1/15
Read
30 min?
W00
Craft
Richard W. Hamming, You and Your Research, Bell Communications Research Colloquium, 7 March 1986…
Spare pocket 1
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
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
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.…
Spare pocket 2
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
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
3/15
Read
30 min?
W00
Craft
Wilson G. et al., "Good enough practices in scientific computing", PLOS Computational Biology 13…
Spare pocket 3
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
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
4/15
Run
30 min?
W00
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Good enough practices in scientific computing, Wilson et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2017. T…
Saturday sandbox
Good enough practices in scientific computing, Wilson et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2017. The repo habits you are setting up today, justified
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
5/15
Read
30 min?
W00
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Sandve G. et al., "Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research", PLOS Comp. Biol. 9…
Saturday sandbox
· after Good enough practices in scientific computing, Wilson et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2017. T…
Sandve G. et al., "Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research", PLOS Comp. Biol. 9(10):e1003285, 2013 — DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003285. This is week 04's reading; reading it early is allowed, re-reading it in week 04 is still required
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
6/15
Read
30 min?
W00
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Elliot Hershberg, Century of Biology newsletter
Saturday sandbox
· after Sandve G. et al., "Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research", PLOS Comp. Biol. 9…
Elliot Hershberg, Century of Biology newsletter — one essay, for where biotech is heading. (verify) search the title; no fixed URL recorded
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
7/15
Run
30 min?
W00
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
carpentries-lab/good-enough-practices
Saturday sandbox
· after Elliot Hershberg, Century of Biology newsletter
carpentries-lab/good-enough-practices — the lesson version of R3, if you would rather do it than read it
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
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
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
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
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
12/15
Run
30 min
W00
Build
astral-sh/uv
uv init batchlens && uv add numpy scipy pandas matplotlib; your environment manager for all 40 weeks
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
13/15
Run
30 min
W00
Build
ollama/ollama
ollama run qwen2.5:7b-instruct-q4_K_M "explain Monod growth in two sentences"; confirm it fits the 3050
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
14/15
Run
30 min
W00
Build
drivendataorg/cookiecutter-data-science
Read the folder structure in the README; copy only the ideas (data/raw never committed, reports/figures) into your skeletons
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
15/15
Run
30 min
W00
Build
the-turing-way/the-turing-way
Browse the "Guide for reproducible research" table of contents; save two checklists to PARKING.md
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook