#ok only i remember because in 2022 i basically lived in the computer lab.

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remember when wordle came out and every programmer and their mother was making algorithms to automate guessing it. those were good times

#ok only i remember because in 2022 i basically lived in the computer lab. #it's actually kind of an interesting algorithm #mmn #i think its a process of elimination thing #ok structures - list of all possible 5-letter words - so list of string.. very possibly represented as list of 5-idx char arrays #n pre-order the list based on best guesses. idk how to do this some informaiton theory thing *waves hands* #i just dont want to go thru the hassle of trying to find the statistical best guess every round too. i'm 100% sure it's possible #-for someone smarter than me #we'll make it start with the statistically best word. uhh what was it. #'CRANE' < i know 3b1b put out another video correcting but im too lazy to look it up #oh ok i'll use penis. 'PENIS' #then.. for each guess.. get info on what possible letters r there n in what positions.. n thenbased on that iterate thru the original list #-and create a copy of it BUT JUST THE WORDS THAT STILL WORK - throw out the bad ones #uhh yeah go thru that list n pick the first valid word from that list #repeat until the game spits out 5 green boxes #yah #yap #ok i go back to drawing