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EP18 10,000 DLLs and Too Much Math - Wrapping Up FLARE-On 12 with the FLARE Team
EP18 10,000 DLLs and Too Much Math - Wrapping Up FLARE-On 12 with the FLARE Team
In this episode, we sit down with Nick Harbour, Blas Kojusner, Moritz Raabe, and Sam Kim — members of the FLARE Team and some of this year’s challenge authors — for a deep dive into the design and execution of FLARE-On 12. The team discusses the complexity and intent behind this year's challenges, including how Sam created his grueling final challenge, "10,000," which featured 10,000 individual DLLs to force competitors toward automation. Sam reveals that solving the final puzzle required dee...