Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time
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Day 11
Some hacking required to make JQ work on part 2 for this one.
Day 14, got very lucky on this one, but too tired to think about why part 2 still worked.
I didn’t really know what they wanted in part 2, so…
Hope this works!
This morning I felt a bit burned out on AoC but thought I might as well just do some noodling around on breaks. Turns out it was
So far this is the current standing according to the finishing times of the 1st 100 answers on the global leaderboard
One look day 9 and I had to leave it until after work (puzzles unlock at 2PM for me), it wasn't THAT hard, but I had to leave it until later.
puzzles unlock at 2PM
Almost exactly at the start of office hours for me.
Day 12:
Day 13, day 13 of shirking other responsibilities.
I liked day 13, a bit easy but in the right way.
Edit: ::: spoiler Spoilers Although saying "minimum" was a bit evil when all of the systems had exactly 1 solution (not necessarily in ℕ^2), I wonder if it's puzzle trickiness, anti-LLM (and unfortunate non comp-sci souls) trickiness or if the puzzle was maybe scaled down from a version where there are more solutions. :::
Day 15