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@Lownewulf @PHolder Agreed. Also, Topaz does this most years - there'll be a strong theme... A couple years ago almost every-other-challenge after day 9 had us improve upon this programming language interpreter/microprocessor simulator thing.

This has been the year of "search" for me, or even breadth-first search mostly.

@3j0hn This is great - it really makes it feel cold and forbidding. I wouldn't want to be in that little red dot.

#AdventOfCode Day 24 - very pleasant. Especially after breaking the brain on cubes and such. Feels like the end of a long run where you are just cooling down and finishing.

Maybe I'll go for a run now!

@gabmus @tommerty #Hugo crowd checking in. I use someone else's theme on the blog, but my own theme elsewhere.

I used to use WP. I got tired of wondering whether I was hacked.

And todays #AdventOfCode was fun but (part 2) extremely painful.

@albnelson Wow. Those shipping containers look fun and easy to climb!

That's a pretty great little poem I think, and the prompt I used was exactly as stated above starting with "please". Then after the first two stanzas I asked, "Please continue it further.", and it wrote the rest.

#ChatGPT seems to know about recent world events here - but I did tell it to consider Twitter "out of control". I did not explain what a social network was, and I did not capitalize Mastodon in my prompt, but it seems to know both.

There once was a social network grand
Called Mastodon, run by a man
#JohnMastodon was his name
And he ran things with great fame
On his platform, all were welcomed, not banned

Twitter, on the other hand
Was run by a man named Elmo
And on his platform, chaos would flow
The tweets flew fast and wild
As the rules and order were reviled
On Twitter, all were free to go.

But Mastodon was a different kind
Where users could speak their mind
#JohnMastodon led with care
Creating a platform that was fair
For all who wished to share and find

Twitter, on the other hand
Was a platform out of control
Elmo just let it unfold
As chaos and drama were the norm
On Twitter, it was a storm
But Mastodon remained calm

So if you want a place to connect
Where you can share without regret
Where the rules are fair and just
Mastodon is a must
But if you want to watch the world combust
Twitter's the one, without a doubt
But just be prepared to be left in doubt
As to what's real and what's not, no doubt.

Never got a response to this one, perhaps that's not how the bot @multiset works. I did go to chatgpt and got a response...

Today's #AdventOfCode was a joy. Thank you Topaz.

@multiset please write me a limerick about how fantastic the mastodon social network is under the leadership of John Mastodon, and how out of control Twitter is under the leadership of Elmo. When you refer to John Mastodon please do it like #JohnMastodon

And here is a guy who has figured out a considerably better way to solve #AdventOfCode day 16. Lots of spoilers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zo21au/comment/j0nz8df/?context=3

It's that comment by zopatista that I'm talking about.

@EinPhysiker You're better than me - mine took 20 minutes to run (Python).

#AdventOfCode Day 16 was a doozy and took me a while because I tried a "dynamic programming" solution when I (think I) shouldn't have. Oh well! Got it in the end:
https://blog.notmet.net/2022/12/advent-of-code-2022-day-16/