Advent of Code Day 11 — Monkey in the Middle
I thought this was just a puzzle to see if I knew about modulo arithmetic… but then it turned into a puzzle about VERY LARGE NUMBERS! Also, why do I bother with Java?
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Advent of Code Day 10 — Cathode-Ray Tube
Turns out the elves just really loved the Atari 2600 so much, they built their little handheld computers around them. And now it’s up to us to fix one.
Advent of Code Day 5 — Supply Stacks
The promised difficulty boost for Day 5 failed to materialize, instead being largely a puzzle about reading formatted input.
Advent of Code Day 4 — Camp Cleanup
As well as my Day 4 solutions in Python and Java, I talk about the AI solving controversy in Advent of Code, and teach the chat bot to speak a language I just now invented.
Advent of Code Day 3 — Rucksack Reorganization
I did this puzzle last night while writing the post about Day 2. This time I’m not in quite so much of a rush. Weekends. The puzzle description is best read on the AoC site — they’re always fun to read 🙂 Advent of Code always starts out slowly, getting people used to how things … Read more