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8/15 Watch 18 min W00 Sunday Craft

Barbara Oakley · "Learning how to learn"

Sunday, before writing post 0 · Sunday, before writing post 0

Produce: One line in notes/craft/W00.md: which ritual in Part 0.3 is your diffuse-mode slot

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In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook

9/15 Watch 60 min W00 Sunday Craft

Richard Hamming · "You and Your Research"

Sunday, before writing post 0 · after Barbara Oakley · "Learning how to learn" · Only if you prefer voice to text — it replaces R1, it does not add to it. Play at 1.25× while packing the cockpit

Produce: Same output as R1

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In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook

10/15 Watch 40 min W00 Craft

Learning How to Learn

Any block this week · Optional substitute for V1 if you want the full treatment

Produce: Nothing. Do not enrol in the whole course

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In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook

1/18 Watch 6 min W01 Monday Craft

LearnChemE (CU Boulder) · "Monod Cell Growth Example (Bio)"

Monday build block · Monday, before coding

Produce: A hand-sketched growth curve taped next to the screen

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In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook

5/18 Watch 30 min W01 Thursday Craft

3Blue1Brown · Essence of Linear Algebra

Thursday · M1 · Thursday, first

Produce: notes/ml/M1.md: what a matrix does to a vector; one example redone in NumPy

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In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook

2/15 Watch 13 min W02 Tuesday Craft

Crash Course Biology #7 · "ATP & Respiration"

Tuesday · B2 · Tuesday, first

Produce: Three lines in notes/bio/B2.md: why DO falls when biomass grows

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In: LABLOOP-W02 Notebook

4/15 Watch 25 min W02 Thursday Craft

3Blue1Brown · Essence of Calculus

Thursday · M2 · Thursday

Produce: notes/ml/M2.md: what a derivative is, in your own words

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5/15 Watch 22 min W02 Thursday Craft

StatQuest · "Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Step-by-Step"

Thursday · M2 · after 3Blue1Brown · Essence of Calculus · Before Friday's PCA code

Produce: The 3-line explanation of scores vs loadings you will paste into Sunday's post

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In: LABLOOP-W02 Notebook

5/20 Watch 17 min W03 Thursday Craft

3Blue1Brown · "Eigenvectors and eigenvalues"

Thursday · M3 · Thursday, first

Produce: One sentence in notes/ml/M3.md: what last Friday's principal components actually are

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6/20 Watch 7 min W03 Thursday Craft

StatQuest · "Machine Learning Fundamentals: Bias and Variance"

Thursday · M3 · after 3Blue1Brown · "Eigenvectors and eigenvalues" · Thursday, after V4

Produce: The bias-variance sentence in notes/ml/M3.md

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In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook

7/20 Watch 13 min W03 Thursday Craft

StatQuest · "Linear Regression, Clearly Explained!!!"

Thursday · M3 · after StatQuest · "Machine Learning Fundamentals: Bias and Variance" · Thursday, after V2

Produce: One regression fitted on two IndPenSim variables and read aloud: slope, intercept, what it means

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In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook

1/17 Watch 10 min W04 Tuesday Craft

Khan Academy · "Fermentation and anaerobic respiration"

Tuesday · B4 · Tuesday, first

Produce: One paragraph in notes/bio/B4.md: "what is a fermentation, really"

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In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook

3/17 Watch 6 min W04 Thursday Craft

StatQuest · "Machine Learning Fundamentals: Cross Validation"

Thursday · M4 · Thursday, first

Produce: The sentence "why random k-fold is wrong for batch data" in notes/ml/M4.md

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In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook

3/16 Watch 13 min W05 Tuesday Biology

Crash Course Biology #11 "DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word Ever"

Tuesday · after OpenStax Biology 2e

Crash Course Biology #11 "DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word Ever" (YouTube, 13 min)

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11/16 Watch 25 min W05 Craft

StatQuest "Regularization Part 1: Ridge (L2) Regression"

StatQuest "Regularization Part 1: Ridge (L2) Regression" and "Gradient Boost Part 1: Regression Main Ideas" (YouTube, 25 min)

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2/12 Watch 50 min W07 Tuesday Biology

MIT OCW 7.016 lectures on protein structure and enzymes

MIT OCW 7.016 lectures on protein structure and enzymes (ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-016-introductory-biology-fall-2018), ~50 min

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3/12 Watch 15 min W07 Tuesday Biology

Khan Academy "Steady states and the Michaelis Menten equation"

Tuesday · after MIT OCW 7.016 lectures on protein structure and enzymes

Khan Academy "Steady states and the Michaelis Menten equation" (MCAT section) (15 min)

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4/12 Watch 40 min W12 Thursday AI & stats

Brunton & Kutz, Data-Driven Science and Engineering (2nd ed.), ch. 7 on SINDy — databookuw.com (…

Brunton & Kutz, Data-Driven Science and Engineering (2nd ed.), ch. 7 on SINDy — databookuw.com (free PDF) (40 min) + Steve Brunton "Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy)" (YouTube, 30 min)

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2/12 Watch 20 min W14 Tuesday Biology

StatQuest "False Discovery Rates, FDR, clearly explained" and "p-hacking: What it is and how to…

Tuesday · after Modern Statistics for Modern Biology ch. 6 "Testing"

StatQuest "False Discovery Rates, FDR, clearly explained" and "p-hacking: What it is and how to avoid it!" (YouTube, 20 min)

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3/12 Watch 60 min W14 Thursday AI & stats

Stanford CS336 lecture on evaluation

Stanford CS336 lecture on evaluation (cs336.stanford.edu, videos on Stanford Online YouTube) (60 min); your week 7 notes on Zheng et al. 2023 judge biases (15 min)

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1/10 Watch 60 min W15 Tuesday Biology

S. Keshav (2007), "How to Read a Paper"

S. Keshav (2007), "How to Read a Paper", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 37(3):83-84 (2 pages, 15 min); then three FermLit papers with P11 and IMRaD noted (60 min)

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3/14 Watch 40 min W16 Tuesday Biology

MIT 6.874 Deep Learning in the Life Sciences

Tuesday · after Lin et al. (2023), "Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic-level protein structure with a langu…

MIT 6.874 Deep Learning in the Life Sciences (Manolis Kellis, 2021, YouTube playlist), protein lecture (first 40 min)

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3/13 Watch 40 min W17 Thursday AI & stats

Hugging Face model card facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D

Hugging Face model card facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D (10 min) + MIT 6.874 protein lecture second half (40 min); code block with ridge head

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8/13 Watch 15 min? W17 Craft

StatQuest "Ridge vs Lasso Regression, Visualized!!!"

StatQuest "Ridge vs Lasso Regression, Visualized!!!" (YouTube) for the head you fit

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2/10 Watch 60 min W18 Thursday AI & stats

Simon Peyton Jones, "How to write a great research paper"

Simon Peyton Jones, "How to write a great research paper" (YouTube, Microsoft Research, ~1 h) + NeurIPS Paper Checklist (neurips.cc, current year's author guidelines) (30 min)

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7/10 Watch 30 min W19 Craft

StatQuest "PCA main ideas", "t-SNE, Clearly Explained" and "UMAP Dimension Reduction, Main Ideas…

StatQuest "PCA main ideas", "t-SNE, Clearly Explained" and "UMAP Dimension Reduction, Main Ideas!!!" (YouTube, 30 min) — the three plots every single-cell talk shows

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7/10 Watch 60 min W20 Craft

Patrick Winston, "How to Speak"

Patrick Winston, "How to Speak" (MIT OCW / YouTube, ~1 h) — watch Saturday; it prepares both the mock sessions and the talk proposal

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8/13 Watch 15 min? W21 Craft

iBiology, "Uri Alon: How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem"

iBiology, "Uri Alon: How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem" (verify; talk version)

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6/10 Watch 15 min? W22 Craft

StatQuest "Spearman's Rank Correlation" if needed

StatQuest "Spearman's Rank Correlation" if needed (search; verify) and "Bootstrapping Main Ideas" (carry over)

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5/9 Watch 15 min W23 Craft

Khan Academy / Crash Course refresh on protein folding and denaturation ("why heat unfolds prote…

Khan Academy / Crash Course refresh on protein folding and denaturation ("why heat unfolds proteins") (15 min)

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In: LABLOOP-W23 Notebook

7/10 Watch 20 min W27 Craft

Y Combinator Startup School, "How to Talk to Users"

Y Combinator Startup School, "How to Talk to Users" (Eric Migicovsky, YouTube, ~20 min)

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4/7 Watch 30 min W29 Craft

Coursera Process Mining: Data Science in Action

Coursera Process Mining: Data Science in Action (Eindhoven), week 1 lecture on event logs (30 min) — cycle time from timestamps is process mining in miniature

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In: LABLOOP-W29 Notebook

3/10 Watch 15 min? W30 Tuesday Biology

StatQuest "Statistical Power"

Tuesday · after Cumming (2014) "The new statistics"

StatQuest "Statistical Power" (carry over)

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1/12 Watch 15 min W34 Tuesday Biology

Lewis et al. (2020), "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks"

Lewis et al. (2020), "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks", NeurIPS, abstract + figure 1 (15 min)

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2/12 Watch 30 min W34 Tuesday Biology

Es et al. (2023), "RAGAS: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation"

Tuesday · after Lewis et al. (2020), "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks"

Es et al. (2023), "RAGAS: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation", arXiv:2309.15217 (30 min)

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3/12 Watch 30 min W34 Tuesday Biology

Stanford CS224N lecture on retrieval/RAG

Tuesday · after Es et al. (2023), "RAGAS: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation"

Stanford CS224N lecture on retrieval/RAG (web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n; verify current lecture list) (30 min)

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3/6 Watch 60 min W38 Craft

Patrick Winston, "How to Speak"

Patrick Winston, "How to Speak" (MIT OCW / YouTube, ~1 h; re-watch the first 30 min)

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4/6 Watch 15 min? W38 Craft

Simon Peyton Jones, "How to give a great research talk"

Simon Peyton Jones, "How to give a great research talk" (Microsoft Research, YouTube)

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3/6 Watch 30 min W40 Craft

Bill Burnett & Dave Evans, Designing Your Life (book, paid) — chapters on "odyssey plans"

Bill Burnett & Dave Evans, Designing Your Life (book, paid) — chapters on "odyssey plans" and "choosing well"; or Bill Burnett's TEDx talk "Designing Your Life" (YouTube, free) (30 min)

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