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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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A small PSA, mainly for myself - #pymongo surprised me today by adding a key to the input dictionary I supplied the insert_one method: https://kimvanwyk.co.za/til_250420_1/
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I may be the last person on earth to figure this out, but in case I'm not: AWS #cloudwatch logs can be monitored with the AWS cli:
aws logs tail GROUP_NAMEThis is a lot more pleasant an experience than the web console for cloudwatch, which will (in my SSO based work experience) log you out if you dare to look away from the screen for a second or possibly have the temerity to need to blink.
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Over de selectieve verontwaardiging van rechts bij politieke moorden.
#petjeAf #KimVanKekenhttps://petjeaf.com/kimvankeken/posts/politieke-moorden-tellen-alleen-als-ze-je-uitkomen
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Over de selectieve verontwaardiging van rechts bij politieke moorden.
#petjeAf #KimVanKekenhttps://petjeaf.com/kimvankeken/posts/politieke-moorden-tellen-alleen-als-ze-je-uitkomen
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Over de selectieve verontwaardiging van rechts bij politieke moorden.
#petjeAf #KimVanKekenhttps://petjeaf.com/kimvankeken/posts/politieke-moorden-tellen-alleen-als-ze-je-uitkomen
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Over de selectieve verontwaardiging van rechts bij politieke moorden.
#petjeAf #KimVanKekenhttps://petjeaf.com/kimvankeken/posts/politieke-moorden-tellen-alleen-als-ze-je-uitkomen
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Over de selectieve verontwaardiging van rechts bij politieke moorden.
#petjeAf #KimVanKekenhttps://petjeaf.com/kimvankeken/posts/politieke-moorden-tellen-alleen-als-ze-je-uitkomen
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"Yesilgöz sluit 46 zetels uit, bijna een derde van de kiezers. Als een linkse partij dat zou doen, zou ze zeggen: ‘die neemt de kiezer niet serieus’. De VVD is de vleesgeworden arrogantie van de macht en denkt van twee walletjes te kunnen eten."
Kim van Keken @kimvankeken.bsky.social op BS) #informatie #yesilgoz
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel/5537314/pvver-wilders-wil-meeregeren-sluit-geen-partijen-uit -
Iemand verbaasd? #Dijkhoff #VVD
"VVD’er Klaas Dijkhoff, de man van ‘het stille midden’ en de strijd tegen populisten, hielp Dick Schoof zijn innerlijke premier te vinden.
Dijkhoff toonde zich voor de bühne tegen een coalitie van PVV, VVD, NSC en BBB. Achter de schermen werkte hij gedwee mee om het gezicht van zo’n kabinet vleugels te geven.
De kassa van zijn campagnebureau SUE & The Alchemists moet immers óók rinkelen."https://petjeaf.com/kimvankeken/posts/de-marktmeesters-van-het-midden
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"Wie even wil lachen, moet even café Kockelmann met Logtenberg terugkijken met de kennis van nu.
Was het een privé-appje?
Heel zacht murmelend: ‘nja.’ ‘Belangrijker is de inhoud’."(Draadje van Kim van Keken @kimvankeken.bsky.social op BS) @nrc_nl #Logtenberg
https://tbsky.app/profile/kimvankeken.bsky.social/post/3m6qvfmpldc2k -
#petjeAf Kim!
"De VVD en de mythe over de hardwerkende Nederlander"
https://petjeaf.com/kimvankeken/posts/kent-u-die-mop-over-de-hardwerkende-nederlander
