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Design Safe Navigation Behavior for a Hospital Delivery Robot
You receive a dataset of 200 anonymized hospital corridor traces (people positions over time from the robot's LIDAR) plus the current planner's parameters. Design a policy that …
- Human Aware Navigation
- Ros2
- Motion Planning
Human-Robot Interaction - CodeIntermediateNew
Deploy SDN-Based Network Slicing for a Telco Operator
Receive the current transport architecture (P4-programmable switches, ONOS controller cluster), the 3 customer-class SLAs (consumer: best-effort 50 Mbps; enterprise IoT: 5 Mbps …
- Sdn
- Onos
- Mininet
Advanced Computer Networks - 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
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Transformer for Customer-Support Triage at an Enterprise AI Vendor
You receive 240,000 labeled support tickets across 14 queues, with English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Tagalog. Fine-tune a multilingual transformer encoder (XLM-RoBERTa-base is a st…
- Transformers
- Fine Tuning
- Multilingual NLP
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- AnalysisSeniorNew
Diagnose and Fix Query-Planner Misestimates in a FinTech Warehouse
For each of the 6 queries, capture EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) and compare estimated vs actual rows at each node. Identify the misestimate source per query (single-column stats s…
- Query Optimization
- Postgresql Planner
- Extended Statistics
Advanced Database Systems - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Bundled Pricing Business Case for an Industrial IoT Vendor
Using the company facts in the company case file, the historical deal records in the deal-history dataset, and the required sections listed in the board business case template, …
- Business Case
- Financial Modeling
- Pricing Strategy
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Investigate Why Our Generative Model Memorizes Training Data
Pick a small open-source diffusion model (e.g., a Stable-Diffusion-class community model trained on LAION-subset). Reproduce a published membership-inference + extraction probe …
- Generative Models
- Memorization Analysis
- Differential Privacy
Advanced Deep Learning - StrategyIntermediateNew
Decompose a CRM Monolith into Bounded Services
Analyze the monolith using NDepend or similar (provided). Identify the top 4-6 candidate service boundaries based on coupling + business-capability seams (likely: Quotation, Pol…
- Strangler Fig Pattern
- Service Decomposition
- Csharp Programming
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CodeBeginnerNewBuild a Search-Based Delivery Router for a Madrid Grocery Startup
Build a Python service that exposes a single /route endpoint. It accepts a courier's starting location, a list of delivery stops, and a traffic window, and returns the stops in …
- Search Algorithms
- Intelligent Agents
- Python Programming
Open coursework- ResearchIntermediateNew
Reproduce a Vision-Model Paper Under a Reproducibility Standard
Pick a vision-model paper from CVPR or NeurIPS 2024-2025 with publicly available code and a manageable compute footprint (single-GPU under 24 hours). Reproduce the headline metr…
- Reproducibility
- Experimental Design
- Model Evaluation
AI Measurement and Evaluation - CodeBeginnerNew
Tune Autoscaling for a Cost-Sensitive Workload with HPA + KEDA
Receive the service's current Deployment + HorizontalPodAutoscaler config (static 12-20 replicas), 90 days of traffic logs + Kafka-lag metrics, and the SLA (p99 < 250ms, error r…
- Kubernetes
- Autoscaling
- Keda
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - CodeIntermediateNew
Design an Event-Sourced Inventory System for a Third-Party Warehouse
Working from the operations case file and the warehouse domain specification, design an event model of twelve to fifteen events that covers the warehouse lifecycle (receive, put…
- Event Sourcing
- Cqrs
- Eventstoredb
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StrategyFoundationalNewStrategy Memo on AI in University Assessments
You receive: the current academic-integrity policy, faculty survey data from 320 academic staff, a student survey of 1,800 students, and 3 case studies of how peer universities …
- Education Policy
- Ai Strategy
- Assessment Design
AI in Education and Learning Analytics- CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Change-Data-Capture Pipeline for an E-Commerce Reseller
Receive the MySQL schema (220 tables), 7 days of binlog samples, and the data team's freshness + correctness requirements. Design the CDC pipeline: Debezium for MySQL binlog cap…
- Change Data Capture
- Debezium
- Kafka
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - StrategyIntermediateNew
Ship a Lean Flood-Insurance MVP and Convert Two Nordic Pilots
Working only from the materials provided, frame the build using Build-Measure-Learn from the Lean Startup reference, and name the single riskiest assumption you will test first …
- Lean Startup
- Venture Building
- Mvp Design
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Quantize a CNN for Battery-Powered Wildlife Cameras at a Climate Nonprofit
You receive an FP32 CNN (MobileNetV2 fine-tuned to 22 species, around 13 MB) and a hold-out test set of 4,000 images. Quantize to int8 (post-training quantization first, then qu…
- Quantization
- Qat
- Edge Deployment
Deep Learning - StrategyBeginnerNew
IDE-Assisted Refactoring Bootcamp for a Junior Backend Team
Design a 5-day curriculum centered on 10 katas chosen for refactoring-pattern coverage (e.g., Gilded Rose for replace-conditional-with-polymorphism, Tennis kata for extract-meth…
- Refactoring
- Katas
- Ide Tooling
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build the Risk, Budget, and Milestone Plan for a Mobile Bank Launch
Work only from the three materials provided: the launch brief, the regulatory obligations register, and the vendor and staffing cost sheet. From the launch brief and the regulat…
- Risk Management
- Regulatory Planning
- Scheduling
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Prune and Distill a Speech Model for a Hearable
You receive a trained 280 KB CNN keyword spotter (10 keywords + silence + unknown) with 96.1% top-1 accuracy on the Google Speech Commands test set. Apply structured pruning (ch…
- Pruning
- Knowledge Distillation
- Model Compression
Edge ML and On-Device Machine Learning - CodeBeginnerNew
Implement a User-Space Shell with Process and Signal Handling
Implement a shell in C (no shell helpers, just POSIX system calls). Required features: read a line, parse it into commands + arguments, handle pipelines with arbitrary chain len…
- System Calls
- Process Management
- Signal Handling
Computer Systems and Organization - CodeSeniorNew
Formally Specify and Model-Check a Payment Rate-Limit Service in TLA+
Using the incident record (INCIDENT-FILE), the protocol design note (PROTOCOL-NOTE), and the representative coordinator module (COORDINATOR-MODULE) provided to you, write a TLA+…
- Tla Plus
- Formal Specification
- Model Checking
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Build a Tic-Tac-Toe-Style Game Agent for an Edtech Demo
Implement Connect-Four (7-column, 6-row board) in Python plus a minimax agent with alpha-beta pruning, configurable search depth, and a simple heuristic evaluation function for …
- Game Playing Ai
- Minimax
- Alpha Beta Pruning
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - CodeIntermediateNew
Tune a Multicore Pipeline with NUMA-Aware Sharding
Receive the current worker (Rust, around 8,000 lines, uses rayon for its parallelism), the host (2-socket AMD EPYC 9354, 64 cores total, 384GB DDR5), and a benchmark query workl…
- Parallel Performance
- Numa
- Rust
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing - 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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