Surely you'd need a starred first to know how to apply an ai to these puzzles! 
 
A team! - that smacks of overkill.  We (mostly) coped all alone in our lonely 
garrets last year.

M

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> On 6 Dec 2022, at 18:47, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yep, I try to ignore the leaderboard. (For example, when I started
> aoc6, it was about an hour and a quarter after the global start time).
> 
> Among other things, the top performers on the global leaderboard
> include AIs and teams. And the underlying leaderboard mechanism uses a
> global start time (rather than an individual start time) for a variety
> of practical reasons which have little to do with individual
> performance.
> 
> This is probably a metaphor for something, though I'm not sure what.
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 4:17 AM 'Michael Day' via Chat
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Very easy today, in J at least,  and probably in APL & K/Q. (Though it
>> suggests one should learn the new fold features,  as it's inefficient to
>> examine all the data for something that might occur early.  No problem
>> with 4kb,  but ....)
>> 
>> Day 6 took me perhaps 1/4 hour, but the personal leaderboard has my
>> time as nearly 4 hours - I suspect it's because I forgot to log off after
>> my latest posting here about data xfer in day 5.
>> 
>> I was timed at 11hrs 13 yesterday (day 5);  I was a bit slow on some
>> aspects,  but most of that time I was out donating blood,  having a coffee
>> and rehearsing for a carol servicecha!   Perhaps 1 hour?
>> 
>> Just a moan,
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
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