Advent Of Code

Everyone loves a good visualisation, share any visualisations that you have created here.

Just letting everyone know that I’ll post the final leaderboard new years day, so get your final solves in over the new few days!

Part 2 is basically running just the isolation rule from Conway’s game of life until the world state stabilizes. I’m curious if anyone noticed this and used an existing cellular automata program or library to handle the computation.

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Hi All,

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Link to participate: https://everybody.codes/

Link to participate: https://everybody.codes/

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Link to participate: https://everybody.codes/

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I was solving old Advent of Code the other day, and someone suggested to me another seasonal coding challenge website: https://everybody.codes/home

I know I'm not going to be a leaderboard type, especially given my schedule around the holiday seasons. So I take my time and read the whole problem, including the flavor text, and I have to say I appreciate it! Nice and festive, it's the little things that make this seem more like a fun programming puzzle exercise I actively want to do as recreation, and less like a dry exercise to force myself to learn a new language or library. But it still facilitates me doing those two things anyways. The flavor text, along with the ASCII art that gets colored in each day I star, helps it feel like a festive thing too—so I don't feel like I'm being a Grinch doing these puzzles during the holiday season.

Hi guys.

I'm looking for something like this (these are not correct, just an example for what I'm looking for):

Hello,

Visualizations are hard, and take time, so here is a thread to highlight the visualizations that we have found/created.

Now that Advent of Code 2024 has concluded, I wanted to get people's opinion on what puzzles they especially liked looking back. This could be because of the puzzle mechanics, the description, because you are especially proud of your solution that day, or for any other reason.

I am wondering if manual inspection is the way to go for pt2? Seems almost achievable with some formatting. Anyone been down this road?

I thought about it for 15 mins, but couldn't think of any mathematical tricks. I thought of lots of minor tricks, like comparing the number to the result and not adding any more multiplications if it's over, things that would cut 10%-20% here and there, but nothing which fundamentally changes big O running time.

I'll start with what I do not mean by this question. I know you need to know programming and data structures, but what I am asking about is specific algorithms and theorems.