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CodeSeniorNew
Forecasting Exchange Rates for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to collect monthly data for the past 5 years for GBP/USD and EUR/USD, along with relevant predictors (interest rate differentials, inflation, GDP growth, trade bala…
- Time Series Forecasting
- Econometric Modeling
- Python
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CodeBeginnerNew
Containerize a Legacy Java Monolith and Move It to AWS ECS
Working only from the supplied materials — a representative module of the quoting application (`quote-engine-module`), a snapshot of the current web-server and routing configura…
- Containerization
- Docker
- AWS
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CodeIntermediateNew
Refactor the Untouchable ReturnsProcessor Class Safely
Start from the representative ReturnsProcessor module extract and the behavior contract supplied in the provided materials, and use the change-and-incident history to decide whe…
- Refactoring
- Mikado Method
- Characterization Testing
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CodeIntermediateNew
Wire a Knowledge Graph into a Pharma RAG Assistant
You receive: 100 internal benchmark questions with reference answers; a 50,000-document anonymized RAG index; a curated drug-target-disease KG (~80,000 triples) loaded into a tr…
- Kg Grounded RAG
- Sparql
- Entity Linking
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CodeSeniorNew
Build and Evaluate an LSM-Tree Storage Engine in Rust
Your analysis task is to complete the engine and produce an evidence-backed comparison of the two compaction strategies. Start from the 'starter-engine' Rust module and finish t…
- Lsm Tree
- Storage Engine
- Rust
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CodeIntermediateNew
Build a CodeQL Query Pack to Catch Logging of Personal Data
Using the provided personal-data source and logging-sink specification, write CodeQL data-flow queries for Java and Python that detect personal data travelling from a source (re…
- Static Analysis
- Codeql
- Data Flow Analysis
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CodeIntermediateNew
VR Switching Trainer for a Copenhagen Grid Operator's Substations
Your task is to build and evaluate one bay's switching trainer end to end, using only the materials provided. Reproduce the bay described in the bay-equipment reference sheet in…
- Vr Development
- Unity
- Xr Interaction
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CodeBeginnerNew
Train a Word-Alignment Model for Low-Resource Catalan-Aranese
You receive a 35,000-sentence Catalan-Aranese parallel corpus plus a 1,200-pair manually annotated word-alignment test set. Train (1) a classic statistical alignment baseline (e…
- Alignment
- Neural Mt
- Low Resource Mt
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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.
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CodeBeginnerNew
CI/CD Pipeline for a SaaS Monorepo with 14 Services
Set up Nx (or Turborepo) for affected-graph computation. Configure remote build cache (S3-backed) so cached steps skip across runs and developers. Parallelize jobs in GitHub Act…
- Ci Cd
- Monorepo
- Nx
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CodeSeniorNew
Build a Visual Search Prototype for Sustainable Fashion
Using the public fashion image dataset and the supplemental product metadata table provided, build an end-to-end visual search pipeline: extract a numeric fingerprint (an embedd…
- Deep Learning
- Computer Vision
- Cnn
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CodeBeginnerNew
Convert an Imperative Recommendation Service to Pure Functional Style
Take the Python ranking module (around 900 lines). Identify side-effects (DB reads, cache lookups, logging, time) and lift them to the boundary. Rewrite the ranking core in Scal…
- Scala Programming
- Pure Functions
- Functional Core Imperative Shell
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CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Pricing-Aware Scheduling Agent for Smart Thermostats
Using only the materials provided, build an intelligent agent with four working parts: perception (read the sensor history), learning (cluster each household's comfort intervals…
- Intelligent Agents
- Basic Learning
- Python Programming
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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
CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Production CI/CD Pipeline for a Fitness-Studio CRM Startup
Using the FlexDesk starter service and Dockerfile, the current-deploy case file, and the pipeline requirements spec provided, build a complete continuous integration and continu…
- Ci Cd
- Github Actions
- Container Signing
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CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Churn-Prediction Mini-Project End to End
You receive a 12-month anonymized dataset of subscriber events (logins, lesson completions, payment history, support tickets) for around 200,000 users. Define churn precisely (n…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Evaluation
- Gradient Boosting
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CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Speaker-Diarization Pipeline for a Legal-Tech Startup
You receive 20 hours of de-identified hearing audio with ground-truth speaker labels (4 speaker classes per hearing). Build a speaker-diarization pipeline (pyannote-audio or sim…
- Speaker Diarization
- Speech Recognition
- Pyannote
Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Processing
CodeIntermediateNew
Ship an Engineering-Health Dashboard for an 18-Team Org
Using the four sample data extracts (pull-request events, Linear work-item history, PagerDuty incidents, and the quarterly developer-experience survey) and the organization brie…
- Software Analytics
- Dora Metrics
- Space Framework
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CodeIntermediateNew
Safety-Critical Test Harness for an AV Planner
Use CARLA (open-source AV simulator) and encode 10 representative safety scenarios across 3 categories (cut-in, pedestrian emergence, signalized-intersection right-of-way). Writ…
- Simulation
- Scenario Testing
- Safety Evaluation
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CodeIntermediateNew
Design an SAT-Based Verifier for an Autonomous-Vehicle Test Lab
Model a simplified four-way intersection: agent positions, lights, and discrete time steps. Define 5 safety properties in propositional logic (e.g., 'no two agents in the inters…
- Sat Solving
- Logical Inference
- Formal Verification
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques
CodeBeginnerNew
Reason about Drone Mission Plans with Probabilistic Logic
Build a small Bayesian network (around 12 nodes) capturing weather, no-fly-zone proximity, battery state, operator certification, and mission risk. Implement exact inference (va…
- Bayesian Networks
- Probabilistic Inference
- Knowledge Representation
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Metered-Billing System for a Usage-Based SaaS
Build an event-ingest API (Express + Redis Streams) that receives usage events with idempotency keys. Aggregate hourly into Postgres rollups using a windowed worker that survive…
- Metered Billing
- Idempotency
- Event Aggregation
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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
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Tangled Java Pricing Engine With Design Patterns
Start from a provided Java 21 codebase with the legacy PricingEngine class, 38 example fixtures (input cart, expected price), and one failing test demonstrating a bug from last …
- Java
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
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CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Small Transformer from Scratch and Train It on Code
Implement multi-head self-attention, RMSNorm, rotary positional embeddings, and a causal LM head from scratch — no Hugging Face shortcuts for the model code (you may use Hugging…
- Transformers
- Self Attention
- Pytorch
Neural Networks for NLP

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