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- CodeIntermediateNew
Ship a Knapsack Battery Allocator for Farm Sensors
Using the device specification (device-spec), the sensing-mode table (sensing-modes), the month of simulated farm days (simulated-farm-days), and the reference greedy heuristic …
- Dynamic Programming
- Algorithm Analysis
- C Programming
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Design an Effort-Aware Bike Routing Feature for Lisbon
Working only from the provided materials — the Lisbon street-graph edges (lisbon-bike-graph), the matching node coordinates and elevations (lisbon-graph-nodes), the 50 origin-de…
- Graph Algorithms
- Dijkstra
- Algorithm Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Is the Optimal Vet-Scheduling Feature Computationally Tractable?
Working only from the materials provided — the product feature specification, the de-identified internal record of the customer request, a representative one-day appointment dat…
- Np Completeness
- Complexity Theory
- Algorithm Analysis
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Min-Cost Max-Flow for Cloud Workload Placement
Receive 30 days of anonymized placement requests (workload CPU/memory shape, affinity rules), zone capacity per day, and cross-zone bandwidth costs. Model the placement as a min…
- Network Flows
- Algorithm Analysis
- Graph Algorithms
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- DesignSeniorNew
Provably Fair Approximation Algorithm for a Neobank On-Call Roster
Using the roster problem specification (roster-problem-spec), formalize the weekly on-call assignment as a constrained multi-week optimization problem, prove it is NP-hard by re…
- Approximation Algorithms
- Linear Programming
- Np Completeness
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Amortized-Analysis Investigation of a Production Telemetry Cache
Working only from the three provided materials — the de-identified incident record (incident-record), the representative cache source module (cache-source), and the recorded ope…
- Amortized Analysis
- Data Structures
- Algorithm Analysis
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement and Tune HyperLogLog for Trace-Stream Cardinality in Go
Working from the HyperLogLog paper (provided as a real source) and the provided representative trace sample, implement HyperLogLog from scratch in Go with no third-party algorit…
- Randomized Algorithms
- Sketching
- Algorithm Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Spectral Clustering Proposal for Customer Segmentation at Cadence
Using the provided customer usage sample, construct a similarity graph (k-nearest-neighbors with k=15 and Gaussian radial-basis-function edge weights), compute the normalized gr…
- Spectral Methods
- Linear Algebra
- Algorithm Analysis
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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.
- CodeBeginnerNew
Build a CPU-Only Teaching Rasterizer in C++
Using the provided test-scene model file and the reference render image, implement a software rasterizer in C++ that runs only on the central processor. Build the supporting mat…
- Rasterization
- Geometric Transformations
- 3d Rendering
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Real-Time 3D Bag Configurator for Milan Brand
Produce a design proposal for an in-browser 3D bag configurator and justify every major decision against the materials provided. Use the reference 3D bag model (a real public gl…
- Webgl
- 3d Rendering
- Shading And Lighting
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Shadow Mapping in a Toy Game Engine
Add a directional-shadow-map render pass to the engine: render the scene depth from the light's perspective into a 2K depth texture, then sample it during the main pass to atten…
- Shading And Lighting
- Gpu Pipeline
- Shadow Mapping
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Mobile AR Furniture-Preview Experience for a Stockholm Retailer
Produce an engineering design proposal for an AR furniture-preview feature inside the retailer's existing mobile app, targeting either ARKit (iOS, USDZ models) or ARCore (Androi…
- Augmented Reality
- 3d Rendering
- Mobile Development
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Design a GPU-Accelerated Real-Time Wind Turbine Fleet Dashboard
Using the four provided materials, write a design proposal for the rebuilt fleet dashboard. The turbine fleet seed dataset defines the turbines you will render and how to scale …
- Webgl
- Gpu Pipeline
- Data Visualization
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 - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a UV-Preserving Mesh Simplification Pipeline for 3D-Scan-to-Web
Using the textured high-resolution meshes in the scan corpus (scan-corpus), the engineering constraints in the engineering brief (engineering-brief), the integration contract in…
- Geometry Processing
- Mesh Simplification
- 3d Rendering
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Real-Time Draped-Cloth Simulator for an Online Fashion Showroom
Build a position-based-dynamics cloth solver and wrap it in a Three.js viewer. Starting from the provided cloth-solver starter module, implement a triangulated cloth mesh with d…
- Physically Based Simulation
- 3d Rendering
- Webgl
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Rebuild a Fair Single-Selfie Avatar Pipeline at NorthRoom
Using the prior-attempt postmortem (provided), the cohort manifest (provided), the FairFace public image set (provided link), the FLAME face-model resource (provided link), and …
- Digital Humans
- Geometry Processing
- 3d Rendering
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Real-Time Global Illumination for an Indie Game
Survey 3 candidate GI techniques: voxel cone tracing (VXGI-style), screen-space GI (SSGI), and irradiance probe volumes. Pick one and justify based on quality/perf trade-offs fo…
- Physically Based Rendering
- Global Illumination
- Gpu Pipeline
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Swap a List Scan for a Min-Heap in the Dispatcher
Working only from the materials provided, your job is to make the courier-selection logic faster and to show, with evidence, that it actually got faster. First, read the de-iden…
- Heap Data Structure
- Complexity Analysis
- Python
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Choose a Hash Table or Trie for a URL-Shortener Cache
Build two caches that satisfy the contract in the cache specification (provided): one hash table using linear probing and one compressed trie, both enforcing the same two-millio…
- Hash Tables
- Trie Data Structure
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Model Bogotá's Bike-Share Network as a Graph for Overnight Rebalancing
Using only the supplied station directory, the aggregated origin-to-destination trip table, and the operations brief, build a directed weighted graph where each station is a nod…
- Graphs
- Networkx
- Shortest Path
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Queue for an Event Bus
Implement an MPSC (multi-producer single-consumer) ring-buffer queue in Go using atomic operations only — no mutexes. Prove correctness with the Go race detector across 8 produc…
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Lock Free Programming
- Go
Data Structures - CodeIntermediateNew
Index a Reference Genome with a Suffix Array in Rust
Using the reference-genome FASTA in the provided materials, build an in-memory suffix array (DC3 or SA-IS construction) over the 4-letter DNA alphabet in Rust, then implement co…
- Suffix Arrays
- String Algorithms
- Rust
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Redesign an Executive Revenue Dashboard for an E-Commerce Marketplace
Interview the CFO, the head of category, and 2 finance analysts for 30 minutes each to elicit the 6 analytic tasks the dashboard must support (e.g. month-over-month variance, ca…
- Dashboard Design
- Visual Encoding
- Task Analysis
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