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Advent of Code 2019 day 24

Advent of Code 2019 day 24

This was the challenge where I over-reached myself. Day 24 [https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/24]was about implementing a cellular automaton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton], much

Reversing the technical interview

Reversing the technical interview

Translation of a joke into Python and JS.

Seventh time lucky: solved

Seventh time lucky: solved

Brute-force solution of a number puzzle, plus a bit of investigation around it.

Git for beginners part 3: moving HEAD

Git for beginners part 3: moving HEAD

All about reset and why its useful.

Git for beginners part 2: branches and merging

Git for beginners part 2: branches and merging

Creating, using, and merging branches

Analysing the Covid-19 data

Analysing the Covid-19 data

A summary and extrapolations of the UK's Covid-19 data

Git for beginners part 1: commits and restore

Basic concepts of git: commits and how to undo mistakes

Advent of Code 2019 day 23

Advent of Code 2019 day 23

More encapsulated Intcode machines

Advent of Code 2019 day 22

Advent of Code 2019 day 22

Abstract algebra beats coding.

Advent of Code 2019 day 21

Advent of Code 2019 day 21

Solving by inspection

Advent of Code 2019 day 20

Advent of Code 2019 day 20

More graph contraction, and back to typeclasses

Advent of Code 2019 day 19

Advent of Code 2019 day 19

There are only two hard things in computer science...

Advent of Code 2019 day 18

Advent of Code 2019 day 18

Preprocessing and branching factors.

Advent of Code 2019 day 17

Advent of Code 2019 day 17

Stumbling in the dark, then greedy compression.

A first step into optics

A first step into optics

Dipping my toes into a new technique.

Advent of Code 2019 day 16

Advent of Code 2019 day 16

Exploiting built-in functions, and some special-case optimisation.

Advent of Code 2019 day 15

Advent of Code 2019 day 15

Searching and intcode

Advent of Code 2019 day 14

Advent of Code 2019 day 14

Blackboards and binary search

Advent of Code 2019 day 13

Advent of Code 2019 day 13

Remembering things when the game engine doesn't remind you

Advent of Code 2019 day 12

Advent of Code 2019 day 12

Adventures in polymorphism

Advent of Code 2019 day 11

Advent of Code 2019 day 11

Langton's ant, and more Intcode

Advent of Code 2019 day 10

Advent of Code 2019 day 10

In which Neil gets confused by numbers.

Advent of Code 2019 day 9

Advent of Code 2019 day 9

Back to the Intcode, tweaking some low-level bits

Advent of Code 2019 day 8

Advent of Code 2019 day 8

Some gentle data reshaping

Advent of Code 2019 day 7

Advent of Code 2019 day 7

When building your own concurrent scheduling system is the easy way.