The Advent of Code - how close am I to the Leaderboard?

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THE ADVENT OF CODE HOW CLOSE AM I TO THE LEADERBOARD?

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Co-organizer of PyLadies Hamburg Board member of Python Software Verband Art: tiyepyep Past: L3S, New Work, Free Now TEREZA IOFCIU HEAD COACH DATA SCIENCE @NEUEFISCHE

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AOC DAILY DOSE OF CODING CHALLENGE EVERY DEC 2015 - 2020

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AOC 2020 MANY START .. FEW FINISH THIS IS NOT CHOCOLATE

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THE LEADERBOARD TOP 100 WHO FINISH BOTH TASKS

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MY AOC I DIDN’T TRACK TIME .. BUT I DID START AT 6 AM SOME DAYS… 4 … 6 MINS THEM VS 3 HOURS ME 5 … 5 MINS THEM VS 51 MINS ME 6 … 4 MINS THEM VS 31 MINS ME 8 … 7 MINS THEM VS 1H23 ME 9 … 6 MINS THEM VS 1H ME

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Some famous tweet

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52 HLTK 94 GENGKEV 97 MATTR555 … TEREZAIF …JANJAGUSCH

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I THOUGHT FASTER CODERS .. WRITE LESS CODE

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@TEREZAIF

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I WAS CONVINCED THERE WAS A PATTERN IN THE DIFFICULTY.. LIKE THURSDAYS WERE HARDER.. AND SATURDAYS TOO.. AND IT WAS GETTING HARDER IN GENERAL

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@TEREZAIF

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Some famous tweet

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WHAT DOES THE LEADERBOARD SAY? IS DAY 10 THE SWITCH TO FULL TIME JOB?

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@TEREZAIF What does the leaderboard say? Is day 10 the switch to full time job?

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@TEREZAIF Oh but wait

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FOR WHATEVER REASON.. I ALWAYS FEEL BAD WHEN I WRITE AN IF/ELSE STATEMENT.. I FEEL I SHOULD OPTIMISE

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@TEREZAIF Cyclomatic complexity .. simpli f ied

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COMPETITIVE CODERS MUST BE DOING SOME PYTHON MAGIC.. LET’S LOOK AT THE SYNTAX

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@TEREZAIF I wanted to play around with ALTAIR .. also it seems the one who wrote least code did more imports

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@TEREZAIF HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/HLTK/ADVENTOFCODE IMPORTS aocd re operator functools collections Itertools .. and .. more_itertools parse sympy.ntheory.modular networkx -> day 16, 21 .. classical bipartite graphs math dataclasses

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@TEREZAIF WHAT I HAVE LEARNED aocd parse & re & https://pythex.org how do deep copy arrays when to set, dict or list

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IF IT IS SLOW.. YOU HAVEN’T FOUND THE RIGHT ALGORITHM DON’T BRUTE FORCE THE CODE

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@TEREZAIF PYTHON NEXT HLTK - day 25 Terezaif - day 25 And pow has a z option?!?!?!

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THE HIGHLIGHT “MET” THE CREATOR