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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Audit and Govern a Frankfurt Bank's Sprawling API Estate
Working only from the materials provided, examine the API estate and reach a defensible governance judgment. Read the situation record (estate-situation-file) to understand how …
- API Governance
- Openapi Spec
- Dora Compliance
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Run a Monte Carlo Tree Search Strategy for a Robotics Pick-and-Place Task
You receive a simulator of the pick-and-place task: a bin with 10 randomly-placed parts, an action space of which part to pick next, and a reward = parts picked per minute with …
- Monte Carlo Tree Search
- Planning
- Simulation
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Raft Consensus Layer for Multi-Region Active-Active Replication
Using the engineering brief, the production fault profile, and the starter Go module declared in the provided materials, design and build a Raft-based consensus layer and prove …
- Distributed Consensus
- Raft
- Fault Tolerance
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design an End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Protocol for Clinicians
Using the Vireo current-architecture case file and the Signal protocol specifications listed in provided materials, design an end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol that covers…
- Applied Cryptography
- Protocol Design
- Rust
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Add Differential Privacy to a Mental-Health App's Analytics Dashboard
Wrap the analytics module in `analytics_module.py` (provided) with a differential-privacy layer built on OpenDP. Implement epsilon-delta accounting: add Laplace noise to counts …
- Differential Privacy
- Privacy Budget
- Python Programming
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Implement Raft Consensus for a Self-Hosted Feature-Flag Service
Implement the core Raft algorithm (leader election, log replication, snapshotting) from the original Ongaro & Ousterhout paper. Use an embedded key-value store (BoltDB or sled) …
- Raft Consensus
- Go Programming
- Grpc
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Validate a Foundation Model for Protein-Ligand Docking Acceleration
Pick 20 publicly available protein-ligand complexes from the PDBbind dataset (or similar public source). Use a published open-source structural foundation model (e.g., a Boltz-s…
- Foundation Model Evaluation
- Structural Biology
- Model Validation
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Detect and Defend a Government Portal Against Application-Layer DDoS
Working only from the provided incident log sample, architecture overview, and prior-incident case file, design a layered defense and prove it holds up under simulation. Build s…
- Ddos Defense
- Detection Engineering
- Waf
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Crisis Information-Flow Analysis for a Newsroom
Using the sampled propagation log and the editorial brief in the provided materials, design and partially demonstrate an analysis that reconstructs the alert's 72-hour spread as…
- Computational Journalism
- Temporal Networks
- Network Science
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Build a Restoration Workflow for a Digital Heritage Archive
You receive 50 high-resolution scans of glass plates plus 3 reference 'gold' restorations done by a senior conservator. Design a reproducible workflow combining inpainting for s…
- Image Restoration
- Inpainting
- Tone Mapping
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Bridge a Healthcare Messaging System from RabbitMQ to Kafka
Working from the provided RabbitMQ topology specification and the 30-day message-volume dataset, map each of the 24 queues to a Kafka topic and choose a sound partition key for …
- Kafka
- Rabbitmq
- Message Broker Migration
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Plan Inventory Replenishment as an MDP for an E-Commerce AI Startup
You receive 18 months of daily demand for 50 representative SKUs at one warehouse plus lead-time and unit-cost data. For one SKU at a time, formulate an MDP with state = (on-han…
- Mdp Modeling
- Value Iteration
- Dynamic Programming
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- CodeSeniorNew
Build Co-Located Mixed-Reality Engine Inspection Training
Build a Unity prototype that supports three people wearing Magic Leap 2 headsets (or Quest 3 with passthrough as a fallback) in the same physical room, all seeing one shared vir…
- Mixed Reality Applications
- Multiplayer Xr
- Shared Anchors
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Diagnose and Rebuild a Slow Recipe Search at a Marketplace Startup
Work only from the three items in the provided materials: the current search function, a representative sample of the recipe catalog, and the fixed set of representative queries…
- Algorithm Analysis
- Big O
- Data Structures
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a 90-Day Cognitive-Load Reduction Plan for Six Squads
Using the cognitive-load self-assessment instrument, the squad tool-surface inventory, and the platform stakeholder brief provided to you, design a cognitive-load reduction prop…
- Platform Engineering
- Cognitive Load
- Team Topologies
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Implement a Distance-Vector Routing Algorithm
Implement distance-vector routing in Python: each simulated router maintains a distance vector, exchanges vectors with neighbors every 1 second of simulated time, and updates it…
- Routing
- Distance Vector
- Network Simulation
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Neuro-Symbolic Question Answering on an Enterprise Knowledge Graph
You receive a curated Turtle-format knowledge graph (around 2 million triples covering organizational structure, products, projects), 200 labeled question-SPARQL pairs split 140…
- Neuro Symbolic
- Sparql
- Knowledge Graphs
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Re-segment a SaaS Customer Base by How Accounts Actually Use the Product
Using the provided usage signals dataset, engineer features that capture how deeply and how often accounts use the product (not just raw volume), standardize them, and run at le…
- Clustering
- K Means
- Hdbscan
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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Link Prediction for a B2B SaaS Account-Expansion Engine
You receive a CSV of around 80,000 accounts (existing customers + prospects) with attributes (industry, size, tech stack, geography) plus 18 months of marketing-touch and conver…
- Link Prediction
- Node Embeddings
- Node2vec
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Tune Database Consistency for a Ride-Hailing Match Engine
Working only from the materials provided, analyse why the matching glitch appears under load and argue for a consistency policy per query class. Start from the cluster topology …
- Consistency Models
- Cassandra
- Distributed Tracing
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Implement a Bootloader with Secure OTA for a Medical Wearable
Implement using MCUboot as the secondary-image bootloader. Set up an offline signing pipeline (Ed25519 keys, HSM-backed for production). Implement the OTA client: BLE file trans…
- Mcuboot
- Secure Bootloader
- Firmware Signing
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Diffusion Model for an E-commerce Product Studio
You receive 1,200 curated product + lifestyle images across 6 product categories, a brand-style guide, and the company's current studio cost per image (around EUR 18). Fine-tune…
- Diffusion Models
- Stable Diffusion
- Dreambooth
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Optimize Wind-Turbine Layout with a Genetic Algorithm
You receive a wind-speed-and-direction time series for the lease area, the polygon boundary, a minimum inter-turbine spacing constraint, and a Jensen wake model. Implement a rea…
- Genetic Algorithms
- Metaheuristics
- Constraint Handling
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