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1 day agore: p1
I literally created different test inputs for all the examples given and that found a lot of bugs for me. Specifically the difference between literal and combo operators.
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I honestly had no idea of the original Russian meaning of the gloss. To me “refusenik” implies some sort of hard-left hippie.
Edit finally went and read the linked article.
Schneier and Sanders:
We agree with Morozov that the “refuseniks,” as he calls them, are wrong to see AI as “irreparably tainted” by its origins.
Morozov:
Meanwhile, a small but growing group of scholars and activists are taking aim at the deeper, systemic issues woven into AI’s foundations, particularly its origins in Cold War–era computing. For these refuseniks, AI is more than just a flawed technology; it’s a colonialist, chauvinist, racist, and even eugenicist project, irreparably tainted at its core.
But the original term was not for people refusing to take an action - it was the state refusing to allow their actions! It’s done a 180, but considering no-one now remembers the plight of Soviet Jews attempting to emigrate to Israel it’s not that strange.
9·2 days agoDoctor Parkinson declared, “I’m not surprised to see you here
You’ve got smokers cough from smoking, brewer’s droop from drinking beer
I don’t know how you came to get the Bette Davis knees
But worst of all young man, you’ve got industrial disease”
re: day 14 part 2
I had nfc how to solve this but someoone on the subreddit mentioned that miminizine the “safety score” was the way to go too … I guess your explanation is the correct one. Also the way the puzzle is generated is to start with the tree and go “backwards” a couple of thousand steps and use a number of of those as starting positions. Probably throw in some random robots as noise.
Diamond Age is an interesting idea, the original Primer was for the elite and used distributed encryption to farm out the qualified work to skilled artisans. In the end though, a cut-down primer (using some sort of AI? it’s been a long time since I read it) is used to educate and train the girl army used by one of the faction in the final battle.
It’s not really explained but I suspect the OG Primer had a robust payment model that ensured that the service oculd be kept solvent.
Assuming the company will last 5 years is awfully optimistic.
re: 11p2 discussion
I was also on my way to building a multilevel memoization cache with “branches”, when I just happened to stumble on an incredibly elegant solution in the subreddit. I stole it and awarded myself only 1 point for today. Because I’m worth it.
sounds horrorshow to me
Pretty sure this person has been watching a lot of very inappropriate anime
Posted: https://awful.systems/post/3026384?scrollToComments=true
Be there, or not.
RAF’s aims were explicitely accelerationist - their terror would provoke a ferocious repressional response that would open the eyes of the masses to the repressive government and trigger a revolution.
being performatively worried about Japanese birth rates is a HN trope, for whatever that’s worth
This morning I felt a bit burned out on AoC but thought I might as well just do some noodling around on breaks. Turns out it was
day 10
pretty dang easy
So far this is the current standing according to the finishing times of the 1st 100 answers on the global leaderboard
- Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
- Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
- Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
- Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
- Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
- Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
- Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
- Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
- Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
- Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
ya lost me there bub
re: 10 commentary
apparently “everyone” did this. Me too
“Our righteous warriors are only supposed to kill brown people and women, not captains of industry!!”
I had a lot of trouble because my input was truncated, despite the site warning me about that. Did I listen? I did not.
edit
day 9 discussion
Principal Skinner moment
“Did I miscopy the input?”
“No, it is my algorithm that is wrong”
kinda satisfying to figure out I was correct all along.
Part 2 is not as fast as I’d like (14s), but faster than it was. People on reddit are wittering on about search trees, me I just sling Perl hashrefs around
https://github.com/gustafe/aoc2024/blob/main/d09-Disk-Fragmenter.pl
Time for a new thread for a new week?
day 18
bit of a breather episode
As long as you ensure A* / Dijkstra’s (is there a functional difference if the edge weights are constant?) you’ll get the shortest path. Part 2 was just simulation for me, if I started in the state of part 1 it took a minute to run through the rest of the bytes.