Its basically like a cloud storage, and your local storage (your brain) gets wiped every loop. You can edit this file any time you want using your brain (you can be tied up and it still works). 1024 Bytes is all you get. Yes you read that right: BYTES, not KB, MB, or GB: 1024 BYTES
Lets just say, for this example: The loop is 7 days form a Monday 6 AM to the next Monday 5:59 AM.
How do you best use these 1024 Bytes to your advantage?
How would your strategy be different if every human on Earth also gets the same 1024 Bytes “memory buffer”?
So if between weeks you don’t retain any skills and the entire world resets, then the sum total of your existence is what you experience in a week and what you can store in 1 kB of data. Unlike groundhog day, where the protagonist knows and can learn.
The 1 kB would be the only thing that indicates that something is going on.
The irony is that your own memory of the 1 kB existing and how to write to it would also need to be retained.
(I’m a software developer, it’s all about the edge cases.)
My initial response with the expanded parameters, I’d probably store a GPS location and a timestamp. How far did you get in a week, assuming that your starting location also resets.
I mean, you could store a location finder in the Library of Babel.
You can convert any 3200 character into a location on an imaginary library, site is here https://libraryofbabel.info/
Example:
Hexagon: goynbkiuqamnqrrbo2h2xt1xpg9j802eacyyur5zua3a
Wall 4 Shelf 5 Volume 17 Page 48
The text says:
you already tried assassinating the queen of england last week, but your attempt failed when you stepped on a banana peel just as you pulled your firearm, and your head smashed into the pavement and you typed this text just as you bleeded out
You can then put multiple locations into another set of 3200.
Like you have have multiple of:
"Hexagon: goynbkiuqamnqrrbo2h2xt1xpg9j802eacyyur5zua3a
Wall 4 Shelf 5 Volume 17 Page 48"
Type of text all crammed into another location.
Then you have one string of text telling you to go to a page, which has an index of every other location you need to go to. You can cram so much information in there. Honestly, I think you can do this recursively and fit like nearly unlimited info in there, ye know what I mean?
https://libraryofbabel.info/ Very cool concept btw.
Edit: Actually nvm, I just realized the hexagon number is as long as the max text limit 3200, so see y’all again on Monday 6AM since I will be stuck in this timeloop again. 🙃
Wouldn’t the contents of the library also get reset every loop?
No, the information already exists. Its just a link to it. Basically, every combination of 3200 letters of the english 26 letter alphabet, space, period, comma, already exists.
But that doesn’t matter anymore, as I just realized the hexagon code thingy needed to locate the thing is also 3200 characters long, so this isn’t exactly useful.
Honestly I was not able to retrieve information by those coordinates (hexagon number, wall, shelf, volume, page). Gonna play around more with it - maybe I didn’t get something.
Ah crap, the text got cut off when I was copy pasting. Didn’t even realize the hex number was that long.
The hexagon number is actually:
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
Which means, this method doesn’t actually works since the hex number itself is as long as the max text limit 3200.
Well…
(I guess I’m gonna be stuck in this timeloop forever, see y’all again on Monday at 6AM! 🙃)
Eh, I knew something was fishy - otherwise it would be such a great option for a compression algorithm!
No luck again :D
Thanks for elaborating!