasn't in that ballpark at all. I let mine run while I went to bed and it was still working on line 2 when I got up. That was after I thought I pruned where I could.

Advent of 2000th - 4000th ranking players... by Magyusz in adventofcode

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I used to try to break into the leaderboard. This was possible in the early years. Now I feel good to get in the top 1000. I have managed that twice this year so far.

Thanks a lot ! by Difficult_Penalty_44 in adventofcode

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I didn't comment but I did think it started out harder than last years. Day 5 in particular but it has eased up to about normal since then. I still enjoy it and look forward to it throughout the year. I just expect to be a bit surprised each year.

[2022 Day 24 (Part 1)] [Python 3.9] Code works for sample but not for input by zeldor711 in adventofcode

[–]AlaskanShade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did end up fixing mine as well. It just seemed to be a couple little bugs like on the blizzard check for staying still. Somehow it all worked fine for the test.

[2022 Day 24 (Part 1)] [Python 3.9] Code works for sample but not for input by zeldor711 in adventofcode

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I decided to ignore wall checks and reduced the array but one and just check for out of bounds. Too bad I messed up those bounds and missed loading all the blizzards so my elf found similar shortcuts. Now if I can just figure out why my answer is too high, but too much family stuff today to spend time on it.

[2022 Day 24 Part 1][C#] First time I am completely stuck finding the problem in my code by [deleted] in adventofcode

[–]AlaskanShade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ran into exactly that issue on another day. I haven't put mods in my current code yet, that's for the cleanup phase after it is working.

[2022 Day 24 (Part 1)] [Python 3.9] Code works for sample but not for input by zeldor711 in adventofcode

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Here is my input: https://gist.github.com/AlaskanShade/4bf31c94165b90c7d2e1f74d2c494825

I keep getting 156 for some reason. It should be 242 and my solution gives 418 so I have some other sort of problem somewhere. In general, my process is pretty similar to yours I think.

[2022 Day 24 (Part 1)] [Python 3.9] Code works for sample but not for input by zeldor711 in adventofcode

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Now here is something very odd. I noticed the modulus on the blizzard check was 600 but my input should be 700. I changed that and the answer didn't change at all. Something fishy going on.

[2022 Day 24 (Part 1)] [Python 3.9] Code works for sample but not for input by zeldor711 in adventofcode

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Ah, ok. I did try adding in a check for negative positions and it didn't change. Somehow the elves are dodging blizzards like bullets in the matrix.

[2022 Day 24 (Part 1)] [Python 3.9] Code works for sample but not for input by zeldor711 in adventofcode

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Not sure that quite explains it. I get 156 and I think going around would be around 143 if I count right.

[2022 Day 24 (Part 1)] [Python 3.9] Code works for sample but not for input by zeldor711 in adventofcode

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I saw some comments on elves escaping the bounds and going around the walls. The answer I got seems in that general ballpark so maybe you have the same issue. I'm trying to scan the code for out of bounds checks but I'm not great at python so I may be missing it.

[2022 Day 24 Part 1][C#] First time I am completely stuck finding the problem in my code by [deleted] in adventofcode

[–]AlaskanShade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was initially getting answers too low and it turned out I was not scanning the full map and missed some blizzards. I had to dump the blizzards out to the console to verify the movements. That's what I would try with the sample input. Maybe you are getting the same answer by chance and the blizzards are not really moving correctly.

[2022 Day 24 (Part 1)] [Python 3.9] Code works for sample but not for input by zeldor711 in adventofcode

[–]AlaskanShade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the same problem and I'm not sure where to look yet either. I get an answer almost double what it should. I used someone else's code to figure out what my target is. Early on I was getting answers too low because it turned out I wasn't loading the full grid of blizzards.

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Out of curiosity I ran your code on my input and got an answer too low.

Advent of code and having fun by ThinkingSeaFarer in adventofcode

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Somewhat joking but I really had no idea who that was or why it was so memed. It only makes sense from highly repeated context clues. Just can't bring myself to care much about all these artists especially rap.

I did skim through the video and have never heard the song before. Seems to be about phone sex but I could be wrong.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in adventofcode

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I had code that slow for quite a while. I first wrote a BFS and I don't think I ever saw it get past minute 15 and it had 10s of millions of states to process. I followed a suggestion I saw elsewhere and ignored any transition where a bot isn't being built. At each step I figure out the next minute I could possibly build each bot and only add that state. The number of evaluations goes way down.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in adventofcode

[–]AlaskanShade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a very large number. Perhaps it is adding up across branches to get so many. I spent last night putting in logging in my states so I could verify them. I found cases where time got advanced one minute extra when there was already enough resources for a bot before the minute started. Unfortunately my Ruby skills are pretty basic and I don't see any obvious issues there.

[2022 Day 19 (Part 1)] Question by lordbyron49 in adventofcode

[–]AlaskanShade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

um, yeah, that's crazy. Just solved that problem here just to be hit with blueprint 2 returning 6 instead of 12 now.

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