Day 14: Restroom Redoubt
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J
Had to actually render output! What is this “user interface” of which you speak?
J doesn’t have meaningful identifiers for system interfaces built into the core language because why would you ever do that. It’s all routed through the “foreign conjunction” !:. There are aliases in the library, like fread, but if the documentation gives a list of all of them, I haven’t found it. We’re doing 1980 style system calls by number here. 1 !: 2 is write(), so x (1 !: 2) 2 writes x (which must be a list of characters) to stdout. (6 !: 3) y is sleep for y seconds.
It’s inefficient to compute, but I looked for low spots in the mean distance between robots to find the pattern for part 2. The magic numbers (11 and 101) were derived by staring at the entire series for a little bit.
load 'regex'
data_file_name =: '14.data'
raw =: cutopen fread data_file_name
NB. a b sublist y gives elements [a..a+b) of y
sublist =: ({~(+i.)/)~"1 _
parse_line =: monad define
match =: 'p=(-?[[:digit:]]+),(-?[[:digit:]]+) v=(-?[[:digit:]]+),(-?[[:digit:]]+)' rxmatch y
2 2 $ ". y sublist~ }. match
)
initial_state =: parse_line"1 > raw
'positions velocities' =: ({."2 ; {:"2) initial_state
steps =: 100
size =: 101 103
step =: (size & |) @: +
travel =: step (steps & *)
quadrant =: (> & (<. size % 2)) - (< & (<. size % 2))
final_quadrants =: quadrant"1 @: travel"1
quadrant_ids =: 4 2 $ 1 1 _1 1 1 _1 _1 _1
result1 =: */ +/"1 quadrant_ids -:"1/ positions final_quadrants velocities
render =: monad define
|: 'O' (<"1 y)} size $ '.'
)
pair_distances =: monad : 'y (| @: j./ @: -/"1)/ y'
loop =: dyad define
positions =. positions step"1 (velocities * x)
for_i. i. 1000 do.
time_number =. x + i * y
mean_distance =. (+/ % #) , pair_distances positions
if. mean_distance < 50 do.
(render positions) (1!:2) 2
(": time_number, mean_distance) (1!:2) 2
(6!:3) 1
end.
if. mean_distance < 35 do. break. end.
positions =. positions step"1 (velocities * y)
end.
time_number
result2 =: 11 loop 101
