puzzle - Neil's musings (Page 2)

Advent of Code 2023 day 03

Advent of Code 2023 day 03

A lot of scaffolding to get where I wanted to be.

Advent of Code 2023 day 02

Advent of Code 2023 day 02

Declarative code and fun with monoids!

Advent of Code 2023 day 01

Advent of Code 2023 day 01

The importance of comprehensive examples.

Optimising riddle generation

Optimising riddle generation

Optimising riddle generation, trading space for time, then exploring something like laziness

Generating riddles

Generating riddles

How to generate the riddles I solved in the last post.

Solving riddles

Solving riddles

A worked example of how to solve word-guessing riddles

Optimising Haskell, example 3

Optimising Haskell, example 3

Optimising Haskell programs, mainly by changing the algorithm used.

Advent of Code 2022 review

Advent of Code 2022 review

A review of my experiences with Advent of Code 2022

Honeycomb puzzle part 2

Honeycomb puzzle part 2

Making the solver fast

Honeycomb puzzle, part 1

Honeycomb puzzle, part 1

A fun little word puzzle. Here we solve it, next we make it fast.

Seventh time lucky: solved

Seventh time lucky: solved

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

Solving Lucy's secret number puzzle

Solving Lucy's secret number puzzle

Getting a machine to solve a neat little number puzzle