Nice, now that you've found Daniel Kane, I need an example from one of his classes. I don't remember anything about it other than its called "The Skyline Problem". Can you find it?
Searching skyline problem in Google gives us a ton of results. But if we scope it to ucsd.edu we quickly find what we're looking for.
A search for site:ucsd.edu skyline problem gives us a couple of PDFs. The second has an addition at the bottom:
There's our flag: sdctf{N1ce_d0rKiNG_C@pt41N}.