Day 22: Monkey Market

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  • mykl@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Uiua

    It’s been a while since I posted one of these, but I thought this would be straightforward in Uiua. Turns out that bitwise operations are a bit (haha) of a pain, so the Rng operation is very slow at 4sec for live data.

    I took this as an opportunity to play with the ⧈(stencil) operator which probably slowed things down too.

    Data ← 1_2_3_2024
    Xor  ← °⋯◿20+∩⋯ # Bitwise xor of two numbers.
    Rng  ← ⊙◌◿,Xor×2048.◿,Xor⌊÷32.◿,Xor×64.⊙16777216
    Runs ← ⍉(⇌[⍥(Rng.)])2000 Data # Should be constant?
    Firsts ← (
      ⊟⊂0⧈₂/-.◿10 ↘¯1         # Build run, gen pair diffs
      ⊢⧈(⊟⊙⊣/(+×40+20)°⊟) 2_4 # Convert 4-diff into key, collect.
      ⊕⊢⊛⊙⍉⊙◌°⊟.⍉             # Only keep first of each key. # ⍜(map°⊟⍉⇌|∘) failed. 
    )
    &p /+≡⊣.Runs
    &p /↥⊕(/+)+1⊛°⊟⍉/◇⊂wait≡spawn(□Firsts) # Group by key, sum prices, return highest.
    
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    Rust

    Nice breather today (still traumatized from the robots). At some point I thought you had to do some magic for predicting special properties of the pseudorandom function, but no, just collect all values, have a big table for all sequences and in the end take the maximum value in that table. Part 1 takes 6.7ms, part 2 19.2ms.

    Solution
    fn step(n: u32) -> u32 {
        let a = (n ^ (n << 6)) % (1 << 24);
        let b = a ^ (a >> 5);
        (b ^ (b << 11)) % (1 << 24)
    }
    
    fn part1(input: String) {
        let sum = input
            .lines()
            .map(|l| {
                let n = l.parse().unwrap();
                (0..2000).fold(n, |acc, _| step(acc)) as u64
            })
            // More than 2¹⁰ 24-bit numbers requires 35 bits
            .sum::<u64>();
        println!("{sum}");
    }
    
    const N_SEQUENCES: usize = 19usize.pow(4);
    
    fn sequence_key(sequence: &[i8]) -> usize {
        sequence
            .iter()
            .enumerate()
            .map(|(i, x)| (x + 9) as usize * 19usize.pow(i as u32))
            .sum()
    }
    
    fn part2(input: String) {
        // Table for collecting the amount of bananas for every possible sequence
        let mut table = vec![0; N_SEQUENCES];
        // Mark the sequences we encountered in a round to ensure that only the first occurence is used
        let mut seen = vec![false; N_SEQUENCES];
        for l in input.lines() {
            let n = l.parse().unwrap();
            let (diffs, prices): (Vec<i8>, Vec<u8>) = (0..2000)
                .scan(n, |acc, _| {
                    let next = step(*acc);
                    let diff = (next % 10) as i8 - (*acc % 10) as i8;
                    *acc = next;
                    Some((diff, (next % 10) as u8))
                })
                .unzip();
            for (window, price) in diffs.windows(4).zip(prices.iter().skip(3)) {
                let key = sequence_key(window);
                if !seen[key] {
                    seen[key] = true;
                    table[key] += *price as u32;
                }
            }
            // Reset seen sequences for next round
            seen.fill(false);
        }
        let bananas = table.iter().max().unwrap();
        println!("{bananas}");
    }
    
    util::aoc_main!();
    

    Also on github

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    Rust

    Not too hard today, apart from yesterday’s visit to a cocktail bar leaving me a little hazy in the mind.

    code
    use std::{fs, str::FromStr};
    
    use color_eyre::eyre::{Report, Result};
    use gxhash::{HashMap, HashMapExt};
    
    const SECRETS_PER_DAY: usize = 2000;
    const SEQ_LEN: usize = 4;
    
    type Sequence = [i8; SEQ_LEN];
    
    fn produce(n: usize) -> usize {
        let n = (n ^ (n * 64)) % 16777216;
        let n = (n ^ (n / 32)) % 16777216;
        (n ^ (n * 2048)) % 16777216
    }
    
    #[derive(Debug)]
    struct Buyer {
        prices: [u8; SECRETS_PER_DAY + 1],
        changes: [i8; SECRETS_PER_DAY],
    }
    
    impl Buyer {
        fn price_at_seq(&self, seq: &Sequence) -> Option<u8> {
            self.changes
                .windows(SEQ_LEN)
                .position(|win| win == *seq)
                .and_then(|i| self.price_for_window(i))
        }
    
        fn price_for_window(&self, i: usize) -> Option<u8> {
            self.prices.get(i + SEQ_LEN).copied()
        }
    }
    
    struct BananaMarket {
        buyers: Vec<Buyer>,
    }
    
    impl FromStr for BananaMarket {
        type Err = Report;
    
        fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self, Self::Err> {
            let buyer_seeds = s
                .lines()
                .map(|s| s.parse::<usize>())
                .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?;
    
            let buyers = buyer_seeds
                .into_iter()
                .map(|seed| {
                    let mut prices = [0; SECRETS_PER_DAY + 1];
                    let mut changes = [0; SECRETS_PER_DAY];
    
                    let mut secret = seed;
                    let mut price = (seed % 10) as u8;
                    prices[0] = price;
                    for i in 0..SECRETS_PER_DAY {
                        let last_price = price;
                        secret = produce(secret);
                        price = (secret % 10) as u8;
                        prices[i + 1] = price;
                        changes[i] = price as i8 - last_price as i8;
                    }
                    Buyer { prices, changes }
                })
                .collect();
            Ok(Self { buyers })
        }
    }
    
    impl BananaMarket {
        fn sell_with_seq(&self, seq: &Sequence) -> usize {
            self.buyers
                .iter()
                .map(|b| b.price_at_seq(seq).unwrap_or(0) as usize)
                .sum()
        }
    
        fn maximise_bananas(&self) -> usize {
            let mut cache: HashMap<Sequence, usize> = HashMap::new();
    
            for seq in self
                .buyers
                .iter()
                .flat_map(|buyer| buyer.changes.windows(SEQ_LEN))
            {
                let seq = seq.try_into().unwrap();
                cache.entry(seq).or_insert_with(|| self.sell_with_seq(&seq));
            }
    
            cache.into_values().max().unwrap_or(0)
        }
    }
    
    fn part1(filepath: &str) -> Result<usize> {
        let input = fs::read_to_string(filepath)?
            .lines()
            .map(|s| s.parse::<usize>())
            .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?;
        let res = input
            .into_iter()
            .map(|n| (0..SECRETS_PER_DAY).fold(n, |acc, _| produce(acc)))
            .sum();
        Ok(res)
    }
    
    fn part2(filepath: &str) -> Result<usize> {
        let input = fs::read_to_string(filepath)?;
        let market = BananaMarket::from_str(&input)?;
        Ok(market.maximise_bananas())
    }
    
    fn main() -> Result<()> {
        color_eyre::install()?;
    
        println!("Part 1: {}", part1("d22/input.txt")?);
        println!("Part 2: {}", part2("d22/input.txt")?);
        Ok(())
    }
    
  • VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world
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    Haskell

    I have no Idea how to optimize this and am looking forward to the other solutions that probably run in sub-single-second times. I like my solution because it was simple to write which I hadn’t managed in the previous days, runs in 17 seconds with no less than 100MB of RAM.

    import Control.Arrow
    import Data.Bits (xor)
    import Data.Ord (comparing)
    
    import qualified Data.List as List
    import qualified Data.Map as Map
    
    parse :: String -> [Int]
    parse = map read . filter (/= "") . lines
    
    mix = xor 
    prune = flip mod 16777216
    priceof = flip mod 10
    
    nextSecret step0 = do
            let step1 = prune . mix step0 $ step0 * 64
            let step2 = prune . mix step1 $ step1 `div` 32
            let step3 = prune . mix step2 $ step2 * 2048
            step3
    
    part1 = sum . map (head . drop 2000 . iterate nextSecret)
    part2 = map (iterate nextSecret
                    >>> take 2001
                    >>> map priceof
                    >>> (id &&& tail)
                    >>> uncurry (zipWith (curry (uncurry (flip (-)) &&& snd)))
                    >>> map (take 4) . List.tails
                    >>> filter ((==4) . length)
                    >>> map (List.map fst &&& snd . List.last)
                    >>> List.foldl (\ m (s, p) -> Map.insertWith (flip const) s p m) Map.empty
                    )
            >>> Map.unionsWith (+)
            >>> Map.assocs
            >>> List.maximumBy (comparing snd)
    
    main = getContents
            >>= print
            . (part1 &&& part2)
            . parse
    
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      Haha, same! Mine runs in a bit under 4s compiled, but uses a similar 100M-ish peak. Looks like we used the same method.

      Maybe iterate all the secrets in parallel, and keep a running note of the best sequences so far? I’m not sure how you’d decide when to throw away old candidates, though. Sequences might match one buyer early and another really late.

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    Haskell

    solution
    import Control.Arrow
    import Data.Bits
    import Data.List
    import qualified Data.Map as M
    
    parse = fmap (secretNums . read) . lines
    
    secretNums :: Int -> [Int]
    secretNums = take 2001 . iterate (step1 >>> step2 >>> step3)
     where
      step1 n = ((n `shiftL` 06) `xor` n) .&. 0xFFFFFF
      step2 n = ((n `shiftR` 05) `xor` n) .&. 0xFFFFFF
      step3 n = ((n `shiftL` 11) `xor` n) .&. 0xFFFFFF
    
    part1 = sum . fmap last
    part2 = maximum . M.elems . M.unionsWith (+) . fmap (deltas . fmap (`mod` 10))
    
    deltas l = M.fromListWith (\n p -> p) $ flip zip (drop 4 l) $ zip4 diffs (tail diffs) (drop 2 diffs) (drop 3 diffs)
     where
      diffs = zipWith (-) (tail l) l
    
    main = getContents >>= print . (part1 &&& part2) . parse
    
  • CameronDev@programming.devOPM
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    Rust

    Part 2 is crazy slow, but it works, so thats cool :D

    Edit: Gonna fix this, because pt2 is stupid.

    Much better, 2.4s. Still slow, but not 6 minutes slow.

    #[cfg(test)]
    mod tests {
        use std::collections::HashMap;
        use std::iter::zip;
    
        fn step(start: usize) -> usize {
            let mut next = start;
            next = ((next * 64) ^ next) % 16777216;
            next = ((next / 32) ^ next) % 16777216;
            next = ((next * 2048) ^ next) % 16777216;
            next
        }
    
        fn simulate(initial: usize) -> usize {
            let mut next = initial;
            for _ in 0..2000 {
                next = step(next);
            }
            next
        }
        #[test]
        fn test_step() {
            assert_eq!(15887950, step(123));
        }
        #[test]
        fn test_simulate() {
            assert_eq!(8685429, simulate(1));
        }
    
        #[test]
        fn day22_part1_test() {
            let input = std::fs::read_to_string("src/input/day_22.txt").unwrap();
            let initial_values = input
                .split("\n")
                .map(|s| s.parse::<usize>().unwrap())
                .collect::<Vec<usize>>();
    
            let mut total = 0;
    
            for value in initial_values {
                total += simulate(value);
            }
    
            println!("{}", total);
        }
    
        #[test]
        fn day22_part2_test() {
            let input = std::fs::read_to_string("src/input/day_22.txt").unwrap();
            let initial_values = input
                .split("\n")
                .map(|s| s.parse::<usize>().unwrap())
                .collect::<Vec<usize>>();
    
            let mut all_deltas = vec![];
            let mut all_values = vec![];
    
            for value in initial_values {
                let mut deltas = String::with_capacity(2000);
                let mut values = vec![];
                let mut prev = value;
                for _ in 0..2000 {
                    let next = step(prev);
                    values.push(next % 10);
                    deltas.push((10u8 + b'A' + ((prev % 10) as u8) - ((next % 10) as u8)) as char);
                    prev = next;
                }
    
                all_deltas.push(deltas);
                all_values.push(values);
            }
    
            let mut totals = HashMap::with_capacity(100000);
    
            for (delta, value) in zip(&all_deltas, &all_values) {
                let mut cache = HashMap::with_capacity(2000);
                for j in 0..delta.len() - 4 {
                    let seq = &delta[j..j + 4];
                    let bananas = value[j + 3];
                    cache.entry(seq).or_insert(bananas);
                }
                for (key, value) in cache {
                    *totals.entry(key).or_insert(0) += value;
                }
            }
    
            let max_bananas = totals.values().max().unwrap();
    
            println!("{}", max_bananas);
        }
    }
    
    
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      Six minutes? 😅 I was feeling crappy about my 30 seconds (my naive big O cubed(?) logic means my code spends most of its time testing array equalities - 72 billion samples in the flamegraph!)

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    Go

    Re-familiarizing myself with Go. The solution to Part 2 is fairly simply, the whole packing of the sequence into a single integer to save on memory was an optimization I did afterwards based on looking at other solutions. I thought it was cool.

    package main
    
    import (
    	"bufio"
    	"fmt"
    	"os"
    	"strconv"
    )
    
    type SequenceMap struct {
    	Data map[int32]int
    }
    
    func PackSeq(numbers [4]int8) int32 {
    	var packed int32
    	for i, num := range numbers {
    		packed |= int32(num+9) << (i * 5)
    	}
    	return packed
    }
    
    func UnpackSeq(packed int32) [4]int8 {
    	var numbers [4]int8
    	for i := range numbers {
    		numbers[i] = int8((packed>>(i*5))&0x1F) - 9
    	}
    	return numbers
    }
    
    func NewSequenceMap() SequenceMap {
    	return SequenceMap{make(map[int32]int)}
    }
    
    func (m *SequenceMap) Increment(seq [4]int8, val int) {
    	pSeq := PackSeq(seq)
    	acc, ok := m.Data[pSeq]
    	if ok {
    		m.Data[pSeq] = acc + val
    	} else {
    		m.Data[pSeq] = val
    	}
    }
    
    func (m *SequenceMap) Has(seq [4]int8) bool {
    	pSeq := PackSeq(seq)
    	_, ok := m.Data[pSeq]
    	return ok
    }
    
    type Generator struct {
    	Secret         int64
    	LastPrice      int8
    	ChangeSequence []int8
    }
    
    func NewGenerator(Secret int64) Generator {
    	var ChangeSequence []int8
    	return Generator{Secret, int8(Secret % 10), ChangeSequence}
    }
    
    func (g *Generator) Mix(value int64) *Generator {
    	g.Secret = g.Secret ^ value
    	return g
    }
    
    func (g *Generator) Prune() *Generator {
    	g.Secret = g.Secret % 16777216
    	return g
    }
    
    func (g *Generator) Next() {
    	g.Mix(g.Secret * 64).Prune().Mix(g.Secret / 32).Prune().Mix(g.Secret * 2048).Prune()
    	Price := int8(g.Secret % 10)
    	g.ChangeSequence = append(g.ChangeSequence, Price-g.LastPrice)
    	g.LastPrice = Price
    	if len(g.ChangeSequence) > 4 {
    		g.ChangeSequence = g.ChangeSequence[1:]
    	}
    }
    
    func ParseInput() []int64 {
    	if fileInfo, _ := os.Stdin.Stat(); (fileInfo.Mode() & os.ModeCharDevice) != 0 {
    		fmt.Println("This program expects input from stdin.")
    		os.Exit(1)
    	}
    	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(os.Stdin)
    
    	var numbers []int64
    	for scanner.Scan() {
    		line := scanner.Text()
    		num, err := strconv.ParseInt(line, 10, 64)
    		if err != nil {
    			fmt.Printf("ERROR PARSING VALUE: %s\n", line)
    			os.Exit(1)
    		}
    		numbers = append(numbers, num)
    	}
    
    	return numbers
    }
    
    func main() {
    	numbers := ParseInput()
    
    	m := NewSequenceMap()
    	sum := int64(0)
    
    	for i := 0; i < len(numbers); i += 1 {
    		g := NewGenerator(numbers[i])
    		tM := NewSequenceMap()
    		for j := 0; j < 2000; j += 1 {
    			g.Next()
    			if len(g.ChangeSequence) == 4 {
    				if !tM.Has([4]int8(g.ChangeSequence)) {
    					tM.Increment([4]int8(g.ChangeSequence), 1)
    					if g.LastPrice > 0 {
    						m.Increment([4]int8(g.ChangeSequence), int(g.LastPrice))
    					}
    				}
    			}
    		}
    		sum += g.Secret
    	}
    
    	fmt.Printf("Part One: %d\n", sum)
    
    	var bestSeq [4]int8
    	bestPrice := 0
    	for pSeq, price := range m.Data {
    		if price > bestPrice {
    			bestPrice = price
    			bestSeq = UnpackSeq(pSeq)
    		}
    	}
    
    	fmt.Printf("Part Two: %d\n", bestPrice)
    	fmt.Printf("Best Sequence: %d\n", bestSeq)
    }
    
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    Dart

    Well, that was certainly a bit easier than yesterday…

    I know running a window over each full list of 2000 prices rather than looking for cycles etc means I’m doing a lot of unnecessary work, but it only takes a couple of seconds, so that’ll do.

    import 'package:collection/collection.dart';
    import 'package:more/more.dart';
    
    rng(int i) {
      i = ((i << 6) ^ i) % 16777216;
      i = ((i >> 5) ^ i) % 16777216;
      i = ((i << 11) ^ i) % 16777216;
      return i;
    }
    
    Iterable<int> getPrices(int val, int rounds) {
      var ret = [val];
      for (var _ in 1.to(rounds)) {
        ret.add(val = rng(val));
      }
      return ret.map((e) => e % 10);
    }
    
    int run(int val, int rounds) => 0.to(rounds).fold(val, (s, t) => s = rng(s));
    part1(lines) => [for (var i in lines.map(int.parse)) run(i, 2000)].sum;
    
    part2(List<String> lines) {
      var market = <int, int>{}.withDefault(0);
      for (var seed in lines.map(int.parse)) {
        var seen = <int>{};
        for (var w in getPrices(seed, 2000).window(5)) {
          var key = // Can't use lists as keys, so make cheap hash.
              w.window(2).map((e) => e[1] - e[0]).reduce((s, t) => (s << 4) + t);
          if (seen.contains(key)) continue;
          seen.add(key);
          market[key] += w.last;
        }
      }
      return market.values.max;
    }
    
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    C

    Really proud of this one! Started with with an O(n^atoms in the universe) scan which took 44s even after adding a dedup check.

    But iterating on a trick to encode the deltas for the dedup check, using it to build a mapping table here, a lookup there etc brought it down to a very fast, fairly low memory, linear complexity solution!

    Code
    #include "common.h"
    
    #define STEPS	2000
    #define NCODES	(19*19*19*19)
    
    int
    main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
    	static int8_t prices[STEPS];
    	static int8_t by_deltas[NCODES];
    	static int sums[NCODES];
    
    	uint64_t p1=0, secret;
    	int p2=0, i;
    
    	if (argc > 1)
    		DISCARD(freopen(argv[1], "r", stdin));
    	
    	while (scanf(" %"SCNu64, &secret) == 1) {
    		memset(by_deltas, 0, sizeof(by_deltas));
    
    		for (i=0; i<STEPS; i++) {
    			secret = (secret ^ secret << 6)  & 0xFFFFFF;
    			secret = (secret ^ secret >> 5);
    			secret = (secret ^ secret << 11) & 0xFFFFFF;
    
    			prices[i] = secret % 10;
    		}
    
    		/*
    		 * Build a deltas->price map for the buyer. Deltas are
    		 * encoded as an integer for easy indexing. Iterating
    		 * backwards ensures the stored price is the _earliest_
    		 * occurence of that sequence.
    		 */
    		for (i=STEPS-1; i>=4; i--)
    			by_deltas[
    			    (prices[i-3] - prices[i-4] +9) *19*19*19 +
    			    (prices[i-2] - prices[i-3] +9) *19*19 +
    			    (prices[i-1] - prices[i-2] +9) *19 +
    			    (prices[i]   - prices[i-1] +9)
    			] = prices[i];
    
    		for (i=0; i<NCODES; i++)
    			sums[i] += by_deltas[i];
    
    		p1 += secret;
    	}
    
    	for (i=0; i<NCODES; i++)
    		p2 = MAX(p2, sums[i]);
    
    	printf("22: %"PRIu64" %d\n", p1, p2);
    	return 0;
    }
    

    day22 0m00.04s real

    https://codeberg.org/sjmulder/aoc/src/branch/master/2024/c/day22.c

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    Haskell

    A nice easy one today; shame I couldn’t start on time. I had a go at refactoring to reduce the peak memory usage, but it just ended up a mess. Here’s a tidy version.

    import Data.Bits
    import Data.List
    import Data.Map (Map)
    import Data.Map qualified as Map
    
    next :: Int -> Int
    next = flip (foldl' (\x n -> (x `xor` shift x n) .&. 0xFFFFFF)) [6, -5, 11]
    
    bananaCounts :: Int -> Map [Int] Int
    bananaCounts seed =
      let secrets = iterate next seed
          prices = map (`mod` 10) secrets
          changes = zipWith (-) (drop 1 prices) prices
          sequences = map (take 4) $ tails changes
       in Map.fromListWith (const id) $
            take 2000 (zip sequences (drop 4 prices))
    
    main = do
      input <- map read . lines <$> readFile "input22"
      print . sum $ map ((!! 2000) . iterate next) input
      print . maximum $ Map.unionsWith (+) $ map bananaCounts input
    
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    Hey there lemmy, I recently transitioned from using notepad to Visual Studio Code along with running a local LLM for autocomplete(faster than copilot, big plus but hot af room)

    I was able to make this python script with a bunch of fancy comments and typing silliness. I ended up spamming so many comments. yay documentation! lol

    Solve time: ~3 seconds (can swing up to 5 seconds)

    Code
    from tqdm import tqdm
    from os.path import dirname,isfile,realpath,join
    
    from collections.abc import Callable
    def profiler(method) -> Callable[..., any]:
        from time import perf_counter_ns
        def wrapper_method(*args: any, **kwargs: any) -> any:
            start_time = perf_counter_ns()
            ret = method(*args, **kwargs)
            stop_time = perf_counter_ns() - start_time
            time_len = min(9, ((len(str(stop_time))-1)//3)*3)
            time_conversion = {9: 'seconds', 6: 'milliseconds', 3: 'microseconds', 0: 'nanoseconds'}
            print(f"Method {method.__name__} took : {stop_time / (10**time_len)} {time_conversion[time_len]}")
            return ret
        return wrapper_method
    
    # Process a secret to a new secret number
    # @param n: The secret number to be processed
    # @return: The new secret number after processing
    def process_secret(n: int) -> int:
        """ 
        Process a secret number by XORing it with the result of shifting left and right operations on itself. 
        The process involves several bitwise operations to ensure that the resulting number is different from the original one.
        
        First, multiply the original secret number by 64 with a left bit shift, then XOR the original secret number with the new number and prune to get a new secret number
        Second, divide the previous secret number by 32 with a right bit shift, then XOR the previous secret number with the new number and prune to get another new secret number
        Third, multiply the previous secret number by 2048 with a left bit shift, then XOR the previous secret number with the new number and prune to get the final secret number
        Finally, return the new secret number after these operations.
    
        """
        n ^= (n << 6) 
        n &= 0xFFFFFF
        n ^= (n >> 5)
        n &= 0xFFFFFF
        n ^= (n << 11)
        return n & 0xFFFFFF
    
    # Solve Part 1 and Part 2 of the challenge at the same time
    @profiler
    def solve(secrets: list[int]) -> tuple[int, int]:
        # Build a dictionary for each buyer with the tuple of changes being the key and the sum of prices of the earliest occurrence for each buyer as the value
        # At the same time we solve Part 1 of the challenge by adding the last price for each secret
        last_price_sum = 0
        changes_map = {}
        for start_secret in (secrets):
            # Keep track of seen patterns for current secret
            changes_seen = set()
            # tuple of last 4 changes
            # first change is 0 because it is ignored
            last_four_changes = tuple([
                                        (cur_secret:=process_secret(start_secret)), 
                                       -(cur_secret%10) + ((cur_secret:=process_secret(cur_secret)) % 10) , 
                                       -(cur_secret%10) + ((cur_secret:=process_secret(cur_secret)) % 10) , 
                                       -(cur_secret%10) + ((cur_secret:=process_secret(cur_secret)) % 10) 
                                       ]
                                       )
            current_price = sum(last_four_changes)
            # Map 4-tuple of changes -> sum of prices index of earliest occurrence for all secrets
            for i in range(3, 1999):
                # sliding window of last four changes
                last_four_changes = (*last_four_changes[1:], -(cur_secret%10) + (current_price := (cur_secret:=process_secret(cur_secret)) % 10) )
                # if we have seen this pattern before, then we continue to next four changes
                # otherwise, we add the price to the mapped value
                # this ensures we only add the first occurence of a patten for each list of prices each secret produces
                if last_four_changes not in changes_seen:
                    # add to the set of seen patterns for this buyer
                    changes_seen.add(last_four_changes)
                    # If not recorded yet, store the price
                    # i+4 is the index of the price where we sell
                    changes_map[last_four_changes] = changes_map.get(last_four_changes, 0) + current_price
    
            # Sum the 2000th price to the total sum for all secrets
            last_price_sum += cur_secret
        # Return the sum of all prices at the 2000th iteration and the maximum amount of bananas that one pattern can obtain
        return last_price_sum,max(changes_map.values())
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        # Read buyers' initial secrets from file or define them here
        BASE_DIR = dirname(realpath(__file__))
        with open(join(BASE_DIR, r'input'), "r") as f:
            secrets = [int(x) for x in f.read().split()]
        last_price_sum,best_score = solve(secrets)
        print("Part 1:")
        print(f"sum of each of the 2000th secret number:", last_price_sum)
        print("Part 2:")
        print("Max bananas for one of patterns:", best_score)
    
    
    • CameronDev@programming.devOPM
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      7 days ago

      Bit odd having main() returning an actual value, probably would have named it something else, otherwise, nicely documented solution.

      I bet VSC is a lot nicer to work in than notepad :D

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        you have a point to call name it something else, but lazy to do that. should I simply call it solve() maybe, that would work fine.
        I do want to note that having it return a value is not unheard of, it is just part of being lazy with the naming of the functions.
        I definitely would not have the code outside of main() be included in the main function as it is just something to grab the input pass it to the solver function( main in this case, but as you noted should be called something else ) and print out the results. if you imported it as a module, then you can call main() with any input and get back the results to do whatever you want with. Just something I think makes the code better to look at and use.

        While doing this is highly unnecessary for these challenge, I wish to keep a little bit of proper syntax than just writing the script with everything at the top level. It feels dirty.

        Coding in notepad was a bit brutal, but I stuck with notepad for years and never really cared because I copy pasta quite a bit from documentation or what not.(now a days, gpt helps me fix my shit code, now that hallucinations are reduced decently) even with VSCode, I don’t pay attention to many of its features. I still kinda treat it as a text editor, but extra nagging on top.(nagging is a positive I guess, but I am an ape who gives little fucks) I do like VSCode having a workspace explorer on the side. I dislike needing to alt-tab to various open file explorer windows. Having tabs for open files is really nice, too.

        VSCode is nice, and running my Qwen-coder-1.5B locally is neat for helping somethings out. Not like I rely on it for helping with coding, but rather use it for comments or sometimes I stop to think or sometimes the autocomplete is updated in realtime while I am typing. really neat stuff, I think running locally is better than copilot because of it just being more real-time than the latency with interacting with MS servers. though I do think about all the random power it is using and extra waste heat from me constantly typing and it having to constantly keep up with the new context.

        The quality took a little hit with the smaller model than just copilot, but so far it is not bad at all for things I expect it to help with. It definitely is capable of helping out. I do get annoyed when the autocomplete tries too hard to help by generating a lot more stuff that I don’t want.(even if the first part of what it generated is what I wanted but the rest is not) thankfully, that is not too often.
        I give the local llm is helping with 70% of the comments and 15% of the code on average but it is not too consistent for the code.
        For python, there is not enough syntax overhead to worry about and the autocomplete isn’t needed as much.

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          Its normal for main to return a value, its just usually a status thing, rather than actual data. But given python doesn’t really treat main as anything special, it hardly matters