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- CodeIntermediateNew
Stream-Process a 64-Microphone Array to Locate Bearing Faults in Real Time
Using the provided fixture generator and array-geometry spec, implement an overlap-add streaming pipeline that consumes 64 channels in 1,024-sample frames with 50 percent overla…
- Fft
- Signal Processing
- Beamforming
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Vector-Search Backend for an Enterprise AI Knowledge Assistant
You receive a corpus of around 20,000 PDFs (mixed scanned and digital) totalling around 30 GB and a labeled retrieval set of 200 queries with human-judged ground-truth passages.…
- RAG
- Vector Search
- Embeddings
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - CodeFoundationalNew
Tune a Pick-and-Place Controller for a Cosmetics Co-Packer
You receive 4 hours of logged trajectories from the existing controller (joint positions, target poses, miss/success labels) and read/write access to the controller config (YAML…
- Motion Control
- Trajectory Tuning
- Robot Kinematics
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Small Transformer for Legal-Domain EN-DE Translation
You receive a 120,000-segment parallel EN-DE legal corpus and a held-out 1,000-segment test set with reference translations. Fine-tune a small pretrained Transformer (e.g., NLLB…
- Neural Mt
- Transformer
- Fine Tuning
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CodeIntermediateNewDrift-Detect and Self-Heal a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Estate
Using the estate-case-file and the baseline-policy-spec, design a drift-detection and self-heal rollout for all 28 single-customer clusters built on ArgoCD continuous-sync (auto…
- Argocd
- Kyverno
- Drift Detection
Open coursework- CodeIntermediateNew
Reason over a Climate Policy Knowledge Graph for an EU Think Tank
Design a knowledge graph schema covering regulations, member states, sectors, transposition dates, and source-document citations. Ingest a curated dataset of around 200 nodes th…
- Knowledge Graphs
- Knowledge Representation
- Rule Based Reasoning
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques - CodeIntermediateNew
Reconstruct a Heritage Facade with Structure-from-Motion
You receive 250 phone photos of the facade plus 6 ground control points measured by a surveyor (used only for metric scaling and validation, not for reconstruction). Run SfM to …
- Structure From Motion
- Multi View Stereo
- 3d Reconstruction
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Triage Medical-Imaging Annotations with a Small Vision Model
Train a binary normal/abnormal classifier on the public CheXpert or NIH ChestX-ray14 dataset. Use temperature scaling to calibrate the output, then define abstention thresholds …
- Image Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Calibration
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Multilingual Customer-Email Classifier
You receive 28,000 labeled emails (skewed toward English and Mandarin). Try at least two approaches: (1) a fine-tuned multilingual transformer (XLM-RoBERTa or mDeBERTa) and (2) …
- Text Classification
- Multilingual NLP
- Transformers
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build and Ship a Bug-Tracker MVP with Full CI/CD
Week 1: write a 1-page SRS + Figma wireframes for 5 screens (login, bug list, bug detail, file bug, dashboard). Week 2-3: implement with Next.js + Supabase + Tailwind, with unit…
- Full Stack Development
- Requirements Engineering
- Ci Cd
Software Engineering Foundations - CodeIntermediateNew
Adapt Machine Translation to a Niche Domain
Pick an open MT base (NLLB-200 or a strong open M2M model). Build a parallel corpus of around 8,000 sentence pairs from the company's bilingual safety standards. Fine-tune on th…
- Machine Translation
- Domain Adaptation
- Transformers
Natural Language Processing - CodeBeginnerNew
REST API + Admin Dashboard for a Tutoring Marketplace
Map the 5 operator workflows by shadowing 2 operators for 4 hours (recordings provided). Design REST endpoints (Open API spec) covering each workflow with role-based scopes (ope…
- REST API
- Vuejs
- Rbac
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Implement Authentication and Access Control for a Civic Portal
Receive the current Next.js + Express prototype, the data model (residents, requests, documents, audit log), and the 4 staff roles (resident, clerk, supervisor, auditor) with th…
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Rbac
Introduction to Computer Security - CodeIntermediateNew
Segment Cells from Microscopy Images for a Pharma-AI Discovery Lab
You receive 3,500 microscopy images with pixel-level cell masks plus a 200-image hold-out set re-annotated by two biologists for inter-annotator agreement. Train a U-Net or SegF…
- Semantic Segmentation
- U Net
- Pytorch
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Model Predictive Control for a Delivery Robot
You receive a kinematic bicycle model of the robot, a published track layout, and 30 minutes of recorded waypoint trajectories. Implement a nonlinear MPC controller using acados…
- Model Predictive Control
- Optimal Control
- Robotics Simulation
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Forgetting-Curve-Aware Spaced-Repetition Engine
You receive 6 months of practice logs from 8,000 learners (item, timestamp, response correctness, response latency). Fit a learner-personalized forgetting model (logistic per-it…
- Spaced Repetition
- Personalization
- Behavioral Data
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Migrate a Legacy Warehouse to a Lakehouse for an Edtech AI Platform
You receive a Postgres dump of around 50 GB and the current dbt models that produce the student-attempts mart. Land the raw data in object storage (S3 or GCS) as Parquet partiti…
- Lakehouse Architecture
- Delta Lake
- Spark
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - CodeSeniorNew
Cost-Optimize a 24/7 LLM API Cluster
Profile the current usage (24-hour trace, per-team breakdown). Pick a cost-optimization mix from: time-based autoscaling, spot/preemptible instances with graceful drain, smarter…
- LLM Serving
- Autoscaling
- Ray
ML Engineering and Production ML - CodeBeginnerNew
Predict Catalyst Properties for a Green-Hydrogen Pharma Spinout
Use an open catalyst dataset (e.g., Open Catalyst Project subset, or a Materials Project pull) where each candidate has descriptors and a target activity property. Train a tabul…
- Tabular Modeling
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Feature Engineering
AI for Science and Engineering - CodeSeniorNew
HyperLogLog Cardinality for Real-Time Ad-Auction Analytics
Implement HyperLogLog with precision parameter p in {12, 14, 16} (4KB, 16KB, 64KB sketches) and benchmark relative error on a replayed 3-hour production trace (around 13 billion…
- Hyperloglog
- Probabilistic Data Structures
- Streaming Systems
Randomized Algorithms - 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
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Physically-Based Path Tracer for a Product Visualization Studio
Build a path tracer in C++ with: ray-triangle and ray-sphere intersection on a BVH (bounding volume hierarchy), Lambertian diffuse and Cook-Torrance GGX specular BRDFs, multiple…
- Physically Based Rendering
- Path Tracing
- Shading And Lighting
Advanced Computer Graphics - CodeSeniorNew
Implement Raft Consensus for a Self-Hosted Feature-Flag Service
Implement the core Raft algorithm (leader election, log replication, snapshotting) from the original Ongaro & Ousterhout paper. Use an embedded key-value store (BoltDB or sled) …
- Raft Consensus
- Go Programming
- Grpc
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Strangler-Fig Migration of a Monolithic Order Service
Stand up an HTTP facade in front of the monolith (Nginx or a small Go proxy) that routes by URL pattern. Slice 1: extract the order-status read endpoint, dual-write nothing, rou…
- Strangler Fig Pattern
- Refactoring
- Legacy Modernization
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