Staying up until midnight to
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Day Time Rank Score Time Rank Score
6 09:10:03 35364 0 09:32:16 33377 0
5 00:20:51 3783 0 00:30:28 3889 0
4 00:19:57 3989 0 00:57:37 4019 0
3 00:33:39 6833 0 00:41:09 6119 0
2 00:17:53 4024 0 00:27:31 4161 0
1 10:35:04 38878 0 10:36:37 35346 0
Got reminded of it late.
Mind immediately went to the re module. If there was ever an opportunity for
me to make it to the main leaderboard it would've been today. And I was still no where close.
Oh boy! Day 4 is where I start to get in trouble. Disclaimer: I sort of cheated. I knew I was only off by one and my code was too much spaghetti to find my mistake, so I just entered the right answer without working code.
I went with a brute force approach with regexp and if conditions. In hindsight I could have replaced all the if statements with better regexp.
I'm going to want to come back to this one.
Did a lousy job parsing the puzzle...both parts. It wasn't until about halfway through my solution that I realized I could do it without all the dumb array stuff I was doing. There was a simple, math based solution. But I continued on the path I was on.
This sentence in part 2:
Your seat wasn't at the very front or back, though; the seats with IDs +1 and -1 from yours will be in your list.
Was difficulty for me to parse. I couldn't understand what it was trying to tell me. So I just printed the available seats and hoped one would stand out to me. One did. The result also illuminated the sentence.
Things I learned in day 5:
- I don't parse the puzzles well and this leads me to bad solutions
It is better to sleep in that obsess about the private leaderboard. But Day 6
fun. I thought my solution was easy, didn't turn out so easy. I learned
somethings about sets I didn't previously know discard("some value").
And I changed my data file reading to match what I saw people doing in
day 4, and it really helped me here.
Things I learned in day 6:
- I don't think as clearly when I have company.