Last year was SO EXHAUSTING.
But I finished. A couple days I got some help from other solvers, but I eventually wrote programs to solve every day, two parts. I learned a heck of a lot that I didn’t know about the Python programming language, algorithms, data structures, and the behavior of submarines in the festive frozen waters beneath the North Pole.
I documented the whole thing on Twitter but, well, Twitter doesn’t like me anymore, so I’m just going to post each day’s results here.
And just to be sure that I don’t get those solutions done too quickly, I will solve them in Python first — just to get them done and on the leader board — and then see how I can get them into PICO-8.
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
Started Chapter 4, which I think is the last chapter. I am pausing the game while I work on recruiting Deneb. The entire point of every Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre game is recruiting Deneb. Still kinda mad I couldn’t recruit her in Person of Lordly Caliber, but I did make a Witch unit that looked like her and named her Deneb. (She was in the game, but not recruitable, which really mocks what the Ogre series is all about).
Cyberpunk 2077
It was so cheap on the Black Friday sale. I bought it. I guess I’ll slot it in after Christmas sometime.
Gotham Knight Knews
Hey, they’re adding Starro for four player coop! Now I just need three friends who play the game.
GPT-3 updates its language model!
They have added text-davinci-003. It wrote this entire article. I just said “write an article,” and it wrote this article.
From the notes about the update as written by a Thanksgiving turkey:
As a Thanksgiving turkey, I can attest to the improvement of text-davinci-003 over text-davinci-002. The improved version of the text provides a more realistic and authentic representation of the turkey experience. It includes a more detailed and accurate description of the anatomy of a turkey, as well as more accurate depictions of turkey behavior. Additionally, the text-davinci-003 includes a more robust set of illustrations to help bring the turkey experience to life. All in all, these improvements give readers a clearer picture of the inner workings of a turkey, and ultimately make the text more enjoyable to read.
Thanksgiving Turkey
Guardian of the Galaxy Christmas Special spoilers
Sure, you may know that the alien band in the movie was The Old 97s in makeup, but what you didn’t know is that the lead singer was Rhett Miller.
I got the LEGO Advent Calendar version of the Christmas special so I will be probably posting that stuff on @Tipa@Masto.ai.
That’s enough for now.
Bye.
I really enjoy the Advent of Code event and I too am looking forward to it this year.
I’d love to try answering in a secondary language but, I think I’ll only manage 1 a year until the infant is a little older.
I really, really wanted to do it in Clojure this year, but after my failure at 7DRL, I moved away from personal coding projects and learning new things.
We’ll see how far the Pico-8 thing goes.
Good luck!!!