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- CodeIntermediateNew
Actor-Critic for Energy-Storage Dispatch
You receive 3 years of hourly day-ahead price data and a Python simulator that models state of charge, round-trip efficiency, and a 1-day price forecast with documented uncertai…
- Actor Critic
- A2c
- Deep Rl
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Forecast Energy Demand for a Nordic Renewable Utility
You receive 5 years of hourly residential-segment demand, hourly weather data (temperature, wind, irradiance), and a calendar of public holidays. Build a probabilistic forecaste…
- Time Series Forecasting
- Probabilistic Modeling
- Feature Engineering
Applied Machine Learning - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Fairness Evaluation Harness for a Credit-Score Model
Implement a Python module that, given model predictions, ground truth, and group identifiers, computes demographic parity difference, equal-opportunity difference, predictive-pa…
- Algorithmic Fairness
- Statistical Evaluation
- Python
AI Measurement and Evaluation - CodeIntermediateNew
Distributional Embeddings for a Multilingual Legal Search
Use a public multilingual corpus (e.g., MultiEURLEX or a subset of EUR-Lex) plus a small hand-built test set of around 100 cross-lingual query-passage pairs. Fine-tune (or evalu…
- Distributional Semantics
- Multilingual NLP
- Sentence Embeddings
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- 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
Plan Under Uncertainty for a Warehouse Restocking Robot
You receive a discrete-event simulator of a 1,200-shelf warehouse with calibrated optical-scanning error rates and stock-out cost per shelf. Formulate the restocking decision as…
- Planning Under Uncertainty
- Pomdp
- Monte Carlo Planning
Advanced Robotics - CodeSeniorNew
Train a Reinforcement-Learning Policy for Drone Obstacle Avoidance
You receive a custom Gymnasium drone-flight environment (provided), a baseline hand-engineered controller, and a target evaluation suite covering 4 obstacle densities. Train a P…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Ppo
- Robotics Simulation
Open coursework - 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
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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.
- CodeIntermediateNew
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
- Gitops
- Argocd
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an End-to-End ML Pipeline for Loan-Default Prediction
You receive 24 months of historical application + outcome data (about 380,000 rows). Build a pipeline using a workflow orchestrator (Prefect, Kedro, or a simple Makefile chain) …
- Ml Pipelines
- Feature Engineering
- Pipeline Testing
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Tabular Q-Learning for Warehouse Slotting
You receive a Python discrete-event simulator with state encoded as a 12-dimensional categorical vector (around 8,000 reachable states) and 6 possible slotting actions, plus 2 y…
- Tabular Rl
- Q Learning
- Epsilon Greedy
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Implement a Constraint Solver for a Lisbon Tourism Scheduler
Model the next-week schedule as a CSP: variables are (guide, day, slot) assignments; domains are available routes; constraints encode language requirements, max consecutive tour…
- Constraint Satisfaction
- Backtracking Search
- Python
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- CodeIntermediateNew
LLM-Powered FAQ Chatbot for 40-Person SaaS Scale-up
You have access to TaskFlow's internal documentation, help articles, and a sample of 500 support tickets. Your task is to build a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline: …
- LLM
- RAG
- Information Retrieval
Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Bounded Concurrent Queue for a Microservice Worker Pool
Implement a bounded concurrent queue in Go (no third-party queue libraries; standard library + sync primitives only) that supports: Put(item) blocks when full, TryPut(item, time…
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Mutex And Condvar
- Go
Concurrent and Parallel Programming - CodeIntermediateNew
Map a Climate-Policy Corpus to Linked Open Data
You receive 12,000 policy PDFs and a benchmark of 200 documents with manually linked entities (places, organizations, policies). Build a pipeline that runs NER, candidate-genera…
- Entity Linking
- Linked Open Data
- Wikidata
Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web - CodeBeginnerNew
Full-Stack Prototype: Event Ticketing Platform with QR Validation
Build a web application using any modern stack (Next.js recommended, but React + Express, Django, or Rails are acceptable). Required features: (1) Event listing page with title,…
- Web Development
- Object Oriented Programming
- User Experience Design
Open coursework - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Design Error Recovery for a Friendly Compiler
Read the existing parser (recursive-descent, in Rust). Design and implement a panic-mode error recovery strategy with synchronization tokens (statement boundary, end of block, s…
- Error Recovery
- Recursive Descent Parsing
- Diagnostic Design
Compiler Construction - 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
De-Identify Patient Images for a Pharma Research Pipeline
You receive 500 internal benchmark images (already cleared for use), each labelled with bounding boxes around face/tattoo/jewelry regions. Build a pipeline that detects these re…
- Image De Identification
- Object Detection
- Privacy Preserving Vision
Image Processing and Computational Imaging - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Reward Model on Customer-Support Preferences
You receive 8,000 labeled preference pairs from real support conversations (each pair is two model responses with a human-chosen winner). Fine-tune a small open-weights base mod…
- Reward Modeling
- Preference Learning
- Bradley Terry Loss
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Multilingual Text-Mining Dashboard for Hotel Reviews
You receive 200,000 sampled reviews across 9 languages plus an English-only labeled benchmark of 1,000 reviews for sentiment and aspect (rooms, food, staff, value, location). Bu…
- Multilingual NLP
- Sentiment Analysis
- Aspect Extraction
Linguistic Engineering and Language Technologies - CodeIntermediateNew
Find the Dead Code Hiding in a Python Monorepo
Build a dataflow- and call-graph-based dead-code detector in Python (using libcst, or the standard ast module together with jedi) and prove it on the materials provided. Run it …
- Dataflow Analysis
- Ast
- Call Graph
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Vision-Language Search for an E-commerce Catalog
Pick a vision-language encoder (OpenCLIP, SigLIP, or BLIP-2 image-text variant). Index all 600k product images into a vector database (Qdrant/FAISS). Build a query-time pipeline…
- Vision Language Models
- Clip
- Vector Search
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