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Red-Team Evaluation of a Refusal Policy
You receive the lab's written refusal policy (version 2.3) and a starter set of 60 red-team prompts (10 per category). Extend the set to 240 prompts (40 per category) using docu…
- Red Team Operations
- Refusal Policy
- Alignment Evaluation
Machine Learning from Human Preferences (RLHF and Alignment) - CodeSeniorNew
Diagnose Memory Corruption in a Trading-Firm Order Gateway
Read the 8k-line allocator + order-pool code (provided), plus 3 production crash dumps and 14 hours of pre-crash telemetry. Hypothesize root cause (likely candidates: use-after-…
- Cpp Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
Imperative and Low-Level Programming - DesignFoundationalNew
Launching a Sustainable Fashion Line with Influencer Marketing
Develop a complete influencer marketing plan: identify influencer tiers (macro, micro, nano), create a brief for influencers, propose a content strategy, and set KPIs. Include a…
- Influencer Marketing
- Campaign Planning
- Budgeting
Marketing Management - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimize Hyperparameters with Bayesian Optimization on a Tight Budget
You receive a B2B-SaaS churn dataset (about 12,000 customer-month rows, 38 features) and a fixed sweep budget of 40 trials per model family. Implement a Bayesian optimizer (Optu…
- Bayesian Optimization
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Ensemble Methods
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Build a GitOps Rollout Pipeline with ArgoCD Progressive Delivery
Receive the current CI pipeline (GitHub Actions runs kubectl apply against EKS), one representative service (Go API, 8 replicas, 4ms p99 SLO, 0.1 percent error-rate SLO), and ac…
- Kubernetes Orchestration
- Gitops
- Argocd
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Resolving Cross-Cultural Conflict in a Global SaaS Remote Team
Your task is to conduct a cultural conflict analysis using frameworks like Trompenaars and Hofstede, identify root causes, and design a team intervention (e.g., a virtual worksh…
- Conflict Resolution
- Cultural Analysis
- Remote Team Management
Cross-Cultural Management - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Run a Pre-Deployment Fairness + Drift Audit on a Hiring Model
You receive a trained classifier (joblib), the training data sample, and a held-out 'next-month' evaluation set. Compute group fairness metrics (false-positive-rate gap, true-po…
- Fairness Metrics
- Drift Detection
- Bias Mitigation
Machine Learning in Practice - ResearchBeginnerNew
Designing Comfortable VR Locomotion for a Mobile Game Studio
Build a Unity test harness on Quest 3 with one short forest level and 3 toggleable locomotion modes (smooth with vignette, teleport, dash). Recruit 18 playtesters (mix of VR-exp…
- Vr Development
- Immersive Design
- Usability Testing
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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.
- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Tax-Efficient Legal Form for a Nairobi D2C Cosmetics Startup
Students will receive financial projections for GlowUp Naturals (KES 50 million revenue, KES 35 million expenses, projected growth to KES 200 million in 3 years). They must calc…
- Income Tax
- Corporate Tax
- Trade Tax
Business Taxation - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare ML Compiler Stacks on a Vision Backbone
Take a frozen ResNet-50 (or similar) in ONNX. Compile and benchmark it via TensorRT on Jetson + GPU, ONNX Runtime on all three, OpenVINO on x86 CPU, and IREE on ARM if time allo…
- Ml Compilers
- Tensorrt
- Onnx Optimization
Machine Learning Systems - 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 - AnalysisSeniorNew
Optimizing Renewable Energy Project Finance Model
You are a financial analyst at a renewable energy consultancy. SunPower Iberia has provided detailed cost estimates, PPA terms (20-year fixed price), and local tax incentives. Y…
- Project Finance
- Debt Scheduling
- Irr Npv
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Audit a Production Model for Membership Inference Attacks
Use a black-box membership inference attack (e.g., the LiRA or shadow-model attack). You have query access to a sandboxed copy of the model + the original training data labels f…
- Membership Inference
- Privacy Attacks
- Model Evaluation
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Stand Up Contract Testing for a Microservices Backend
Inventory the 18 services and pick the 6 producer-consumer pairs with the most staging breakages in the last 90 days. Stand up a Pact broker (self-hosted or PactFlow trial). For…
- Contract Testing
- Pact
- Microservices Patterns
Software Testing and Quality Assurance - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Risk Parity Portfolio for a Swiss Pension Fund
Your task is to design a risk parity portfolio for the pension fund, incorporating at least three alternative asset classes beyond equities and bonds. Provide a quantitative com…
- Risk Parity
- Portfolio Construction
- Alternative Beta
Hedge Funds and Alternative Investments - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Real-Time Operations Wall Display for a Logistics AI Startup
You receive a websocket feed of operational events (around 20 events per second) plus a small KPI definition list (throughput per zone, late-truck count, exception queue depth, …
- Realtime Visualization
- Glanceability
- D3
Data Visualization - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Dataflow-Based Dead-Code Detector for a Python Monorepo
Build a Python tool using libcst (or ast + jedi) that constructs a call graph across the monorepo. Account for indirect references (entry points in setup.py / pyproject.toml, dy…
- Dataflow Analysis
- Ast
- Call Graph
Program Analysis - StrategyBeginnerNew
Negotiating a Strategic Alliance for a Seoul D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to develop a negotiation strategy for GlowUp's founder to use in talks with the drugstore chain. You must analyze the BATNA, reservation price, and potential integr…
- Batna Analysis
- Distributive Bargaining
- Integrative Negotiation
Negotiation - 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 - ResearchFoundationalNew
Requirements Discovery for a Restaurant Inventory App
Conduct 5 semi-structured interviews (45 minutes each) across line cook, kitchen manager, bar manager, store manager, and group operations. Synthesize findings into 5 user perso…
- Requirements Engineering
- User Interviews
- Use Case Modeling
Software Engineering Foundations - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Reshoring Strategy for a German Medical Device Manufacturer
Your task is to analyze the current single-source dependency, evaluate at least two alternative sourcing regions (e.g., Czech Republic, Poland, or domestic German suppliers), an…
- Supply Chain Network Design
- Total Cost Of Ownership
- Risk Assessment
Global Supply Chain Management - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Build a Reproducible Pricing Analysis for a DTC Skincare Brand
You receive 24 months of order-line data (around 480,000 lines), a Shopify-style customer export, and a discount-code log. Build a Python pipeline that produces: SKU-level price…
- Data Wrangling
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Cohort Analysis
Applied Data Analysis and Practical Data Science - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Resilience Analysis of a National Power-Distribution Network
Receive an anonymized topology of the medium-voltage network (4,200 nodes, 4,800 edges, each edge with capacity + age + redundancy flag). Build the network in NetworkX, compute …
- Network Science
- Graph Analysis
- Resilience Analysis
Network Science and Computational Social Science - ResearchSeniorNew
Circular Business Model for Sustainable Fashion
You are a business model innovation analyst at EcoWear. Your task is to research and recommend one circular business model (e.g., rental subscription, resale marketplace, or rep…
- Circular Economy
- Business Model Canvas
- Three Statement Modeling
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