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- CodeSeniorNew
Coordinate a Fleet of Warehouse Robots
Implement a simulated warehouse grid with 80 robots solving a pick-and-deliver workload. Design a decentralized coordination protocol (recommend a contract-net or auction-based …
- Multi Agent Coordination
- Decentralized Algorithms
- Simulation
Multi-Agent Systems - CodeBeginnerNew
Add a Test Harness to an Untested Open-Source CLI
Fork the repo (test mirror provided), set up Vitest with coverage and a CI workflow that fails under 75 percent on the targeted modules. Write characterization tests first (asse…
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
- Test Coverage
Software Construction - CodeIntermediateNew
Dynamic Programming for an IoT Battery Allocator
Read the device spec (32 KB RAM, 200 mAh daily budget, 9 sensing modes with mAh cost and farmer-value scores) and formulate the daily allocation as a 0/1 knapsack DP (dynamic pr…
- Dynamic Programming
- Algorithm Analysis
- C Programming
Algorithm Design and Analysis - CodeIntermediateNew
Fuzz a Memory-Unsafe Image-Parsing Library
Identify 3 critical parser entry points (DICOM dataset parser, JPEG 2000 decoder, TIFF directory parser) and write a libFuzzer harness + an AFL++ harness for each. Build with AS…
- Fuzzing
- Memory Safety
- Address Sanitizer
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Implement a Persistent Immutable List for a Collaborative-Editing Startup
Implement in Python (or TypeScript / Kotlin). Build a persistent immutable list with operations: get, set, append, pop, slice, concat. Use structural sharing (32-way vector trie…
- Data Abstraction
- Recursion
- Persistent Data Structures
Programming Abstractions - CodeIntermediateNew
Multi-Agent Research Assistant for Biotech Patent Review
You receive 20 historical patent applications with the firm's own prior-art memos as ground truth. Design and build a 3-agent system: (a) Searcher — issues queries to a patent-s…
- Ai Agents
- Multi Agent Collaboration
- Agent Evaluation
AI Agents and LLM-Based Agents - CodeIntermediateNew
Instruction-Tune a Small Model for an Edtech Tutor
You receive a 1.5B base model (e.g., SmolLM-1.7B or Qwen-1.8B), permission to use 2 hours of a rented A100, and a curated seed of around 5,000 math-tutoring dialogues. Augment w…
- Instruction Tuning
- Fine Tuning
- Dataset Curation
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Visual Search Backend for a Boutique Luxury Marketplace
You receive a catalog of 80,000 luxury items (image + sparse metadata) and a labeled query set of 300 user photos with hand-picked target items. Choose an embedding strategy (CL…
- Visual Search
- Word Embeddings
- Clip
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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- CodeBeginnerNew
Apply SOLID to a Java Reporting Service for a Renewable Energy Startup
Receive the legacy ReportService, 4 sample report templates (Daily Output, Monthly P&L, Annual Availability, Curtailment), and 22 fixtures (input dataset, expected report). Refa…
- Python Or Javascript
- Solid Principles
- Refactoring
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - CodeSeniorNew
Survival-Analysis Risk Model for an Oncology Decision-Support Pilot
You receive a curated public colorectal cancer cohort (about 9,000 patients, demographics, stage, grade, comorbidities, baseline labs, censored survival times). Fit (1) a Cox pr…
- Survival Analysis
- Risk Stratification
- Model Calibration
Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biomedicine - CodeIntermediateNew
3D Reconstruction of Cultural Artifacts from Photo Sets
Use COLMAP (open-source SfM) + OpenMVS (open-source MVS) on a curated dataset of 5 small artifacts plus a calibration cube. Build a single Python CLI that ingests a folder of im…
- Structure From Motion
- Multi View Stereo
- 3d Reconstruction
Computer Vision - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Serverless ETL Pipeline for a Climate-Tech Sensor Fleet
Build the pipeline using managed services only (e.g., S3 + Lambda + EventBridge + Glue, or GCS + Cloud Functions + Cloud Scheduler + BigQuery external tables). Source the data f…
- Serverless Architecture
- Etl Pipelines
- Terraform
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Build a Credit-Card Fraud Detector for a Singapore Neobank
You receive 9 months of anonymized authorization data (around 8 million transactions, around 0.4 percent fraud) plus current rule outcomes. Split temporally and train at least t…
- Classification Modeling
- Class Imbalance
- Model Calibration
AI and Quantitative Finance - CodeIntermediateNew
Use Actor-Critic to Auto-Tune a HVAC Control Policy
You receive a Sinergym wrapper around the EnergyPlus model of one floor with 8 thermal zones, weather data for one year, and occupancy schedules. Train a Soft Actor-Critic (SAC,…
- Actor Critic
- Soft Actor Critic
- Continuous Control
Deep Reinforcement Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Hybrid Recommendation System for an Indie Streaming Catalog
Use the provided 6-month anonymized event log (around 320M play events, 1.4M unique users in the held-out cohort), audio embeddings (256-d), and track metadata. Implement (1) an…
- Recommendation Systems
- Collaborative Filtering
- Content Based Recommendation
Data Mining and Information Retrieval - CodeIntermediateNew
Extractive QA on Clinical Trial Protocols
You receive 500 anonymized protocol PDFs (already OCR-ed to text) and 1,200 labeled question-answer pairs where each answer is an exact text span. Build an extractive QA system:…
- Extractive Qa
- Reading Comprehension
- Model Finetuning
Question Answering and Conversational Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Ship an MVP RAG Knowledge Assistant for a Climate-Tech Startup
As a 4-person team across a 6-week sprint, ship: (1) an ingestion pipeline for around 4,000 mixed PDFs and markdown files; (2) a vector store with documented chunking strategy; …
- RAG Architectures
- Software Engineering For Ai
- Vector Databases
AI Software Engineering Group Project - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Deep Q-Network for Warehouse Robot Routing
You receive a Gymnasium-compatible warehouse simulator (50x50 grid, 8 dynamic obstacle pedestrians, 20 randomized pick locations) and a baseline A* planner script. Train a DQN a…
- Deep Q Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
Deep Reinforcement Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Port a Monte Carlo Engine to CUDA for an Asset Manager
Profile the CPU MC engine to identify the kernel candidates: path generation (Brownian motion + correlated factors), payoff evaluation, aggregation. Port to CUDA: use cuRAND for…
- Cuda
- Monte Carlo
- Gpu Programming
High-Performance and Scientific Computing - CodeIntermediateNew
Localize a Mobile Robot with Particle-Filter SLAM
You receive 4 ROS bags from real customer plants, each containing 2D LiDAR scans, wheel odometry, and ground-truth poses (from a motion-capture cell used only for evaluation). I…
- State Estimation
- Particle Filter
- Slam
Advanced Robotics - CodeIntermediateNew
Parallelize a Monte Carlo Risk Engine for a Quant Hedge Fund
Profile the existing engine (C++17, single-threaded). Identify the parallelism axis (per-path independence is the obvious one — but watch for the global RNG bottleneck). Impleme…
- Parallel Algorithms
- Shared Memory
- Work Stealing
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - CodeSeniorNew
Multilingual RAG for a European Customer-Support Knowledge Base
You receive 6,000 documents in 4 languages (mix of FAQs, parts catalogs, repair procedures) plus 120 labeled queries (30 per language) with gold source documents. Build a multil…
- Multilingual RAG
- Cross Lingual Retrieval
- Multilingual Embeddings
Retrieval-Augmented Generation - CodeBeginnerNew
Building an Apex Trigger for Lead Assignment in a SaaS Scale-up
You are a Salesforce developer at TaskFlow. Your task is to create an Apex trigger on the Lead object that assigns leads using a custom hierarchy: enterprise leads (employees >5…
- Apex
- Triggers
- Test Classes
Salesforce and CRM Platforms - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Anomaly-Detection Pipeline for Pharma Cold-Chain Logistics
You receive 18 months of shipment telemetry (around 60,000 shipments, around 12 million sensor readings) plus a hand-labeled set of 1,200 incidents (mix of true excursions, sens…
- Anomaly Detection
- Feature Engineering
- Time Series Basics
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