Could you elaborate on how information is the noumena?

That’s just a comment

Very informative. Thank you!

It does. Empty collections, 0, None

What do you think it is?

How does that work?

This is amazing, thank you! You’ve given me a lot to think about, not just with respect to this program, but what sort of things to consider when analyzing the behavior of any program. Describing the classes of input like you did was enlightening.

I added a description to OP.

Gambler (PROGRAM 1.3.8) is a simulation that can help answer these questions. It does a sequence of trials, using Math.random() to simulate the sequence of bets, continuing until the gambler is broke or the goal is reached, and keeping track of the number of wins and the number of bets.

Were you able to transfer those concepts you learned from clojure to other languages?

thank you! your command worked like a charm once i prepended it with exec. i even added a final command taking me back to workspace 1. tested it with exec_always and it seems to be good, crossing fingers it will actually work on boot.

maybe you can answer another question for me: is the config file executed asynchronously? What i mean is, does it run through each line, or is there a chance that, say, line 25 might execute before line 13?

The jank is kind of severe, but I like what they’re trying to do. Still, I keep meaning to make a bug report, because I cant right click on the tab bare without the browser crashing more than half the time.

short variable names, and the only vowel is ‘i’

Metaservices.

Rust is a psyop

I think the default mod key is the ‘super’ key (formerly known as the windows key). It might be alt actually, I don’t remember. Super + 1-9 switches between workspaces, which hold your windows. Shift + super + 1-9 moves a window to another workspace. you can find more key bindings by viewing $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sway/config (or wherever config files go on your system).

I think those are more interesting. I like seeing the process.

That’s kindeof poetic tbh

Python

(Part 1) omg I can’t believe this actually worked first try!

with open('input') as data:
    parts = data.read().rstrip().split("\n\n")
    ordering_rules = parts[0].split("\n")
    updates = parts[1].split("\n")

correct_updates = []
middle_updates = []

def find_relevant_rules(pg_num: str, rules: list[str]) -> list[str] | None:
    for rule in rules:
        return list(filter(lambda x: x.split("|")[0] == pg_num, rules))

def interpret_rule(rule: str) -> list[str]:
    return rule.split("|")

def interpret_update(update: str) -> list[str]:
    return update.split(",")

def find_middle_update_index(update: list[str]) -> int:
    num_of_elements = len(update)
    return num_of_elements // 2

for update in updates:
    is_correct = True
    for i, page in enumerate(interpret_update(update)):
       rules_to_check = find_relevant_rules(page, ordering_rules) 
       for rule in rules_to_check:
           if rule.split("|")[1] in interpret_update(update)[:i]:
               is_correct = False
    if is_correct:
        correct_updates.append(update)

for update in correct_updates:
    split_update = update.split(",")
    middle_updates.append(int(split_update[find_middle_update_index(split_update)]))
print(sum(middle_updates))

Part 1:

with open('input') as data:
    lines = [l.strip() for l in data.readlines()]
# Remove empty line
class Result():
    def __init__(self):
        self.count = 0


def analyze_lines(lines: list[str]):
    ans.count += get_rights(lines)
    ans.count += get_ups(lines)
    ans.count += get_downs(lines)
    ans.count += get_down_rights(lines)
    ans.count += get_down_lefts(lines)
    ans.count += get_up_lefts(lines)
    ans.count += get_up_rights(lines)
    for line in lines:
        ans.count += get_lefts(line)




def get_ups(lines: list[str]) -> int:
    up_count = 0
    for i_l, line in enumerate(lines):
        result = ""
        if i_l < 3:
            continue
        for i_c, char in enumerate(line):
            if char == "X":
                result = char
                result += "".join([lines[i_l - n][i_c] for n in range(1, 4)])
                if result == "XMAS":
                    up_count += 1
                else:
                    result = ""
    return up_count


def get_downs(lines: list[str]) -> int:
    down_count = 0
    for i_l, l in enumerate(lines):
        result = ""
        for i_c, c in enumerate(l):
            if c == "X":
                result += c
                try:
                    result += "".join([lines[i_l + n][i_c] for n in range(1, 4)])
                except IndexError:
                    result = ""
                    continue
                finally:
                    if result == "XMAS":
                        down_count += 1
                    result = ""
    return down_count


        
def get_lefts(line: str) -> int:
    left_count = 0
    for i, char in enumerate(line):
        if i < 3:
            continue
        elif char == "X" and line[i-1] == "M" and line[i-2] == "A" and line[i-3] == "S":
            left_count += 1
    return left_count


def get_rights(lines: list[str]) -> int:
    right_counts = 0
    for l in lines:
        right_counts += l.count("XMAS")
    return right_counts

def get_down_rights(lines: list[str]) -> int:
    down_right_count = 0
    for i_l, l in enumerate(lines):
        result = ""
        for i_c, c in enumerate(l):
            if c == "X":
                result += c
                try:
                    result += "".join(
                            [lines[i_l + n][i_c + n] for n in range(1,4)]
                            )
                except IndexError:
                    result = ""
                    continue
                finally:
                    if result == "XMAS":
                        down_right_count += 1
                    result = ""
    return down_right_count

def get_down_lefts(lines: list[str]) -> int:
    down_left_count = 0
    for i_l, l in enumerate(lines):
        result = ""
        for i_c, c in enumerate(l):
            if i_c < 3:
                continue
            if c == "X":
                result += c
                try:
                    result += "".join(
                            [lines[i_l + n][i_c - n] for n in range(1,4)]
                            )
                except IndexError:
                    result = ""
                    continue
                finally:
                    if result == "XMAS":
                        down_left_count += 1
                    result = ""
    return down_left_count

def get_up_rights(lines: list[str]) -> int:
    up_right_count = 0
    for i_l, l in enumerate(lines):
        result = ""
        if i_l < 3:
            continue
        for i_c, c in enumerate(l):
            if c == "X":
                result += c
                try:
                    result += "".join(
                            [lines[i_l - n][i_c + n] for n in range(1,4)]
                            )
                except IndexError:
                    result = ""
                    continue
                finally:
                    if result == "XMAS":
                        up_right_count += 1
                    result = ""
    return up_right_count


def get_up_lefts(lines: list[str]) -> int:
    up_left_count = 0
    for i_l, l in enumerate(lines):
        result = ""
        if i_l < 3:
            continue
        for i_c, c in enumerate(l):
            if i_c < 3:
                continue
            if c == "X":
                result = c
                try:
                    result += "".join(
                            [lines[i_l - n][i_c - n] for n in range(1,4)]
                            )
                except IndexError as e:
                    result = ""
                    continue
                finally:
                    if result == "XMAS":
                        up_left_count += 1
                    result = ""
    return up_left_count

ans = Result()
analyze_lines(lines)
print(ans.count)

Part 2:

with open('input') as data:
    lines = list(filter(lambda x: x != '', [l.strip() for l in data.readlines()]))
    
xmases = 0
for i in range(1, len(lines)):
    for j in range(1, len(lines[i])):
        if lines[i][j] == "A":
            try:
                up_back = lines[i-1][j-1]
                down_over = lines[i+1][j+1]
                up_over = lines[i-1][j+1]
                down_back = lines[i+1][j-1]
            except IndexError:
                continue
            else:
                if {up_back, down_over} == set("MS") and {up_over, down_back} == set("MS"):
                    xmases += 1

print(xmases)

I actually found part two A LOT easier than part 1.

I needed to read this. Thank you.