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Is anyone else trying advent of code?

stanto
stanto over 1 year ago

https://adventofcode.com/2023/

It's a pretty good, progressive challenge from day to day, the goal is to complete the puzzle and provide the solution, and you can approach the puzzle however you like. 

I take the approach of using programming, but recently I have more fun throwing the challenge into ChatGPT to see if it can generate the code for me, usually it cannot generate the answer directly because sometimes the puzzle requires iterating over a data set that it doesn't enjoy taking at all at once.

It managed reasonably well with day 1, but the second part of day one took a lot more massaging for it to understand what I'm asking of it - apparently it's possible, but I guess I can't quite massage it right with the correct prompt.

For a more 'cyber security' approach there's tryhackme: https://tryhackme.com/r/christmas which is also fun :D

You can also setup a leaderboard for adventofcode, just for fun we could have a community one? Slight smile

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  • baldengineer
    baldengineer over 1 year ago +1
    I'm still working on the one from 2021.
  • Fred27
    Fred27 over 1 year ago

    I've never quite seen the point. I spend my working hours solving problems and writing code. If I have free time over Christmas it's for spending with my family, not doing more of what I'd be doing at work.

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  • baldengineer
    baldengineer over 1 year ago

    I'm still working on the one from 2021. Slight smile

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  • robogary
    robogary over 1 year ago

    Oooooo boy. Gotta work on an E14 2023 Holiday Special. And Hunney dos. And squeeze in some work work. And procrastinate.....which is really time consuming 

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  • electronicbiker
    electronicbiker over 1 year ago

    I just spent hours and hours modifying an old program that I wrote about 20 years ago so that it would work on the PC. I've always known that sometimes it is quicker to start again from scratch, but I thought on this occasion that it would be quicker to modify. That turned out to be a wrong decision. But I've done it now so all has not been lost. I'm afraid that's enough program-related puzzling for now, probably until well into 2024!

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