commit d09a7ee0d208424bc2deb601ce434dea95888327
parent 701f17d49b19b0e40a6a97340ba1d0082fa0b357
Author: Eamon Caddigan <eamon.caddigan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 11:26:45 -0500
Solution to day 6, part 1
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Advent of Code 2021, day 6 (part 1): simulate an exponentially growing
+school of lanternfish using an initial list of fish and their ages"""
+
+# For this puzzle, the most important decision is the data structure to use to
+# represent the school of fish. Since there's exponential growth, any scheme
+# that uses an element for each fish could quickly get out of hand. Since the
+# set of possible ages is quite small, it's much more efficient to use counters
+# for each age. I'm using a pandas Series because of course I am (but also, I'm
+# confronting my aversion to pandas index attributes head on), but a simple
+# dict would work fine here too, or even a list if you're careful with updating
+# indices.
+
+import functools
+import numpy as np
+import pandas as pd
+from utils import get_puzzle_input
+
+def convert_input_to_series(input_string):
+ """Parse the input (a sequence of fish with their age in days) and return a
+ Series, where the indices represent fish ages (in days) and the values
+ represent the count of fish that age"""
+ return (
+ pd.Series(input_string.rstrip().split(','))
+ .astype(np.int64)
+ .value_counts()
+ )
+
+# For this implementation, we'll advance the fish in age and spawn new fish all
+# in one step--even though, conceptually, it would be nice to separate these
+# steps--because that way it'll be easier to separate the fish that are ready
+# to spawn from the babies who aren't.
+
+def step_one_day(fish_counts):
+ """Given a Series of fish counts, simulate one day of ageing/growth of the
+ school, and return a new Series"""
+ # Once again, I'm trying to program more functionally, which means I'm
+ # treating data structures as immutable (outside the function) even when it
+ # might be more efficient to update things in-place. Theoretically we're
+ # trading efficiency for "safety", although I'm perfectly aware that for
+ # these puzzles it really doesn't matter. But inside the actual function, I
+ # am editing things in-place, so that's a bit of a fail.
+ # Implementation note: I looked at a couple methods of updating the axis
+ # and was surprised by the results.
+ # %timeit fish_counts.set_axis((fish_counts.index - 1) % 9)
+ #> 305 µs ± 6.05 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000 loops each)
+ # %timeit fish_counts.rename(lambda x: (x - 1) % 9)
+ #> 93.1 µs ± 2.19 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
+ updated_fish_counts = fish_counts.rename(lambda x: (x - 1) % 9)
+ # We're cheating a bit here. Rather than resetting an adult's counter back
+ # to 6 and then adding babies with a counter set to 8, we're resetting
+ # adults' counters to 8 (representing the babies) and then adding the
+ # adults back into the count. That's why we take the counter value modulo 9
+ # instead of the obvious 7.
+ if 8 in updated_fish_counts:
+ if 6 in updated_fish_counts:
+ updated_fish_counts[6] += updated_fish_counts[8]
+ else:
+ updated_fish_counts[6] = updated_fish_counts[8]
+ return updated_fish_counts
+
+def count_fish_after(fish_counts, num_days):
+ """Given a Series of fish counts and a number of days, return the total
+ number of fish in the school as an integer"""
+ return int(
+ functools.reduce(lambda x, y: step_one_day(x),
+ range(num_days),
+ fish_counts)
+ .sum()
+ )
+
+def solve_puzzle(input_string):
+ """Return the numeric solution to the puzzle"""
+ return count_fish_after(convert_input_to_series(input_string), 80)
+
+def main(*argv):
+ """Run when the file is called as a script"""
+ assert solve_puzzle("3,4,3,1,2\n") == 5934
+ print("Number of lanternfish after 80 days:",
+ solve_puzzle(get_puzzle_input(6)))
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ import sys
+ main(*sys.argv)
