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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Refit a Pricing Model for an Insurance Comparison Site
You receive 9 months of quote-impression data (about 14 million events) with about 60 features and click labels. Refit logistic regression with elastic-net regularization plus a…
- Regularized Regression
- Feature Interactions
- Calibration
Statistical Machine Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Technical Debt Register for a Legacy Banking Monolith
Run 8 structured 45-minute engineer interviews (template provided) capturing one debt item per pain point with reproducible evidence. Run SonarQube against the monolith for a qu…
- Technical Debt
- Debt Quadrant
- Code Quality
Technical Debt Management - StrategyIntermediateNew
IP Strategy for a SaaS Scale-Up Moving to Enterprise
Your task is to create a comprehensive IP strategy report for TaskFlow. This should include an audit of existing IP, recommendations for patenting key algorithms (if feasible), …
- Intellectual Property
- Patent Strategy
- Trade Secrets
IT Law and Data Protection - CodeBeginnerNew
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 Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Build a Pricing-and-Packaging Proposal for a Developer-Tools Startup
Analyze the current 80 customers (anonymized export provided: usage by metric, plan, MRR, churn risk). Pick a value-metric tied to customer-visible value (likely: monitored serv…
- Pricing Strategy & Elasticity
- Model Packaging
- Three Statement Modeling
Product Management for Software Engineers - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Director Liability in a SaaS Scale-Up's Failed Enterprise Deal
Analyze the facts: the CEO, without board approval, promised a client custom features that the product team could not deliver, leading to contract termination and a £500K loss. …
- Director Duties
- Companies Act 2006
- Business Judgment Rule
Company and Corporate Law - CodeSeniorNew
Train a GAN for Synthetic Defect Augmentation on a Factory Line
You receive a labeled defect dataset (12 defect types, ranging from 8 to 4,200 examples each), the production classifier, and a starter StyleGAN2-ADA codebase. Train a GAN per r…
- Gans
- Stylegan
- Data Augmentation
Generative AI - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a DSL for Insurance-Policy Rules in OCaml
Design a small DSL covering: variables (insured amount, premium, deductible, named perils), expressions (arithmetic, conditionals, lookups against external tables like CRESTA zo…
- Ocaml
- Domain Specific Languages
- Parser Combinators
Functional Programming - Browse challenges
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Marketing Analyst
Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Optimizing IT Service Management for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to design a complete incident management process for CloudFlow using ITIL best practices. Model the process in BPMN, define incident priority levels (P1-P4) with re…
- Itil
- Incident Management
- Service Design
Business Process Management - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Trust-Calibration UI for a Domestic Assistive Robot
You will write the interaction patterns first (in a Notion brief), build a paper or Figma prototype, run 4 study sessions in week 2, iterate, and re-test in week 3. The interact…
- Trust Calibration
- Human Robot Interaction
- Interaction Design
Human-Robot Interaction - CodeBeginnerNew
Design and Implement a C++ Telemetry Aggregator With Inheritance
Implement a TelemetrySource abstract base class with virtual sample() and timestamp() methods, 6 concrete subclasses (one per sensor family), and a TelemetryBus that polymorphic…
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
- Inheritance
- Polymorphism
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - DesignSeniorNew
Group Reporting Redesign for a Renewable Energy Conglomerate
Your team must deliver a comprehensive group reporting redesign for EcoPower Group. You will receive an overview of the group structure (subsidiaries, associates, joint ventures…
- Consolidation Process Design
- IFRS Compliance
- Intercompany Elimination
Group Accounting and Consolidation Build a verifiable portfolio.
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Predict Subscription Churn for an EdTech Platform
You receive a CSV with about 18,000 student-month rows: features include login frequency, session length, quiz scores, parent app opens, and plan tier. The target is whether the…
- Supervised Learning
- Logistic Regression
- Gradient Boosting
Machine Learning (Undergraduate) - CodeBeginnerNew
Find and Exploit Web Vulnerabilities on a Capture-the-Flag Range
Receive credentials to the CTF environment, the 8 challenge specifications (each with a target endpoint and a flag to extract), and the Rails source for the vulnerable app. For …
- Web Security
- OWASP Top 10
- Penetration Testing
Introduction to Computer Security - CodeSeniorNew
Auditing a DeFi Lending Protocol for Vulnerabilities
You are provided with the Solidity source code for LendFlow's core lending pool contract and a simplified oracle contract. Your task is to conduct a manual security audit, focus…
- Solidity
- Smart Contract Auditing
- Decentralized Finance
Blockchain and Digital Assets - ResearchIntermediateNew
Red-Team an Image-Classification Pipeline for a Banking KYC Workflow
You receive the production image classifier as a black-box API plus a labeled validation set of 5,000 ID images. Run untargeted FGSM and PGD attacks (L_inf budget 4/255 and 8/25…
- Adversarial Attacks
- Robust Evaluation
- Red Team Operations
Trustworthy AI, Robustness, and Safety - DesignIntermediateNew
Design SLO-Driven Alerts for a Telco's Subscriber API
Receive a 90-day RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) metrics export for the subscriber API across 6 endpoints and 38 weeks of paging history. Define an SLO per endpoint (e.g., 99.9 per…
- Slo Design
- Alerting
- Prometheus & Grafana
Software Observability - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Controlling Inventory for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
Your task is to develop an inventory control system for EcoThreads. You must analyze historical sales data (provided in a CSV), identify patterns, propose KPIs (e.g., turnover r…
- Inventory Management
- Data Analysis
- KPI Definition
Principles of Management - ResearchSeniorNew
DPO Preference-Tune a Code Assistant for Style Compliance
You receive a 7B coding base model, a client's published code-style guide (Python, around 80 pages), and a generated preference dataset (4,000 pairs of code snippets where one m…
- Dpo
- Preference Optimization
- Fine Tuning
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models - AnalysisSeniorNew
Cyber-Physical Security Audit for a Connected-Building HVAC System
Audit one representative tower's BMS: enumerate BACnet devices (network discovery + capability inventory), identify lateral-movement paths (tenant wifi -> guest network -> BACne…
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Ot Security
- Risk Management
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - StrategyIntermediateNew
Leading a Remote Team Through Crisis at a SaaS Scale-Up
You are the team lead for a 10-person customer success team spread across 4 time zones. Your task is to develop a leadership plan to manage the transition, including communicati…
- Remote Leadership
- Change Management
- Virtual Team Building
Leadership and Managerial Skills - DesignBeginnerNew
A/B-Test a Recommender Improvement Without Breaking Trust
You receive offline-evaluation results for both the production and candidate models plus aggregate metrics from the last 12 weeks (recipe views, save rate, weekly active users, …
- Experimental Design
- A/B Testing
- Metric Design
Machine Learning in Practice - DesignIntermediateNew
Design Multi-Tenant Network Policies with Calico Tier Enforcement
Receive the cluster topology (120 customer namespaces + 4 platform namespaces), the application traffic patterns (frontend talks to backend talks to its tenant's database), and …
- Kubernetes Orchestration
- Network Policy
- Calico
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Channel Partner Program for a Munich Industrial Sensor Manufacturer
Your task is to create a new channel partner program. You will analyze sales data from the past 2 years (provided in a CSV with 10,000 transactions) to identify top-performing p…
- B2B Marketing
- Channel Management
- Data Analysis
Business-to-Business Marketing
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