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- CodeIntermediateNew
Dynamic Programming for an IoT Battery Allocator
Read the device spec (32 KB RAM, 200 mAh daily budget, 9 sensing modes with mAh cost and farmer-value scores) and formulate the daily allocation as a 0/1 knapsack DP (dynamic pr…
- Dynamic Programming
- Algorithm Analysis
- C Programming
Algorithm Design and Analysis - 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
Advanced Algorithms - 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 - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech-to-Text Quality for a Contact-Center Analytics Vendor
You receive 200 anonymized call-recording snippets (2-4 minutes each, ~67 per language) with reference transcripts plus a domain glossary of about 600 product terms. Run all thr…
- Speech Recognition
- Sequence Models
- Model Evaluation
Machine Perception Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
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Why Ewance
- CodeFoundationalNew
Replace a Naive List with a Heap in a Delivery Dispatcher
Read the current dispatcher source (around 400 lines of Python). Identify the linear scan and the operations that touch it (insert, decrease-key on a re-scored courier, extract-…
- Heap Data Structure
- Complexity Analysis
- Python
Data Structures - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Bulk Synchronous Parallel PageRank on a 1.5B-Edge Graph
Choose either Apache Spark + GraphX (Pregel API) or a vanilla MPI + C++ implementation. Run 25 iterations of PageRank on the 1.5B-edge graph (graph file format provided: CSR par…
- Parallel Algorithms
- Bsp
- Graph Algorithms
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - CodeIntermediateNew
Migrate an Internal Service from REST to gRPC
Receive the existing OpenAPI spec, the Go service code, and 7 days of traffic data. Pick the top 2 RPS-by-method endpoints and design Protocol Buffers (protobuf) message + servi…
- Grpc
- Protobuf
- API Design
API Design and GraphQL - CodeIntermediateNew
Hierarchical Plans for an Aerospace Maintenance Crew Scheduler
You receive a synthetic week of 80 work orders with hierarchical decompositions, technician certifications, and shared-tool constraints. Implement an HTN planner (PyHOP or HDDL …
- Htn Planning
- Domain Modeling
- Constraint Handling
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- CodeSeniorNew
Port a Microkernel IPC Mechanism to a New Architecture
Fork the project repository and port the synchronous IPC fast path to RISC-V (RV64GC). Preserve the existing fast-path invariants: register-only message passing for messages und…
- Microkernels
- Ipc
- Risc V
Advanced Operating Systems - CodeSeniorNew
Heterogeneous Scheduling Policy for a Big.LITTLE Mobile SoC
Read the existing scheduler's energy model (provided). Design an improved policy using one or more of: per-task IPC-aware placement, exponential moving average load smoothing to…
- Multicore Architecture
- Scheduling
- Energy Modeling
Advanced Computer Architecture - 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
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
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- ResearchBeginnerNew
Hyperparameter Search via CMA-ES for a Pharma QSAR Model
You receive a labeled QSAR dataset (around 25,000 compounds, regression on a binding-affinity target), a fixed feature pipeline (Morgan fingerprints + descriptors), and the team…
- Cma Es
- Metaheuristics
- Hyperparameter Optimization
Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristic Search - 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 - AnalysisIntermediateNew
TCP Congestion Control Comparison on a Long-Fat Network
Set up two Linux test hosts in Sydney + Frankfurt cloud regions (or one host pair with tc-netem emulating 280ms RTT). Run iperf3 transfers using CUBIC and BBR at 4 loss rates (0…
- Tcp Ip
- Congestion Control
- Performance Testing
Computer Networks - CodeIntermediateNew
Parallelize a Monte Carlo Risk Engine for a Quant Hedge Fund
Profile the existing engine (C++17, single-threaded). Identify the parallelism axis (per-path independence is the obvious one — but watch for the global RNG bottleneck). Impleme…
- Parallel Algorithms
- Shared Memory
- Work Stealing
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - AnalysisIntermediateNew
GPU Roofline Model Study for a Computer Vision Inference Workload
Construct empirical roofline plots for the current GPU (A100-class) and next-gen GPU (H100-class) using vendor-published peak FLOPs and measured peak memory bandwidth. Profile t…
- Gpu Architecture
- Roofline Model
- Performance Modeling
Advanced Computer Architecture - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Variant-Calling Pipeline for a Genomics SaaS
Stand up a Nextflow pipeline covering: read trimming, BWA-MEM alignment, duplicate marking, base-quality-score recalibration, GATK HaplotypeCaller variant calling, and variant f…
- Bioinformatics
- Variant Calling
- Workflow Orchestration
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - CodeSeniorNew
Cache-Optimize a Graph-Analytics Kernel for a Social Platform
Receive the existing kernel (C++ + OpenMP, around 1,200 lines), the 1.8B-edge graph (CSR format, around 14GB), and target hardware (dual-socket AMD EPYC 9354, 384GB DDR5, 256MB …
- Cache Optimization
- Graph Algorithms
- Memory Hierarchy
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Real-Time Traffic-Sensor Fusion for a Smart Intersection
Design a fusion architecture: per-modality timestamping (NTP-disciplined within 50ms), per-modality confidence weighting (modality-specific noise model), Kalman-filter or partic…
- Sensor Fusion
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Edge Computing
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Amortized-Analysis Investigation of a Production Cache
Read the C++ cache source (around 1,800 lines, custom open-addressing with periodic resize-and-rehash). Perform amortized analysis using all three methods (aggregate, accounting…
- Amortized Analysis
- Data Structures
- Algorithm Analysis
Advanced Algorithms - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a User-Space File System with FUSE for a Storage Startup
Build a FUSE driver (your choice of Rust + fuser crate or Go + bazil/fuse) that proxies POSIX operations to the startup's existing S3-compatible REST API (mock provided). Suppor…
- File Systems
- Fuse
- Rust Programming
Operating Systems - CodeFoundationalNew
Optimize a Slow Search Function for a Recipe Marketplace
Receive the current Python function (nested loop over (recipe_title, ingredient_list) pairs), the 400k-row dataset (CSV), and 20 representative queries. Step 1: write up the cur…
- Algorithm Analysis
- Big O
- Data Structures
Algorithm Design and Analysis - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Multi-Level Feedback Queue Scheduler in xv6
Fork the xv6-riscv repository and implement MLFQ in proc.c with 3 priority queues, per-queue time slices (10ms / 20ms / 40ms), priority demotion on slice exhaustion, and a 100ms…
- Operating Systems
- Scheduling
- C Programming
Operating Systems
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