Open-source ML homeworks with auto-tests - fundamental agorithms from first principles

This year I&rsquo;ve been designing homework assignments for an ML course at Skoltech (Russia&rsquo;s answer to MIT/Caltech for science and technology). After bombing more job interviews than I care to count, I think I&rsquo;ve finally figured out what I was personally missing during my studies - a deep understanding of a relatively small set of fundamental algorithms. Well, my pain is the next…