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On The Shoulders of Giants

#osint #easy

The Clues

  1. Something to do with a machine learning researcher
  2. The phrase "machine learning researchers are not good programmers" is important
  3. The researcher/professor is related to New York Univeristy (NYU), since Osiris Lab is at NYU
  4. Evil brother???

We need to find 3 common hobbies between the professor and his evil brother

Step 0: Search for the phrase

I googled the exact phrase "machine learning researchers are not good programmers" using quotes

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Looking for the term "New York Univeristy" or "NYU" in each PDFs we find professor Yann LeCun.

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Step 1: Find more information on the professor

Searching for "Yann LeCun", we find his website, which is also listed on his wikipedia page.

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He does have a hobbies section but only 2 are listed and no mention of an evil brother.

Step 2: Find the evil brother

Searching for "evil brother" we find a link to him talking about Phillippe Kahn

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Clicking on Yann is NOT Phillippe Kahn's evil brother and searching "evil brother" one more time we find:

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Here he mentions three favorite activities (hobbies) which they have in common

  1. hacking
  2. racing sailboats
  3. playing jazz on wind instruments

Step 3: Assemble the flag

Follow the format and make sure to separate individual hobbies with an underscore ( _ ) and words in each hobby with a hyphen (-). All lowercase.