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Task: Given a symmetric pairwise distance matrix (1808×1808) in a .npy file. Solution: Applied Classical MDS (Multidimensional Scaling) with eigendecomposition to reconstruct 2D coordinates from the distance matrix; plotting the points revealed the flag text.

$ ls tags/ techniques/
numpymdsmultidimensional_scalingdistance_matrixeigendecompositiondata_visualization
classical_mdseigendecompositioncoordinate_reconstruction
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