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by dxbydt 1523 days ago
> I copied a bunch of standard CS algorithms from the internet. I rephrased them as Company Assessments. If someone publicly shared them I DMCA'ed their github repo. If they made a ruckus I shut them up with 25K VC chump change.

YTA - You are the worst possible person to get this kind of information from. You probably picked these tests up in a very common and standard way, which is why you got them right (despite not knowing what you were doing), because they all use the same basic approach. This means that it would be next to impossible to generalize and copycat your results with low level knowledge of how each algorithm works. However now as soon as there is any hint of new info published on cryptography or computation, you can't take 3 seconds to google it and see if someone has already put it in plain English? That wouldn't even make sense! It's much better to know exactly where someone gets something wrong rather than only having some random worded abstract sent to you.