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1/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

Richard W. Hamming, You and Your Research, Bell Communications Research Colloquium, 7 March 1986…

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It is the argument for why a 40-week plan aimed at one thesis beats 40 weeks of interesting side quests — the exact failure mode your ADHD brain is best at

Read exactly: The passage on "important problems" (why most scientists never work on one) and the passage on open door vs closed door

Produce: 5 lines in notes/craft/W00.md: the one important problem you are choosing, and the two you are refusing

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2/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

Uri Alon, "How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem", Molecular Cell 35(6):726-728, 2009. DOI 10.…

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You will reuse that chart in week 21 to scope Paper 3 with a partner. Learn it now, cheaply

Read exactly: Whole paper, 2 pages — especially the feasibility × interest chart

Produce: Place FermLit on the feasibility/interest chart, one paragraph, into notes/craft/W00.md

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3/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

Wilson G. et al., "Good enough practices in scientific computing", PLOS Computational Biology 13…

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Justifies, in one sitting, every folder you create today (data/raw read-only and never committed, reports/figures regenerated)

Read exactly: Sections "Data management" and "Project organization" only

Produce: Copy the two directory checklists into the README skeletons of batchlens and fermlit

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11/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

The Turing Way handbook

Your week-4 DOI release and week-36 JOSS submission are graded against exactly these habits

Read exactly: "Guide for Reproducible Research" → the overview chapter only; browse the table of contents

Produce: Two checklists saved to PARKING.md, not acted on yet

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2/18 Read 30 min? W01 Monday Craft

SciPy docs, scipy.integrate.solve_ivp

Monday build block · after LearnChemE (CU Boulder) · "Monod Cell Growth Example (Bio)"

Replace predator-prey with biomass-substrate and Monday's task is mostly done

Read exactly: The Examples section only, especially the Lotka-Volterra style system

Produce: The working ODE skeleton in batchlens/sim/monod.py

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3/18 Read 30 min? W01 Tuesday Craft

OpenStax Biology 2e, 6.5 Enzymes

Tuesday · B1

Enzyme + substrate is literally the shape of the Monod term S/(Ks+S) you code on Monday

Read exactly: Whole section, plus the chapter-6 review questions reachable from Ch. 6 Introduction if time allows

Produce: 5 questions at the end of notes/bio/B1.md; answer them yourself next week

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4/18 Read 30 min? W01 Wednesday Craft

eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.python README

Wednesday build block

Wednesday's telemetry hop, nothing more

Read exactly: "Publish a single message" example

Produce: The publisher in the Wednesday artifact

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1/15 Read 30 min? W02 Monday Craft

Goldrick S. et al., "The development of an industrial-scale fed-batch fermentation simulation",…

Monday build block · Read it inside Monday's build block

This is the paper behind the dataset you are tidying. Paper 2 will cite it

Read exactly: Abstract, all figures, and section 2 (the model)

Produce: Five lines in notes/bio/B2.md: which state variables the simulator actually integrates

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3/15 Read 30 min? W02 Wednesday Craft

Goldrick S. et al., "Modern day monitoring and control challenges outlined on an industrial-scal…

Wednesday build block

Your whole week-03 alarm evaluation depends on knowing which batches are the faulty ones — and on the licence for redistribution

Read exactly: Abstract + the dataset section: how many batches, which are faulty, how faults are labelled, what the Raman block is

Produce: A variable table (name, unit, online/offline) and the fault list, with quoted sentences and their page numbers

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1/20 Read 30 min? W03 Monday Craft

NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods

Monday build block

The public, citable reference for the limits you compute on Monday. Phase I vs Phase II is the distinction that stops you fooling yourself

Read exactly: 6.3.4 What are multivariate control charts? → 6.5.4.3 Hotelling's T² → 6.5.4.3.6 Constructing multivariate charts

Produce: The limit formula, with its source URL, in a comment above the code that implements it

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2/20 Read 30 min? W03 Monday Craft

NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook ch. 6.5 "Tutorials: multivariate control charts"

Monday build block · after NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods · Read it inside Monday's build block

Build-block reading · NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook ch. 6.5 "Tutorials: multivariate control charts" — https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmc/section3/pmc34.htm (sections 6.3.4 and 6.5.4.3)

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3/20 Read 30 min? W03 Tuesday Craft

OpenStax Microbiology, ch. 9 "Microbial Growth"

Tuesday · B3

You will discover your week-01 Monod model already explains the log phase — and what it does not explain

Read exactly: The growth-curve section only (lag, log, stationary, death). Oxygen, temperature and pH are parked

Produce: notes/bio/B3.md + a hand-drawn growth curve photographed into the notes

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4/20 Read 30 min? W03 Wednesday Craft

erdogant/pca README

Wednesday build block

A second implementation to compare against. Compare numbers, never copy them without understanding

Read exactly: The Hotelling T² / SPE outlier section

Produce: One line in review.md: do your limits agree with theirs, and if not, why

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2/17 Read 30 min? W04 Wednesday Craft

GitHub Docs, "Referencing and citing content" and "About CITATION files"; format spec at citatio…

Wednesday build block

This is the literal procedure for Friday's DOI badge. Read it once, follow it exactly

Read exactly: The Zenodo-integration steps and the minimal CITATION.cff fields

Produce: CITATION.cff in the repo root and a rendering DOI badge in the README

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4/17 Read 30 min? W04 Thursday Craft

Kapoor S. & Narayanan A., "Leakage and the reproducibility crisis in machine-learning-based scie…

Thursday · M4 · after StatQuest · "Machine Learning Fundamentals: Cross Validation"

The single best paper on the exact mistake that would invalidate Paper 2. Cite it in week 08 and week 18

Read exactly: The taxonomy of eight leakage types; identify which one batch-wise CV prevents

Produce: One paragraph in the README's honest "Where it fails" section naming the leakage type you guarded against

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1/16 Read 30 min? W05 Monday Craft

Europe PMC REST API docs

Monday build block · Read it inside Monday's build block

Build-block reading · Europe PMC REST API docs — europepmc.org/RestfulWebService (search syntax, OPEN_ACCESS:y, fullTextXML)

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1/12 Read 30 min? W06 Monday Craft

Datasheets for Datasets: Gebru et al.

Monday build block · Read it inside Monday's build block

Build-block reading · Datasheets for Datasets: Gebru et al. (2021), Communications of the ACM 64(12):86-92. The questions your guidelines and dataset card must answer

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1/12 Read 30 min? W07 Monday Craft

Zheng et al. (2023), "Judging LLM-as-a-judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena"

Monday build block · Read it inside Monday's build block

Build-block reading · Zheng et al. (2023), "Judging LLM-as-a-judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena", NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks, sections 1-3 (judge biases you must avoid in week 14)

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1/11 Read 30 min? W10 Monday Craft

McHugh

Monday build block · Read it inside Monday's build block

Build-block reading · McHugh (2012) kappa paper (carry over from week 6), results interpretation table

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1/12 Read 30 min? W11 Monday Craft

Hugging Face "Dataset Cards" documentation

Monday build block · Read it inside Monday's build block

Build-block reading · Hugging Face "Dataset Cards" documentation (huggingface.co/docs/hub/datasets-cards)

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1/12 Read 30 min? W12 Monday Craft

Brunton, Proctor & Kutz

Monday build block · Read it inside Monday's build block

Build-block reading · Brunton, Proctor & Kutz (2016), "Discovering governing equations from data by sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems", PNAS 113(15):3932-3937 (abstract + figure 1)

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1/13 Read 30 min? W13 Monday Craft

Mensh & Kording (2017), "Ten simple rules for structuring papers"

Monday build block · Read it inside Monday's build block

Build-block reading · Mensh & Kording (2017), "Ten simple rules for structuring papers", PLoS Computational Biology 13(9):e1005619

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8/12 Read 30 min? W14 Craft

Writing · Coursera Writing in the Sciences

Writing · Coursera Writing in the Sciences (Stanford), modules 1-2 (cutting clutter, active voice) — watch at 1.5x during Saturday buffer if needed

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1/14 Read 30 min? W16 Monday Craft

bioRxiv submission guide

Monday build block · Read it inside Monday's build block

Build-block reading · bioRxiv submission guide (biorxiv.org/submit-a-manuscript)

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7/13 Read 15 min W21 Craft

Uri Alon (2009), "How to choose a good scientific problem"

Uri Alon (2009), "How to choose a good scientific problem" (third reading; this time fill his feasibility/interest chart for Paper 3) (15 min)

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6/9 Read 30 min? W24 Craft

LabXchange simulations on protein expression/purification or enzyme assays

LabXchange simulations on protein expression/purification or enzyme assays (search the library; verify availability) so the partner's words land on a picture

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7/12 Read 30 min? W25 Craft

Piepho, Büchse & Emrich (2003), "A hitchhiker's guide to mixed models for randomized experiments"

Piepho, Büchse & Emrich (2003), "A hitchhiker's guide to mixed models for randomized experiments", Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 189:310-322 (skim sections 1-3)

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3/6 Read 30 min? W28 Craft

Your own v4 Part 4 pricing hypotheses and Part 3.3 culture filter

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4/6 Read 30 min? W28 Craft

AFIP/ARCA guidance on issuing invoices as an independent professional in Argentina

AFIP/ARCA guidance on issuing invoices as an independent professional in Argentina (verify current rules with an accountant; this plan does not give tax advice)

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6/10 Read 20 min W30 Craft

Weissgerber et al. (2015), "Beyond bar and line graphs: time for a new data presentation paradigm"

Weissgerber et al. (2015), "Beyond bar and line graphs: time for a new data presentation paradigm", PLoS Biology 13(4):e1002128 (20 min)

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3/5 Read 30 min? W32 Craft

bioRxiv submission guide

bioRxiv submission guide (carry over); co-author's institution's preprint policy (ask)

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4/7 Read 20 min W37 Craft

For pilots: re-read your audit readout and the client's success metric definition

For pilots: re-read your audit readout and the client's success metric definition (20 min)

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3/6 Read 30 min? W39 Craft

v4 Part 4

v4 Part 4 (portfolio package) and Part 9.4 (funds)

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4/6 Read 30 min? W39 Craft

Bruce Booth, Life Sci VC

Bruce Booth, Life Sci VC (lifescivc.com) — one post on portfolio support or milestones (search)

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4/6 Read 30 min W40 Craft

Richard Hamming, You and Your Research

Richard Hamming, You and Your Research (final re-read; compare your week 0 notes) (30 min)

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