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 These are the lecture notes for the 'Optimization and Game Theory in Flow Problems', taught in winter rem 23/24 at the University of Bonn.
 
+NOTE: The below download links do not work yet, CI has not been set up with this repository. If you want to look at the notes, clone these and run `make`
+(this assumes you have `git`, `make` and a full tex distribution installed).
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 The [latest version][1] is availabe as a pdf download via GitLab runner.
 You can also have a look at the generated [log files][2] or visit the
 [gl pages][3] index directly.