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Day 14: Restroom Redoubt

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[โ€“] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Very cool, taking a statistical approach to discern random noise from picture.

[โ€“] gedhrel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks. It was the third thing I tried - began by looking for mostly-symmetrical, then asked myself "what does a christmas tree look like?" and wiring together some rudimentary heuristics. When those both failed (and I'd stopped for a coffee) the alternative struck me. It seems like a new avenue into the same diophantine fonisher that's pretty popular in these puzzles - quite an interesting one.

This day's puzzle is clearly begging for some inventive viaualisations.