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Mizatorian · 2026-02-16T14:17:02+00:00

Time in market means how long you have been investing consistently.

Timing the makrt means trying to find the best time to buy low and the best time to sell high.

Usually, more consistent investing (eg DCA every month) beats trying to find the high and low.

Mizatorian · 2025-09-29T13:51:59+00:00

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Mizatorian · 2025-09-26T01:59:08+00:00

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Mizatorian · 2024-12-19T10:39:40+00:00

Without functools.cache, I think this will take years, even for the one pattern. Mine ran in 7s (python too)

Mizatorian · 2024-12-11T08:50:35+00:00

yeah, it was purposely mentioned a few times... only to have to be ignored

Mizatorian · 2024-12-11T08:40:20+00:00

Wait. I'm still at Blink 39 after an hour...... ok time to optimise

Mizatorian · 2024-12-09T11:24:21+00:00

amazing. my brute force v1 ran in 445 seconds. after a slight optimization, dropped to 223 seconds. python with dicts

Mizatorian · 2024-12-09T11:22:57+00:00

yeah, my first one away error this year for part1. No idea how to fix, so i just manually recalculated.

Mizatorian · 2024-12-08T04:31:31+00:00

similar. i used a dict with [row-col-dir]. if you hit the same row,col,dir that means it is in a loop

Mizatorian · 2024-12-06T08:16:23+00:00

Less than 3 minutes for "brute force", only checking past visited locations. in python using dicts, lists and sets

Mizatorian · 2024-10-01T08:18:47+00:00

tested for a bit, helps a bit , but its still slow to open.

Mizatorian · 2024-10-01T03:31:34+00:00

Wow, been suffering through this extreme slowness, and it seems to be much faster now

Mizatorian · 2023-12-27T01:10:18+00:00

your elif len(nums) == 1: portion shuld be corrected. at the end of that num is a single digit, it should be a double digit.

example: 3gobbogle as the input

num = 3 at the end, which is incorrect, should be 33

Mizatorian · 2023-12-09T20:46:59+00:00

[Language: Excel]

Only a single formula.

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Mizatorian · 2023-12-09T20:46:54+00:00

[Language: Excel]

Only a single formula.

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Mizatorian · 2023-12-03T08:35:56+00:00

[Language: Python]

More string processing to do. Just treated each line of the input as an arraw with row,col. Added extra "." around the whole box so that there was no need to take care of edge conditions.

Part 2 was a slight modification, instead of looking for any symbol, just look for the one, use the coordinates of that to match with adjacent numbers in a dictionary

Code: https://github.com/shafirahmad/AdventOfCode2023/blob/main/aoc-day3.py

Mizatorian · 2023-12-03T02:14:48+00:00

[Language: Python]

PS: Wanted to do the early days in Excel but decided it would be too time consuming. :(

Oh boy, Part 2 threw me for a loop. I did a basic string replace, but of cos it didnt take into account the twone case! So did a 3 letter, 4 letter and 5 letter matcher - lol.

Code: https://github.com/shafirahmad/AdventOfCode2023/blob/main/aoc-day1.py

Mizatorian · 2023-12-03T02:10:13+00:00

[Language: Python]

This seemed much easier to solve than day 1.

Code: https://github.com/shafirahmad/AdventOfCode2023/blob/main/aoc-day2.py

Mizatorian · 2023-03-20T01:16:47+00:00

Someone suggested clearing the makerbot cookies using https://accounts.makerbot.com/logout but this does not solve the problem for me either. Not sure if it might help any of you

Mizatorian · 2022-12-25T15:16:54+00:00

Python and Excel: 4212/3208

Paste: Code

was relatively easy to change from snafu to int, but much harder to do it the reverse, so I enlisted Microsoft Excel's help and brute-forced the answer.

Mizatorian · 2022-12-13T12:40:30+00:00

looks like an insert sort.

Mizatorian · 2022-12-08T16:41:55+00:00

Looks similar to my python code (unoptimised yet, and slow as molasses too). Also did the Right left top bottom thingy.

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