some part of me is always genuinely flabbergasted when i manage to correctly code up an algorithmic thing that *works*
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like i ad hoc invented a pretty shitty scoring mechanism for words to get through cryptopals 1.4 and it *just worked*
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1.6 actually has you do a Hamming distance function which I haven’t tried yet but i fully expect to be blown away
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turns out hamming distance is just a fancy way of saying 'count the number of bit differences'
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name for the distance between what you thought an algorithm consisted of and the actuality of it
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