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The official awful.systems Advent of Code 2023 thread (awful.systems)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Re: LCM, I figured my favorite Perl library ntheory had it, and I was right! This a godsend for Project Euler, too.

(The first year of AoC leaned heavily on these kinds of problems, and Python itertools utterly destroyed the puzzles.)

Re: leaderboard participants - I believe many of them are involved in programming contests, generally, and if you do enough of these, you recognize patterns, and you have routines for a lot of stuff. Also there are tools to download the puzzle inputs automatically.

My personal take on how to do AoC: https://gerikson.com/blog/comp/adventofcode/Howto-AoC.html (maybe already posted, I don't care)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the insight. I haven’t done much AoC, and this largely confirms the vibes I’ve been getting this time around.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Much like a high IQ score doesn't show intelligence, but rather the aptitude to take IQ tests, being good at AoC does not show you are a good programmer, but rather that you are good at programming challenges.