Benchmarking
If you like applying Benchmarking, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- 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 - 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
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Evaluate an Agent Suite on the SWE-Bench-Style Coding Benchmark
You receive a sandboxed set of 50 small repo-modification tasks (test-passing as the success signal). Run 3 open-source agent frameworks (e.g., OpenHands, SWE-agent, and Aider) …
- LLM Agents
- Agent Evaluation
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Temporal Planner for a Robotics Mission Operator
You receive 30 days of mission logs with task lists, time windows, and actual durations. Encode the planning problem with temporal PDDL (PDDL 2.1 durative actions) and solve wit…
- Temporal Planning
- Pddl Modeling
- Simulation
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- 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Real-Time Streaming Pipeline for Card-Fraud Scoring
Using the provided transaction-event sample, the cardholder feature snapshot, the reference scoring service, and the risk team's experiment specification, build a stream-process…
- Stream Processing
- Kafka
- Flink
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Plan Warehouse Pick Routes with a Classical Planner
You receive a stylized warehouse map (aisle graph), 30 sample shifts of pick tasks, and the current heuristic's outputs. Write a PDDL domain + problem generator, solve with at l…
- Pddl Modeling
- State Space Search
- Classical Planning
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
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Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- 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
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
Open coursework - 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
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