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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)
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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago

re: day 14 part 2

I had nfc how to solve this but someoone on the subreddit mentioned that miminizine the "safety score" was the way to go too ... I guess your explanation is the correct one. Also the way the puzzle is generated is to start with the tree and go "backwards" a couple of thousand steps and use a number of of those as starting positions. Probably throw in some random robots as noise.