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Build a working backend, frontend, integration, or data pipeline against a real-shaped spec.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Canary Deployments via Mesh Traffic Splitting for a Streaming Platform
Set up Flagger with Istio as the traffic provider. Define a canary policy for the playback-API service: 5 percent → 25 percent → 50 percent → 100 percent with 5-minute bake at e…
- Istio
- Flagger
- Canary Deployment
Service Mesh and Microservices Networking - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Wake-Word Detector for a Smart-Speaker Startup
You receive a small public Japanese-speech dataset, 30 hours of recorded wake-phrase utterances from 50 volunteers, and 200 hours of background-noise recordings. Train a lightwe…
- Keyword Spotting
- Speech Recognition
- On Device Ml
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Transformer for Customer-Support Triage at an Enterprise AI Vendor
You receive 240,000 labeled support tickets across 14 queues, with English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Tagalog. Fine-tune a multilingual transformer encoder (XLM-RoBERTa-base is a st…
- Transformers
- Fine Tuning
- Multilingual NLP
Deep Learning - 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
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Bloom Filter Cache to Cut Origin Load at a CDN Edge
Given a target false-positive rate of 1 percent at 200 million keys per shard, compute the optimal bit-array size (m) and hash-function count (k) using the canonical formulas. I…
- Bloom Filters
- Probabilistic Data Structures
- Hash Functions
Randomized Algorithms - CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Node.js Service into Scala with Effect Systems
Take the existing Node.js price-normalization code (provided). Rewrite in Scala 3 using ZIO (or Cats Effect) — model every effect explicitly (IO for side effects, Either or type…
- Scala Programming
- Zio Effects
- Cats Effect
Functional Programming - CodeIntermediateNew
Instrument Network Telemetry for an ISP's Backbone
Receive the backbone topology (12 routers across 4 PoPs, mix of Cisco IOS XR + Juniper Junos), the current SNMP-based monitoring stack, and 4 weeks of customer-complaint tickets…
- Network Telemetry
- Gnmi
- Kafka
Advanced Computer Networks - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Sequence Model for Sign-Language Word Recognition
You receive about 12,000 short (1-3s) webcam clips covering a 50-word vocabulary, with body+hand pose features pre-extracted (e.g., MediaPipe Holistic landmarks per frame). Buil…
- Sequence Models
- Transformer
- Pose Estimation
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Constitutional AI Critique Loop for Hallucination Reduction
You receive the meal-planning prompts (60 test cases with dietary constraints), an unrevised baseline (single-pass instruction-tuned model), and an empty nutrition-constraint co…
- Constitutional Ai
- Self Critique
- Alignment Prompting
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Prototype a Computer-Vision QA Tool for a Robotics Manufacturer
As a 4-person team, build: (1) a labeling pipeline on around 2,000 component images (Label Studio is fine); (2) a transfer-learned classifier or a small segmentation model that …
- Computer Vision
- Transfer Learning
- Model Deployment
AI Software Engineering Group Project - CodeBeginnerNew
Compare MDP Solvers for a Smart-Grid Battery Dispatch Pilot
Model home-battery dispatch as a finite MDP: state is (state-of-charge, hour-of-day, current price tier), actions are charge/hold/discharge with realistic efficiency losses, tra…
- Markov Decision Processes
- Value Iteration
- Policy Iteration
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques - 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
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- 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
Web Application Development - CodeIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a 3B Open-Weight Model for Customer Support Triage
You receive 40,000 anonymized labelled support tickets across 18 categories. Fine-tune a 3B open-weight model using parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA) for the classification…
- Lora Fine Tuning
- Open Weight Llms
- Classification
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
- Embeddings
- Clip
Deep Learning for Computer Vision - CodeIntermediateNew
Refactor a Tangled Order Aggregate at a Logistics Platform
Work in the provided Spring Boot 3 + Java 21 codebase. Identify the true aggregate roots (likely candidates: Order, Shipment, Invoice) and split the god object accordingly. Extr…
- Tactical Ddd
- Aggregate Design
- Java Refactoring
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Tune an Intrusion-Detection Rule Pack for Manufacturing PLCs
Work entirely from the five provided materials. Using the packet captures (M1) and the labeled event manifest (M2), characterize normal Modbus/TCP and Ethernet/IP behavior for t…
- Intrusion Detection
- Ics Security
- Suricata
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Math Intelligent-Tutoring Assistant for High Schoolers
You receive: a curated set of 40 algebra problems with worked solutions, the company's pedagogy rubric ('hint, don't reveal' principle), and a baseline 'just answer' chatbot for…
- Intelligent Tutoring
- Prompt Engineering
- LLM Agents
AI in Education and Learning Analytics - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Product Knowledge Graph for a Fast-Fashion Retailer
You receive 200 sample SKUs across 4 markets (Spain, Germany, Japan, Brazil) as CSVs with country-specific attribute names. Design an OWL ontology with shared classes for Produc…
- Knowledge Graphs
- Owl Ontology
- Rdf
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Finetune a Diffusion Model for Sustainable-Fashion Mockups
You receive 1,200 product photos with paired captions and the brand's style guide. Fine-tune a Stable-Diffusion-class base model with LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation, a parameter-effi…
- Diffusion Models
- Lora Finetuning
- Pytorch
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Python Data Pipeline for Spotify Listening Trends
Write a Python script (or Jupyter notebook) that reads the provided CSV files (4 weeks of Spotify Top 200 data), cleans inconsistencies (missing artists, duplicate entries, enco…
- Object Oriented Programming
- Data Analytics
- Statistics
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Differentially Private Classifier on Medical Records
Use Opacus (PyTorch DP-SGD library). Train a tabular classifier (small MLP + gradient-boosted features) with DP-SGD at the agreed epsilon/delta. Run an accuracy-vs-privacy front…
- Differential Privacy
- Dp Sgd
- Opacus
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Big Data Dashboard for Urban Mobility Patterns
Using the provided sample dataset (100K anonymized trip records with timestamps, origin/destination coordinates, transport mode, and duration), build a dashboard prototype. Requ…
- Data Analytics
- Digital Business Models
- Web Development
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