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How to Solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 10 with Python

We're going hiking... or at least we're drawing hiking maps. So back to evaluating grids and counting neighbors again. But before we get right into the day and my solution for this day's puzzle, here is the info on how I approach this whole

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How to solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 9 with Python

Throwback time to the 90s or early 2000s - back when watching small little lines "defragmenting" our Windows computer was somehow the most fascinating past time as a child. Let's just say this: at the start I thought this was the most nostalgic and cool puzzle.

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How to solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 8 with Python

Back to grids with our first "radius"-related puzzle of the year. But before we get right into the day and my solution for this day's puzzle, here is the info on how I approach this whole event (where my code is, what editor I use,

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How to solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 7 with Python

The one where you just do some math and then you're done?! 😦 But before we get right into the day and my solution for this day's puzzle, here is the info on how I approach this whole event (where my code is, what editor I use,

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How to solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 6 with Python

This seems to be the first day where checking all possible options is only barely feasible... 🤏 But before we get right into the day and my solution for this day's puzzle, here is the info on how I approach this whole event (where my code is, what editor

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How to solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 5 with Python

This day is all about sorting and sequence-checking in this years's Advent of Code! 🎄❄️💻 Also I am aware of the spelling mistake in the thumbnail. I actually thought AI was doing so well with all the writing and then it messed up on the last word 😂 We all

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How to solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 4 with Python

Our first grid-based challenge of this years's Advent of Code! 🎄❄️💻 But before we get right into the day and my solution for this day's puzzle, here is the info on how I approach this whole event (where my code is, what editor I use, etc): Advent

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How to solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 3 with Python

It's the most festive time of the year - Advent of Code! The highlight of every coder's December. 🎄❄️💻🎉 But before we get right into the first day and my solution for this day's puzzle, here is the info on how I approach this whole

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How to solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 2 with Python

It's the most festive time of the year - Advent of Code! The highlight of every coder's December. 🎄❄️💻🎉 But before we get right into the first day and my solution for this day's puzzle, here is the info on how I approach this whole

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How to solve Advent of Code 2024 - Day 1 with Python

It's the most festive time of the year - Advent of Code! The highlight of every coder's December. 🎄❄️💻🎉 But before we get right into the first day and my solution for this day's puzzle, here is the info on how I approach this whole

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Advent of Code 2024 - Info Post

It's the most festive time of the year - Advent of Code! The highlight of every coder's December 🎄❄️💻🎉 Here's everything about my participation, I will link to this from every days' post. What even IS Advent of Code??!! Good question, my friend. Here

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How to build a Python package with uv and install it locally

This post will walk you through the steps to build a simple Python package and install it locally on your machine or a cloud machine. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a working package that you can use like any other library in Python, but with

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How to Set Up Poetry for Python: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Package Management

I've always been a pip + venv (yes, not even virtualenv) user. Conda never played nice with me. However, there have been some times when I just could not install a requirements .txt from a repository due to it always crashing with some dependency mismatches. Recently, I have heard

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Intro to Scene Text Recognition - Guide to Image-to-Text Conversion

Recognizing text in a photo - something we're quite good at, but neural networks struggle quite a bit with it. While OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (OCR Wikipedia) is a fairly well-known concept, the very similar Scene Text Recognition (STR) problem is not talked about as much. It’s

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How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 4 with Python

If you missed any previous days or are looking for another year, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you

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How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 3 with Python

If you missed any previous days or are looking for another year, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you

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How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 2 with Python

If you missed any previous days or are looking for another year, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you

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How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 1 with Python

We're back! It's once again time for the most festive time of the year and therefore Advent of Code! 🎉 But before we get right into the first day and my solution for this day's puzzle: What even IS Advent of Code??!! Good question, my

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How to solve Advent of Code 2022 - Day 15 with Python

If you missed any previous days, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you're

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How to solve Advent of Code 2022 - Day 14 with Python

If you missed any previous days, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you're

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How to solve Advent of Code 2022 - Day 13 with Python

If you missed any previous days, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you're

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How to solve Advent of Code 2022 - Day 12 with Python

If you missed any previous days, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you're

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How to solve Advent of Code 2022 - Day 10 with Python

If you missed any previous days, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you're

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How to solve Advent of Code 2022 - Day 11 with Python

If you missed any previous days, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you're

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How to solve Advent of Code 2022 - Day 8 with Python

If you missed any previous days, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you're