08/04/2025

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Tweet 1

I'm a two time icpc world finalist who considered it borderline cheating to study while I was competing

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Tweet 2

Which to be fair is probably why we never did well at the actual world finals

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Tweet 3

But c'mon, you can't figure out how to reverse a linked list from just the problem description?

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Tweet 4

But okay here's a point on the memorization side: The first words I said at my interview for my current job were "Oh yeah this is Huffman coding I learned it in logic class in 2015"

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