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I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com
December 25, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I forgot the usual screenshot
December 19, 2024 at 2:36 PM
I just completed "Reindeer Maze" - Day 16 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/16

A nice tribute to well-known shortest path problems ... with a twist. I worked in reverse, starting from the end point and maintaining a work list of nodes to process.
December 17, 2024 at 9:12 PM
I just completed "Restroom Redoubt" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/14 #golang

My trick was to find images with at least 5 clusters of 6 robots consecutively aligned (why not 4 and 8, lucky guess).
December 14, 2024 at 9:36 AM
I just completed "Claw Contraption" - Day 13 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/13
#golang #smtlib

Decided to use an SMT solver (z3) for finding the solution to these linear optimization problems. Golang text/template and os/exec were quite useful.
December 13, 2024 at 9:20 AM