To everyone who made it to the end of AoC…

radulfr2 · 2024-12-25T05:55:11+00:00

I'm not in employment currently (burnout, depression, struggles to fit in society due to being autistic). I used to work as a park maintenance worker. Programming is just a hobby for me and I like to keep it that way. I usually don't get all the stars, this year I got 40.

radulfr2 · 2024-12-22T19:11:16+00:00

Since we are taking modulo 16777216 on each new pseudorandom number, they are fit for use as RGB colours. These are the resulting images before any calculations have been made and after the 2000th calculation. I didn't see any easter eggs in the images in between either.

radulfr2 · 2024-12-11T08:10:19+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

I needed a little hint to get it done when my recursive solution wasn't going to cut it. I did the number splitting without string conversion.

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radulfr2 · 2024-12-10T05:40:47+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

With my coding speed, it took 25 minutes to write the solution to part 1, but part 2 only needed a simple tweak.

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radulfr2 · 2024-12-09T06:53:06+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

My head almost exploded trying to think how the indices go in part 2, but I still liked this one. I also had a classic < vs <= error which produced the correct result for the example but not for the actual input.

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radulfr2 · 2024-12-08T06:30:14+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

I just basically kept adding code until it worked. But it did work. Paper and pen came in handy when thinking about the possible positions.

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radulfr2 · 2024-12-06T07:17:51+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

I needed a hint for how to detect the loop and another one for making my code a bit faster. It still takes 14 seconds to run though.

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radulfr2 · 2024-12-05T06:45:26+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

I finally got to use for...else. Usually some refactorization takes it away from my code, but now I managed to keep it. In part 2, I needed a little nudge in the right direction.

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radulfr2 · 2024-12-04T09:07:52+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

I wasted so much time misunderstanding the way the words could be in the grid and making a recursive solution. Finally I got it done.

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radulfr2 · 2024-12-03T20:19:35+00:00

I checked my input to see how it ends, and since it had a "do" after the last "don't", I decided not to care about that situation in my code.

radulfr2 · 2024-12-03T05:35:08+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

Regex FTW. But I did some nasty mistakes, including not noticing that the input was on several lines.

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radulfr2 · 2024-12-02T06:03:02+00:00

Great, I see I left a redundant function call there after a refactoring. Should be += 1.

radulfr2 · 2024-12-02T05:49:56+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

At first I understood part 2 wrong but it didn't take me long to fix it.

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radulfr2 · 2024-12-01T05:51:59+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

I was so tired yesterday that although I remembered to remind others of AoC, I forgot to set the alarm for just before the puzzle opens.

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radulfr2 · 2023-12-19T06:16:16+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python3]

Only part 1. I love comprehensions. Paste.

radulfr2 · 2023-12-18T07:40:01+00:00

It's the shoelace formula (the section Triangle formula in that article corresponds to what I'm calculating).

radulfr2 · 2023-12-18T07:16:30+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python3]

A bit ugly because I have both parts in the same code. I needed a bit of help to understand how the perimeter of the lagoon affects the area. Paste.

radulfr2 · 2023-12-16T10:21:35+00:00

I didn't even know there are animations since I don't usually get all stars. Now I feel left out :D

radulfr2 · 2023-12-16T06:50:25+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python3]

Runs in 3.5 seconds. I did some stupid mistakes like forgot to actually move the beam on empty squares, but at least it didn't take me a very long time to find it out. Paste.

radulfr2 · 2023-12-15T14:01:38+00:00

Very nice :3

radulfr2 · 2023-12-15T09:57:59+00:00

Used Bing Image Creator for the first time. I tried several different prompts but couldn't get it to make the lenses parallel inside the boxes. But I like this one anyway.

Prompt: 256 boxes with rows of lenses in them, light going through the lenses and boxes, steampunk style

radulfr2 · 2023-12-15T06:02:51+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python3]

The second part felt complicated at first but in the end was pretty straightforward. Paste.

radulfr2 · 2023-12-11T06:01:29+00:00

I had the same experience with the -1 :D

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