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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by CameronDev to c/advent_of_code
 

Well, that was a month. Congrats everyone who has reached the end, and thanks to everyone who has contributed solutions and advice.

Sometime in January I will create a megathread for visualizations. If anyone has any other ideas, happy to hear them, otherwise, take a well earned 11 month rest until next year :D

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean final :( I am at 20 and am planning to at least do a couple more :p before the new year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly, I'm going to be trying to tick a few more off if I have time

[–] CameronDev 2 points 3 months ago

That's what I told myself last year :D good luck!

[–] CameronDev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My apologies, keep going and ill update the post on new years eve. I dont think you'll managed to reach the top spot though :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

for sure not but maybe I will make it to the screenshot :/

[–] CameronDev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tbh, I cut the screenshot off there because it fit myself in, so its only fair I extend for the update. Sadly I am the second Cameron on the list :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

tbh even if I solve all the remaining 5 problems, I will likely not even pass 30!

[–] CameronDev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If I sort it by global score, we are all tied for 2nd :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

wow we have someone with a positive global score in the leader board! well I have solved everything I can for now: all except 20,21,24 part2. part2 of these problems made me go "oh for fucks sake". So maybe I will just steep for a while with these questions and see if I can come up with something without having to look anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Hey that's me! Congrats to everyone!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It was nice to see some of the same faces (as it were) again from last year!

Also great to see more Haskell solutions, and props to those crazy enough to write in J and Uiua.

[–] Pyro 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yay, I made it in the screenshot! Thanks everyone, this was my first year and it was a lot of fun!

[–] CameronDev 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Made it in the screenshot and beat me :). Congrats on finishing, in my mind, that's the hardest part!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I alwqys assumed you were Cameron Wu, who is?

[–] CameronDev 2 points 3 months ago

No idea, maybe they aren't active here?

[–] EnEnCode 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Congrats to everyone! Not first year, though first year of at least trying every problem. Burnout definitely got me by day 20 though, ha ha ha... There was a lot of ugly (readability a backseat to "code writing speed"), a lot of bad (don't ask how long the test suite has to run for), but an occasional gem of good (my day 19 solution is some of the most dopamine from just writing code I've gotten. I'm only used to getting that much when it actually gets merged). I learned a little through the problems themselves, but I did learn a lot about writing macro_rules macros by creating a test suite generator and a benchmark generator. I also picked up some useful Git knowledge like --allow-unrelated-histories, interactive rebasing, --name-only, and using the reflog to help recover data (don't ask what happened on day 23). This year was a personal success. Till next year!

[–] CameronDev 1 points 3 months ago

I liked 19 as well. Adding memoization and seeing the runtime drop to near zero was so satisfying.

My main learning takeaway was that I am not fully aware of all the various inbuilt iterators in rust, so exploring those was quite valuable.

[–] Zikeji 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nice! Though I'm not sure if I belong on the leaderboard. There were a couple solutions I had to look up spoilers / inspiration for. My first year, next year I hope to manage it with no need to check things.

[–] CameronDev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dont think that is cheating, its about learning, and seeking help/inspiration is a valid way to learn. As long as you aren't just using an LLM or copying the code entirely, I think you belong on the leaderboard.

[–] Zikeji 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're right. And my library aversion definitely made it harder. I think the day I learned the most was day 19, the towel one. Seemed simple at first but I just couldn't wrap my mind around it, looked at a few solutions and one of the dynamic programming one solutions just blew my mind. Took me an hour or so to just wrap my head around it and then once I understood it I was able to write that abomination I posted from scratch (well, without needing to reference what I studied).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

where did you see that solution in the lemmy topic?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the first year I participate but the first year I finished, 2021 was my all-time high so far with 42 stars when I was just starting oit and learning python. Knowing that there were more people in the same boat and that there was a competition kept me going, although the competiton also induced a lot of stress, not sure whether I want to keep the competitive attitude.

Thanks to everyone for uploding solutions, Ideas and program stats, this kept me optimizing away, which was a lot of fun!

[–] CameronDev 4 points 3 months ago

I dont care for the global leaderboard, its mostly LLMs and competitive programmers, who are way too fast. "Competing" against everyone here is much less stressful and more enjoyable.

This was my first finish as well,last year I bailed after day 12.