Starting off the midterm

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+# Midterm
+
+- There are three products (both built using quarto):
+  - (30%) A short 5 min presentation and
+  - (70%) A report.
+  - (100% -- a must) A repository hosting the project
+
+- The report should describe two things: A problem/analysis/method to address
+using the methods taught in class and a strategy about how to approach it.
+
+- The structure should be the following: Introduction to the problem (~1 page),
+Description of the solution plan (~1 page) and some example code with prototypes
+or a first attack featuring (a) some data (simulated or not), (b) one or more
+functions, and (c) the execution of the functions (~1 page of text + outcomes);
+the code and figures used can go above that). **Page-count within 3-5**.
+The values of the three sections are split evenly (1/3 of the grade each).
+
+- The first day will be a hackathon, and the second will be a presentation.
+
+- The midterm should be on a separate repository than the class's.
+
+The code should incorporate the content of at least three topics, including:
+
+- Rcpp
+- Simulation and timing
+- vectorization
+- data.table
+- parallel computing
+