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   by userundefined 9mo ago

   https://dawnofthe.dad/workout Been working on a Google-sheet backed workout tracker, which basically makes it easy for me to see what I've done or not done recently and pick the next thing to do. I'm thinking of o
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   by userundefined 1y ago

   I'm still working on and off on my https://dawnofthe.dad/crossword , albeit most of the guts (solver backing the crossword builder) have been stable and lately most of the work has been on the front-end. On that note, I
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   by userundefined 2y ago

   Backend is in pure golang, frontend is in Typescript compiled to JS.
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   CSPs and performance of all-different variants(blog.dawnofthe.dad)

   1 points by userundefined 3y ago|1 comments
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   by userundefined 3y ago

   I've got a CSP solver powering things like a sudoku solver and a crossword builder on my site ( https://dawnofthe.dad/ ). Recently I've been playing with NxN sudokus and created https://dawnofthe.dad&#x2F
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   Solving NxN Sudokus with CSPs(dawnofthe.dad)

   2 points by userundefined 3y ago|1 comments
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   by userundefined 3y ago

   I've built a site that lets you play around with solving NxN sudokus, up to 36x36, backed by a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) solver. The site exposes a bunch of parameters that influence how this problem is solved, including ho
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   Rubber Duck Technique for Improvements(blog.dawnofthe.dad)

   3 points by userundefined 3y ago|1 comments
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   by userundefined 3y ago

   I've started writing a blog for a crossword builder / sudoku solver site ( https://dawnofthe.dad ) and in the process of doing so found a few ways of improving the site/functionality itself. This made me think back
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    by userundefined 3y ago

    Nope, it's all constraint satisfaction based. Another person actually correctly inferred most of the details above: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=36532254&goto=item%3Fi... .
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    by userundefined 3y ago

    This is pretty much spot on. In a bit more detail, the CSP solver does indeed apply forward checking, and a fancier version of that, arc consistency, is available too, but ends up being slower on the whole. There's dynamic variable ord
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    by userundefined 3y ago

    Mulling over it. I feel the underlying solver itself is something I've invested a fair bit of time and I'm not sure I want to open source it yet. I might marinate on it a bit and do it in the future.
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    by userundefined 3y ago

    Thanks! It's a cool idea and giving a user the ability to specify the words, but let the algo choose their locations might be an easy extension to try out. The behavior you describe can then be met. I've added it to my personal ba
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    by userundefined 3y ago

    Yep, there are a few guidelines I've found on the web that would be good to cross-reference and these are good pointers, I'll look for ways to do so while trying to keep things relatively clean (I'm a backend guy so UX is alw
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    by userundefined 3y ago

    Haha, yep, indeed. I did try to bake in some throttling behavior up front, but just had to crank it up a bit now, will see how that holds. Oh yeah, and for the curious, I am running on E2 freebie in GCE, so my "scaling" limits are
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    Crossword Builder(dawnofthe.dad)

    24 points by userundefined 3y ago|16 comments
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    by userundefined 3y ago

    Heya, here's a crossword builder I am working on as a hobby project. Backend is pure Go, frontend is in Typescript. I have a personal backlog of features to add (like allowing users to create custom grids), and I'm glad to take an