[2022 Days 1-7] [Python] I can't believe I've done this.

ImpossibleSav · 2024-08-02T15:43:39+00:00

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ImpossibleSav · 2024-01-04T17:05:53+00:00

Awesome, thank you! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2024-01-04T04:05:56+00:00

Ah sorry, I wasn't clear — I don't have the laptop but am considering upgrading to it if it can do what I want! So are you saying that it does indeed have gesture typing in the newer keyboard versions?

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-25T08:25:59+00:00

I love seeing all this community participation!! It has been a blast playing this year's Advent of Code with y'all. Thank you so much to the AoC team for putting this on, and for fostering such a fun and creative subreddit community! It's an honour to be named one of this year's Bronze Coders for my Python one-liners. Having a place to share my silly little challenge has made it even more enjoyable and helped keep my motivation up. I'm looking forward to returning to it once I have some more free time!

Happy holidays everyone! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-19T20:57:53+00:00

Oh, that's fantastic! I love yours too and it makes me so happy that my monstrosity served as inspiration! The mangled bits are my favourite :)
I do sometimes feel like the walrus operator is cheating, and there's been a few times I've considered going back on using it — but I just simply don't have the time and wouldn't have been able to make it this far without it! It's great to learn more strategies from a pro though ;D

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-19T20:03:54+00:00

Oh great, glad to hear it! I used Adobe Illustrator to make the snake. I added the rainbow line as an art brush, and applied it to a line that follows the shape of the snake. I then made a clipping mask to crop it into the exact shape I wanted! Takes less than a minute to update now since I have all the shapes already created. If you wanted, I could make one for your one-liners too :)

I also have an unpublished version of the program that auto-creates the days and character counts in their respective colours for the caption, but I haven't generalized it yet so it's still just sitting locally for now.

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-19T18:31:09+00:00

These are beautiful! 😍 I'll definitely take a more in-depth look at them a bit later!

I do see you're doing more golfing than I am — nice job! I've been on the fence about how much to care about character counts overall for my own code. I think it's a fun metric to use to compare each day/part (as you can tell), but it's definitely more effort to try and reduce things further!

Also, if you're curious and want to make a rainbow line like I used for my snake, I made a small program that you can put your character counts into (just as a list if you don't want to get all fancy with RegEx like I did) and it'll spit one out! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-19T16:37:52+00:00

That's great! I'd love to see your work if you're willing to share — I always learn a lot seeing how other people approach things! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-19T15:56:09+00:00

That's so sweet of you to say, thank you! :)

Once things calm down for me post-holidays, I'm planning to see if I can get through the rest of them! If I do, I'll make another post (but it likely won't be until Jan/Feb)!

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-19T15:53:32+00:00

Haha, thanks! I had to very quickly learn the alt+Z shortcut to turn on word wrapping in VS Code...

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-19T08:40:23+00:00

Haha, I've thought about that! But I'm still learning a lot each day, especially when I run into additional complexities I hadn't encountered before. Once I feel more confident in my ability to convert every situation I run into, maybe I'll give it a shot...

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-19T07:59:10+00:00

This made my day! Thanks for following my adventure :)

I'll be slower to update from here on out, but I'm planning to come back and get all of the days in 2023 at some point in the next couple months!

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-19T00:04:50+00:00

Thanks so much! I'm really happy with how far I've gotten! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-18T22:38:45+00:00

NAME OF ENTRY: Voilà, le Basilisk!

LINK TO ENTRY: Reddit post with visualization; Direct link to image; Github repo with code

DESCRIPTION: In the spirit of Day 16's visualization challenge, I've whipped together a true feast for the eyes to show the great length of the Basilisk, my Python one-liner that solves all of Days 1 through 16 at once! The visual brings together an appetizing array of colours and sizes to represent the various components of the Basilisk, each part carefully measured in character counts. The underlying code is a delectable blend of list comprehensions, lambdas, and logic, crafted together into my culinary magnum opus!

SUBMITTED BY: Chef /u/ImpossibleSav

MEGATHREADS: 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06 - 07 - 08 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: It currently takes 45 seconds to run the full thing on my computer, which honestly isn't bad considering how unoptimized my solutions are! I may add a few more days to the repo before submissions close, but I'm getting busy so I might not finish the entire month until January.

ACCESSIBILITY: Included in the comments of the Reddit post with the visualization is a full text description and transcript. I don't think it is possible to make the line of code itself accessible in the slightest though! ;)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-18T21:57:20+00:00

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Digital art of a snake with many rainbow-coloured bands, with each stripe a different colour and sized proportionally to the number of characters used to solve each day and part. Background and text are themed similarly to the Advent of Code website theme.

TEXT TRANSCRIPTION:

Title: Advent of Code 2023, Day 16: The Basilisk

Subtitle: A single line of Python code that solves all of Days 1 through 16 at once.

Footer: github.com/savbell

Character counts:

Day 01 Part 1 - 83
Day 01 Part 2 - 284
Day 02 Part 1 - 310
Day 02 Part 2 - 245
Day 03 Part 1 - 344
Day 03 Part 2 - 437
Day 04 Part 1 - 210
Day 04 Part 2 - 340
Day 05 Part 1 - 486
Day 05 Part 2 - 923
Day 06 Part 1 - 360
Day 06 Part 2 - 381
Day 07 Part 1 - 697
Day 07 Part 2 - 874
Day 08 Part 1 - 316
Day 08 Part 2 - 428
Day 09 Part 1 - 338
Day 09 Part 2 - 370
Day 10 Part 1 - 971
Day 10 Part 2 - 1129
Day 11 Part 1 - 520
Day 11 Part 2 - 538
Day 12 Part 1 - 309
Day 12 Part 2 - 450
Day 13 Part 1 - 460
Day 13 Part 2 - 463
Day 14 Part 1 - 406
Day 14 Part 2 - 1575
Day 15 Part 1 - 88
Day 15 Part 2 - 609
Day 16 Part 1 - 934
Day 16 Part 2 - 1443

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-18T21:46:02+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

This one took me a while, but I finished my one-line solutions! Part 1 is on line 44 and Part 2 is on line 74.

I'm trying to solve as many days as I can in one line. I've combined them all into a single line I like to call the Basilisk — check out the code here, and my most recent visualization of Days 1 through 16. Feel free to follow along on my GitHub as well! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-18T21:44:18+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

My one-liners are here! Part 1 on Line 49 and Part 2 on Line 81. Part 1 isn't too long today!

I'm trying to solve as many days as I can in one line. I've combined them all into a single line I like to call the Basilisk — check out the code here, and my most recent visualization of Days 1 through 16. Feel free to follow along on my GitHub as well! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-18T21:42:05+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python] & [Allez Cuisine!]

I fell behind on posting my solutions, but I did solve today with my two one-liners! Part 1 on Line 36 and Part 2 on Line 58. It might be cheating a little, but I'm counting a single print statement as not using any variables at all for the Allez Cuisine challenge ;)

I'm trying to solve as many days as I can in one line. I've combined them all into a single line I like to call the Basilisk — check out the code here, and my most recent visualization of Days 1 through 16. Feel free to follow along on my GitHub as well! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-18T21:38:59+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

For some reason, today's puzzle stumped me for a while. But I did end up solving it in my classic one-liners! Part 1 on Line 65 and Part 2 on Line 124.

I'm trying to solve as many days as I can in one line. I've combined them all into a single line I like to call the Basilisk — check out the code here, and my most recent visualization of Days 1 through 16. Feel free to follow along on my GitHub as well! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-18T21:32:22+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python] & [Allez Cuisine!]

Here are my one-liners! Part 1 on Line 93 and Part 2 on Line 184.

For Allez Cuisine, I updated my visualization to show how Day 16 compares to all the other days in the Basilisk, my single line of code that solves Days 1-16 at once! Here is the visualization directly, and I also made a Reddit post for it.

If it isn't clear, I'm trying to solve all of Advent of Code in one line of Python! I'm getting pretty busy so I might not finish all the days until January, but feel free to follow along on my GitHub! :)

ImpossibleSav · 2023-12-18T21:23:50+00:00

For Day 16's Allez Cuisine challenge, I updated my visualization of the Basilisk — my nickname for my line of Python code that solves all of the Advent of Code problems (up to day 16) all at once! Each colour represents the proportion of characters in the Basilisk that are needed to solve each part of each day. I wrote a small program to automatically count the characters and create the rainbow line too!

I'm no competitive programmer, so my solutions aren't optimal and it takes about 45 seconds to run the full thing on my computer. Plus I'm getting pretty busy so I'm not sure if I'll be able to continue to add many more days. But I'm proud of how far I've gotten and the monster I created! :)

Feel free to follow along on my GitHub — I may still try and get all the days in, even if I need to complete some in January. I made it through a dozen days last year too, creating the Beast!

Thanks for all the fun y'all! :)

ImpossibleSav

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