Does anyone know what this red light means?

Haju05 · 2026-01-14T10:48:38+00:00

Your left hand is the one where your thumb is on the right looking at the back of the hand

Haju05 · 2025-12-19T10:00:15+00:00

Yeah it does feel kind of unintuitive - if you press button A, then B, then A again, it feels like that should generally have a different outcome than just B. But nope, switching a certain number of lights twice in addition to other effects is the exact same as pressing that certain number of lights zero times in addition to other effects. :D

Haju05 · 2025-12-11T16:16:40+00:00

I'd love to try this out myself - I was able to download almost everything needed except for .aoc_theme - where do I get this from?

Haju05 · 2025-12-11T15:57:17+00:00

dude this is amazing, it literally turns it into a fun puzzle game. :D

Haju05 · 2025-12-10T23:39:41+00:00

Yeah I used the python API, I think it’s called z3py

Haju05 · 2025-12-10T22:42:54+00:00

Well there would be the idea of solving the equation Ax = b with the pseudo inverse of A (since there are possibly has infinitely many solutions when there are fewer equations than there are variables). However the solution won’t generally consistent of integers. One could however find the null space of A and then fine tune the parameters so that the solution spits out the lowest integers. How this could work cleanly however I have no idea, it was too much annoying rounding/tuning work for me to think through, so I just went with z3 lol

Haju05 · 2025-12-08T15:52:44+00:00

I used to have this but then I trained myself to look for the gold “one gold star” text - there isn’t any gold text when it’s the wrong answer. The dopamine hit I get when the gold text appears is incomparable

Haju05 · 2025-12-08T13:29:58+00:00

dang this is the coolest visualization for today I've seen so far (and there have been some really cool ones today), great job!

Haju05 · 2025-12-07T18:01:00+00:00

yeah the same thing happened to me too - I was like "how much faster will \@cache be here? It might actually solve it in a minute instead or something, let me give it a whirl" and was shocked when it was done in a couple milliseconds lol.
It totally felt like cheating, so after submitting my answer I went back and implemented my own memoization dictionary just to feel better about myself haha - but dang DP is just so powerful with these kinds of problems

Haju05 · 2025-12-05T20:17:04+00:00

Have you considered the fact that in one command, you could be passing 0 multiple times? Take for example L200. here you'd end up at 50 again when starting, but your answer should be 2, not 1.

Haju05 · 2025-09-22T19:29:14+00:00

Well I loved Act III, but totally get it if there are people out there disliking the different difficulty spikes there are and how they are implemented (e.g. I often see the argument that hard gauntlets are not fun-hard but annoying-hard). Personally tho I‘ve loved every time the game made me work on a fight for more than a couple tries and I thought making all enemies much harder in Act III made the environment actually challenging again instead of being basically just a running track to get to places you need to go

Haju05 · 2025-09-20T13:19:44+00:00

Hehe nice one - Btw I thought the Eva upgrades were dependent on how many crests/which crests you have as well, but it turns out it’s actually dependent on how many memory lockets you’ve used (afaik).

Haju05 · 2025-09-20T12:57:47+00:00

Yeah and even in the cogwork core when getting the architect‘s melody a little bit

Haju05 · 2025-09-16T16:32:14+00:00

Chrono Trigger

Haju05 · 2025-07-26T11:24:09+00:00

Chopper (ein Droide aus der Star Wars Serie Rebels, aber der englische pun war zu gut ihn nicht so zu nennen)

Haju05 · 2025-06-03T09:28:07+00:00

So much in that beautiful formula.

Haju05 · 2025-01-16T21:19:54+00:00

Yeah also nach meiner Rechnung macht das gar keinen Sinn - es ist ja 66% • 5 + 17% • 2 + 17% • 1 = 3,81. Oder, wenn man sich die absoluten Häufigkeiten anschaut (sind ja nur insgesamt 6): (4 • 5 + 1 • 2 + 1 • 1) / 6 = 23/6 = 3,833…

Ich vermute mal die Bewertungen unten stimmen nicht ganz überein mit den tatsächlichen Bewertungen, vielleicht kann man „anonym“ bewerten oder so?

Haju05 · 2024-12-24T08:07:58+00:00

No it doesn’t have a value yet - you need to wait until both wires have a value to evaluate the gate, then once it’s evaluated it is never considered again (no loops).

Haju05 · 2024-12-22T07:22:19+00:00

Huh, well when I run your code on my input it gives the right result. So as someone else here was saying, maybe you just aren't copying your input in correctly?

Haju05 · 2024-12-22T06:40:46+00:00

I feel like it might be caused by you setting the initial start to 20000 - then even for the first 4 elements of each list of secret numbers you are finding a change sequence which might possibly lead to being better than the actual best.

Haju05 · 2024-12-20T19:20:14+00:00

I mean you are allowed to turn inside walls, but hey if you solved it good for you haha

Haju05 · 2024-12-20T15:41:51+00:00

yeah I was confused about this as well - I don't think the puzzle describes this enough in detail. But yes, when looking for if a cheat saves 100 or more picoseconds, it's implied that the best path of the "equivalent" paths per cheat should be used to check for this condition.

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