4/15
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30 min?
W00
Saturday
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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
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30 min?
W00
Saturday
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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
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30 min?
W00
Saturday
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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
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30 min?
W00
Saturday
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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
6/18
Read
30 min?
W01
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
SciPy documentation for scipy.integrate.solve_ivp (the solver you will use); read the "Examples"
Saturday sandbox
SciPy documentation for scipy.integrate.solve_ivp (the solver you will use); read the "Examples" section
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
7/18
Read
30 min?
W01
Saturday
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optional
Pioreactor project docs (pioreactor.com) — see a real, open-source mini bioreactor with optical…
Saturday sandbox
· after SciPy documentation for scipy.integrate.solve_ivp (the solver you will use); read the "Examples"
Pioreactor project docs (pioreactor.com) — see a real, open-source mini bioreactor with optical density and temperature sensors; it makes "online variables" tangible
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
8/18
Read
30 min?
W01
Saturday
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optional
OpenStax Biology 2e, ch. 3 "Biological Macromolecules"
Saturday sandbox
· after Pioreactor project docs (pioreactor.com) — see a real, open-source mini bioreactor with optical…
OpenStax Biology 2e, ch. 3 "Biological Macromolecules" — 3-introduction, start at 3.1 Synthesis of Biological Macromolecules — 3.1 and the protein section; skim carbohydrates and lipids; finish on Chapter Summary. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
9/18
Watch
15 min?
W01
Saturday
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optional
Khan Academy, Energy and enzymes → Activation energy
Saturday sandbox
· after OpenStax Biology 2e, ch. 3 "Biological Macromolecules"
Khan Academy, Energy and enzymes → Activation energy (article) — One article + the practice set. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
10/18
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15 min?
W01
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Crash Course Biology #3 · "Biological Molecules — You Are What You Eat"
Saturday sandbox
· after Khan Academy, Energy and enzymes → Activation energy
Crash Course Biology #3 · "Biological Molecules — You Are What You Eat" — youtube.com/watch?v=H8WJ2KENlK0. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
11/18
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15 min?
W01
Saturday
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optional
Khan Academy (MCAT) · "Enzymes and activation energy"
Saturday sandbox
· after Crash Course Biology #3 · "Biological Molecules — You Are What You Eat"
Khan Academy (MCAT) · "Enzymes and activation energy" — khanacademy.org/…/v/enzymes-and-activation-energy. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
12/18
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15 min?
W01
Saturday
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optional
LearnChemE · "Washout Derivation in CSTR Bioreactor (Bio)"
Saturday sandbox
· after Khan Academy (MCAT) · "Enzymes and activation energy"
LearnChemE · "Washout Derivation in CSTR Bioreactor (Bio)" — watch?v=L_bzv0bbU4M. The engineer's version of what happens when the feed stops — which is exactly Friday's injected fault
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
13/18
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15 min?
W01
Saturday
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optional
MIT OCW 18.06 Linear Algebra
Saturday sandbox
· after LearnChemE · "Washout Derivation in CSTR Bioreactor (Bio)"
MIT OCW 18.06 Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang), lectures 1-3 — ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010. Only if 3Blue1Brown leaves you wanting proofs
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
14/18
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15 min?
W01
Saturday
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optional
NPTEL Bioreactors
Saturday sandbox
· after MIT OCW 18.06 Linear Algebra
NPTEL Bioreactors (Suraishkumar, IIT Madras), lecture 1 — nptel.ac.in/courses/102106053. A preview of week 09. (verify) course numbering
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
6/15
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30 min?
W02
Saturday
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optional
OpenStax Biology 2e, ch. 7 "Cellular Respiration"
Saturday sandbox
OpenStax Biology 2e, ch. 7 "Cellular Respiration" — 7-introduction — Glycolysis → citric acid cycle → oxidative phosphorylation, then 7.5 Metabolism without Oxygen. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W02 Notebook
7/15
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15 min?
W02
Saturday
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optional
3Blue1Brown · Neural Networks
Saturday sandbox
· after OpenStax Biology 2e, ch. 7 "Cellular Respiration"
3Blue1Brown · Neural Networks, ch. 1-2 — Topic page: 3blue1brown.com/topics/neural-networks. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W02 Notebook
8/15
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15 min?
W02
Saturday
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optional
Steve Brunton
Saturday sandbox
· after 3Blue1Brown · Neural Networks
Steve Brunton (@Eigensteve) · SVD series, first 3 videos — playlist PLMrJAkhIeNNSVjnsviglFoY2nXildDCcv, overview video watch?v=gXbThCXjZFM. PCA's engine explained by an engineer; you will want this again in weeks 12-17
In: LABLOOP-W02 Notebook
9/15
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30 min?
W02
Saturday
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optional
Deisenroth, Faisal & Ong, Mathematics for Machine Learning, ch. 10 "Dimensionality Reduction wit…
Saturday sandbox
· after Steve Brunton
Deisenroth, Faisal & Ong, Mathematics for Machine Learning, ch. 10 "Dimensionality Reduction with PCA" — free PDF at mml-book.github.io
In: LABLOOP-W02 Notebook
10/15
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15 min?
W02
Saturday
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optional
Ninja Nerd · glycolysis and Krebs cycle lectures
Saturday sandbox
· after Deisenroth, Faisal & Ong, Mathematics for Machine Learning, ch. 10 "Dimensionality Reduction wit…
Ninja Nerd · glycolysis and Krebs cycle lectures (long, whiteboard) — channel search by title, only if respiration is still abstract. (verify) no fixed video ID recorded
In: LABLOOP-W02 Notebook
11/15
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30 min?
W02
Saturday
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optional
industrialpenicillinsimulation.com
Saturday sandbox
· after Ninja Nerd · glycolysis and Krebs cycle lectures
industrialpenicillinsimulation.com — the original IndPenSim site. (verify): it was unreachable in the 2026-09-12 check; prefer the UCL/Mendeley routes in R4 and record whichever one actually served the data, with its licence
In: LABLOOP-W02 Notebook
8/20
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15 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
ISLP
Saturday sandbox
ISLP ch. 2 and 3.1-3.3 — statlearning.com (free PDF) + the matching Stanford Statistical Learning with Python videos. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
9/20
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30 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
Nomikos & MacGregor (1995), "Multivariate SPC charts for monitoring batch processes"
Saturday sandbox
· after ISLP
Nomikos & MacGregor (1995), "Multivariate SPC charts for monitoring batch processes", Technometrics 37(1):41-59 — the founding paper of batch MSPC. Read abstract + figures
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
10/20
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30 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
Kourti & MacGregor (1995), "Process analysis, monitoring and diagnosis, using multivariate proje…
Saturday sandbox
· after Nomikos & MacGregor (1995), "Multivariate SPC charts for monitoring batch processes"
Kourti & MacGregor (1995), "Process analysis, monitoring and diagnosis, using multivariate projection methods", Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 28:3-21 (verify)
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
11/20
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15 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
Crash Course Statistics
Saturday sandbox
· after Kourti & MacGregor (1995), "Process analysis, monitoring and diagnosis, using multivariate proje…
Crash Course Statistics (YouTube), episodes on the normal distribution and control charts' ancestor, the z-score
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
12/20
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30 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani & Taylor, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applica…
Saturday sandbox
· after Crash Course Statistics
James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani & Taylor, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python — free PDF at statlearning.com — Ch. 2 (whole) and 3.1-3.3 only. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
13/20
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15 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
Stanford Online · Statistical Learning with Python
Saturday sandbox
· after James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani & Taylor, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applica…
Stanford Online · Statistical Learning with Python (Hastie, Tibshirani et al.) — Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rPP6braWoRt5UCXYZ71GZIQ · course page: online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearningp-statistical-learning-python. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
14/20
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30 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
Nomikos P. & MacGregor J.F., "Multivariate SPC Charts for Monitoring Batch Processes", Technomet…
Saturday sandbox
· after Stanford Online · Statistical Learning with Python
Nomikos P. & MacGregor J.F., "Multivariate SPC Charts for Monitoring Batch Processes", Technometrics 37(1):41-59, 1995. DOI 10.1080/00401706.1995.10485888 · author PDF mirror: three-mode.leidenuniv.nl/pdf/n/nomikosmacgregor1995tmet.pdf. The founding paper of batch MSPC — abstract and figures are enough. Cite it in week 08's report
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
15/20
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30 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
Kourti T. & MacGregor J.F., "Process analysis, monitoring and diagnosis, using multivariate proj…
Saturday sandbox
· after Nomikos P. & MacGregor J.F., "Multivariate SPC Charts for Monitoring Batch Processes", Technomet…
Kourti T. & MacGregor J.F., "Process analysis, monitoring and diagnosis, using multivariate projection methods", Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 28:3-21, 1995. (verify)
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
16/20
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30 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
salvadorgarciamunoz/pyphi
Saturday sandbox
· after Kourti T. & MacGregor J.F., "Process analysis, monitoring and diagnosis, using multivariate proj…
salvadorgarciamunoz/pyphi — a pharma practitioner's PCA/PLS with T² and SPE. Niche, but written by someone who does this for a living
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
17/20
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30 min?
W03
Saturday
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optional
Coursera Introduction to Statistics
Saturday sandbox
· after salvadorgarciamunoz/pyphi
Coursera Introduction to Statistics (Stanford, Walther), regression module — coursera.org/learn/stanford-statistics, free audit. Only if ISLP ch. 3 feels steep
In: LABLOOP-W03 Notebook
5/17
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30 min?
W04
Saturday
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optional
The Turing Way, chapter on "Version control" and "Research compendia"
Saturday sandbox
In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook
6/17
Read
30 min?
W04
Saturday
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optional
OpenStax Microbiology, ch. 8 "Microbial Metabolism"
Saturday sandbox
· after The Turing Way, chapter on "Version control" and "Research compendia"
OpenStax Microbiology, ch. 8 "Microbial Metabolism", sections 8.1-8.4 — start at 8.1 Energy, Matter, and Enzymes, chapter entry 8-introduction, recap 8-summary — 8.1 through 8.4; pay attention to aerobic vs anaerobic. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook
7/17
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30 min?
W04
Saturday
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optional
ISLP ch. 5 "Resampling Methods"
Saturday sandbox
· after OpenStax Microbiology, ch. 8 "Microbial Metabolism"
ISLP ch. 5 "Resampling Methods" — free PDF at statlearning.com — 5.1 cross-validation and 5.2 bootstrap; then the ch. 5 lab. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook
8/17
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30 min?
W04
Saturday
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optional
Sandve G. et al., "Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research", PLOS Comp. Biol. 9…
Saturday sandbox
· after ISLP ch. 5 "Resampling Methods"
Sandve G. et al., "Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research", PLOS Comp. Biol. 9(10):e1003285, 2013. DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003285 — All ten rules, they are one page each. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook
9/17
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15 min?
W04
Saturday
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StatQuest · "Bootstrapping Main Ideas!!!"
Saturday sandbox
· after Sandve G. et al., "Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research", PLOS Comp. Biol. 9…
StatQuest · "Bootstrapping Main Ideas!!!" — Channel: youtube.com/@statquest — search the exact title. (verify): no stable video ID confirmed on 2026-09-15. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook
10/17
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30 min?
W04
Saturday
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optional
The Turing Way — book.the-turing-way.org, chapters on "Version control"
Saturday sandbox
· after StatQuest · "Bootstrapping Main Ideas!!!"
The Turing Way — book.the-turing-way.org, chapters on "Version control" and "Research compendia". The grown-up version of what you shipped this week
In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook
11/17
Run
30 min?
W04
Saturday
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optional
carpentries-lab/good-enough-practices
Saturday sandbox
· after The Turing Way — book.the-turing-way.org, chapters on "Version control"
carpentries-lab/good-enough-practices — the hands-on lesson behind week 00's R3
In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook
12/17
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30 min?
W04
Saturday
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optional
Zenodo help
Saturday sandbox
· after carpentries-lab/good-enough-practices
Zenodo help — versioning and GitHub integration, if the DOI badge misbehaves
In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook
13/17
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30 min?
W04
Saturday
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optional
JOSS submission guidance
Saturday sandbox
· after Zenodo help
JOSS submission guidance — you submit in week 36, not now. Read it once so that today's release history is already the kind reviewers want
In: LABLOOP-W04 Notebook
6/16
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30 min?
W05
Saturday
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optional
Dagdelen et al. (2024), "Structured information extraction from scientific text with large langu…
Saturday sandbox
Dagdelen et al. (2024), "Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language models", Nature Communications 15:1418. The closest methodological cousin of FermLit (materials science). Read it this week; you will cite it
In: LABLOOP-W05 Notebook
7/16
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30 min?
W05
Saturday
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optional
Polak & Morgan
Saturday sandbox
· after Dagdelen et al. (2024), "Structured information extraction from scientific text with large langu…
Polak & Morgan (2024), "Extracting accurate materials data from research papers with conversational language models and prompt engineering", Nature Communications 15:1569
In: LABLOOP-W05 Notebook
8/16
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30 min?
W05
Saturday
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optional
Uri Alon (2009), "How to choose a good scientific problem"
Saturday sandbox
· after Polak & Morgan
Uri Alon (2009), "How to choose a good scientific problem" (re-read from week 0, now with FermLit in mind)
In: LABLOOP-W05 Notebook
9/16
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30 min?
W05
Saturday
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optional
Coursera Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners
Saturday sandbox
· after Uri Alon (2009), "How to choose a good scientific problem"
Coursera Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners (UCSD), week 1, if Rosalind hooks you
In: LABLOOP-W05 Notebook
10/16
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30 min?
W05
Saturday
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optional
MIT 7.00x
Saturday sandbox
· after Coursera Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners
MIT 7.00x (edX), molecular biology unit, for Lander's storytelling of the central dogma
In: LABLOOP-W05 Notebook
5/12
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30 min?
W06
Saturday
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optional
Artstein & Poesio (2008), "Inter-coder agreement for computational linguistics"
Saturday sandbox
Artstein & Poesio (2008), "Inter-coder agreement for computational linguistics", Computational Linguistics 34(4):555-596, sections 1-2. The bible of annotation agreement
In: LABLOOP-W06 Notebook
6/12
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30 min?
W06
Saturday
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optional
McHugh (2012), "Interrater reliability: the kappa statistic"
Saturday sandbox
· after Artstein & Poesio (2008), "Inter-coder agreement for computational linguistics"
McHugh (2012), "Interrater reliability: the kappa statistic", Biochemia Medica 22(3):276-282. Short, open, written for biomedical readers
In: LABLOOP-W06 Notebook
7/12
Watch
15 min
W06
Saturday
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optional
3Blue1Brown "Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs"
Saturday sandbox
· after McHugh (2012), "Interrater reliability: the kappa statistic"
3Blue1Brown "Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs" (YouTube, 15 min)
In: LABLOOP-W06 Notebook
8/12
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30 min?
W06
Saturday
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optional
STRENDA guidelines (Standards for Reporting Enzymology Data) — search "STRENDA guidelines"
Saturday sandbox
· after 3Blue1Brown "Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs"
STRENDA guidelines (Standards for Reporting Enzymology Data) — search "STRENDA guidelines" (verify URL). A real "minimum information" standard; it shows what a reporting checklist looks like and will inspire your completeness analysis
In: LABLOOP-W06 Notebook
5/12
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30 min?
W07
Saturday
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optional
Anthropic Claude Cookbooks (github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks) — "extracting structured JSON"
Saturday sandbox
Anthropic Claude Cookbooks (github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks) — "extracting structured JSON" and "tool use" recipes
In: LABLOOP-W07 Notebook
6/12
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30 min?
W07
Saturday
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optional
DSPy (Stanford NLP) documentation "Optimizers"
Saturday sandbox
· after Anthropic Claude Cookbooks (github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks) — "extracting structured JSON"
DSPy (Stanford NLP) documentation "Optimizers" — how to tune prompts against a metric instead of by feel
In: LABLOOP-W07 Notebook
8/12
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15 min?
W07
Saturday
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optional
Ninja Nerd "Enzyme kinetics" lecture
Saturday sandbox
· after Karpathy, "Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT"
Ninja Nerd "Enzyme kinetics" lecture (YouTube) for Michaelis-Menten in depth
In: LABLOOP-W07 Notebook
5/15
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30 min?
W08
Saturday
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optional
Kadlec, Gabrys & Strandt (2009), "Data-driven soft sensors in the process industry"
Saturday sandbox
Kadlec, Gabrys & Strandt (2009), "Data-driven soft sensors in the process industry", Computers & Chemical Engineering 33(4):795-814
In: LABLOOP-W08 Notebook
6/15
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15 min?
W08
Saturday
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optional
3Blue1Brown Neural Networks ch. 3-4 ("Backpropagation, intuitively"
Saturday sandbox
· after Kadlec, Gabrys & Strandt (2009), "Data-driven soft sensors in the process industry"
3Blue1Brown Neural Networks ch. 3-4 ("Backpropagation, intuitively" and "Backpropagation calculus")
In: LABLOOP-W08 Notebook
7/15
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30 min?
W08
Saturday
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optional
Stanford CS231n notes "Backpropagation, intuitions"
Saturday sandbox
· after 3Blue1Brown Neural Networks ch. 3-4 ("Backpropagation, intuitively"
Stanford CS231n notes "Backpropagation, intuitions" (cs231n.github.io/optimization-2) — a classic written explanation
In: LABLOOP-W08 Notebook
8/15
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15 min?
W08
Saturday
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optional
Simon Peyton Jones, "How to write a great research paper"
Saturday sandbox
· after Stanford CS231n notes "Backpropagation, intuitions"
Simon Peyton Jones, "How to write a great research paper" (YouTube) — watch now, not in week 18, because the report is a mini-paper
In: LABLOOP-W08 Notebook
9/15
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30 min?
W08
Saturday
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optional
Quarto guide for scientific manuscripts
Saturday sandbox
· after Simon Peyton Jones, "How to write a great research paper"
Quarto guide for scientific manuscripts (quarto.org/docs/manuscripts)
In: LABLOOP-W08 Notebook
3/10
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15 min?
W09
Saturday
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optional
MIT OCW 10.37 Chemical and Biological Reaction Engineering
Saturday sandbox
MIT OCW 10.37 Chemical and Biological Reaction Engineering (Spring 2007), lecture notes on bioreactors — ocw.mit.edu/courses/10-37-chemical-and-biological-reaction-engineering-spring-2007
In: LABLOOP-W09 Notebook
4/10
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30 min?
W09
Saturday
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optional
Coursera Industrial Biotechnology
Saturday sandbox
· after MIT OCW 10.37 Chemical and Biological Reaction Engineering
Coursera Industrial Biotechnology (University of Manchester), module on fermentation processes
In: LABLOOP-W09 Notebook
5/10
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15 min?
W09
Saturday
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optional
LearnChemE "mass balance" screencasts
Saturday sandbox
· after Coursera Industrial Biotechnology
LearnChemE "mass balance" screencasts (YouTube)
In: LABLOOP-W09 Notebook
4/11
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15 min?
W10
Saturday
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optional
ritvikmath "Gaussian Processes"
Saturday sandbox
ritvikmath "Gaussian Processes" (YouTube, whiteboard intuition)
In: LABLOOP-W10 Notebook
5/11
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15 min?
W10
Saturday
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optional
StatQuest "Confidence Intervals, Clearly Explained" and "The Standard Error"
Saturday sandbox
· after ritvikmath "Gaussian Processes"
In: LABLOOP-W10 Notebook
6/11
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30 min?
W10
Saturday
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optional
Krippendorff's alpha
Saturday sandbox
· after StatQuest "Confidence Intervals, Clearly Explained" and "The Standard Error"
Krippendorff's alpha (Wikipedia page is good) for when you have more than two annotators or missing ratings
In: LABLOOP-W10 Notebook
7/11
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30 min?
W10
Saturday
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optional
Modern Statistics for Modern Biology (Holmes & Huber) ch. 3 "High quality graphics in R"
Saturday sandbox
· after Krippendorff's alpha
Modern Statistics for Modern Biology (Holmes & Huber) ch. 3 "High quality graphics in R" — read for the design principles, ignore the R
In: LABLOOP-W10 Notebook
5/12
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30 min?
W11
Saturday
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optional
Shields et al. (2021), "Bayesian reaction optimization as a tool for chemical synthesis"
Saturday sandbox
Shields et al. (2021), "Bayesian reaction optimization as a tool for chemical synthesis", Nature 590:89-96 — BO beating expert chemists, the self-driving-lab argument
In: LABLOOP-W11 Notebook
6/12
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30 min?
W11
Saturday
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optional
Coursera Research Data Management and Sharing
Saturday sandbox
· after Shields et al. (2021), "Bayesian reaction optimization as a tool for chemical synthesis"
Coursera Research Data Management and Sharing (UNC/Edinburgh), module on metadata
In: LABLOOP-W11 Notebook
7/12
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30 min?
W11
Saturday
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optional
NCBI Taxonomy and E-utilities documentation
Saturday sandbox
· after Coursera Research Data Management and Sharing
NCBI Taxonomy and E-utilities documentation (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501) for the name-to-ID mapping
In: LABLOOP-W11 Notebook
8/12
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15 min?
W11
Saturday
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optional
Brunton "Bayesian optimization" lecture
Saturday sandbox
· after NCBI Taxonomy and E-utilities documentation
Brunton "Bayesian optimization" lecture (search in his channel; verify)
In: LABLOOP-W11 Notebook
5/12
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30 min?
W12
Saturday
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optional
Narayanan et al. (2020), "Bioprocessing in the digital age: the role of process models"
Saturday sandbox
Narayanan et al. (2020), "Bioprocessing in the digital age: the role of process models", Biotechnology Journal 15(1):e1900172
In: LABLOOP-W12 Notebook
6/12
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30 min?
W12
Saturday
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optional
Sansana et al. (2021), "Recent trends on hybrid modeling for Industry 4.0"
Saturday sandbox
· after Narayanan et al. (2020), "Bioprocessing in the digital age: the role of process models"
Sansana et al. (2021), "Recent trends on hybrid modeling for Industry 4.0", Computers & Chemical Engineering 151:107365
In: LABLOOP-W12 Notebook
7/12
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30 min?
W12
Saturday
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optional
arXiv endorsement page
Saturday sandbox
· after Sansana et al. (2021), "Recent trends on hybrid modeling for Industry 4.0"
arXiv endorsement page — info.arxiv.org/help/endorsement.html (read once, carefully)
In: LABLOOP-W12 Notebook
8/12
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15 min?
W12
Saturday
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optional
Steve Brunton "Physics Informed Machine Learning" series
Saturday sandbox
· after arXiv endorsement page
Steve Brunton "Physics Informed Machine Learning" series (YouTube), first 2 videos
In: LABLOOP-W12 Notebook
6/13
Watch
15 min?
W13
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Steve Brunton "Neural ODEs"
Saturday sandbox
Steve Brunton "Neural ODEs" (YouTube)
In: LABLOOP-W13 Notebook
7/13
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30 min?
W13
Saturday
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optional
Coursera Writing in the Sciences (Stanford, Kristin Sainani), module 1 "Principles of effective…
Saturday sandbox
· after Steve Brunton "Neural ODEs"
Coursera Writing in the Sciences (Stanford, Kristin Sainani), module 1 "Principles of effective writing" — preview for week 14
In: LABLOOP-W13 Notebook
8/13
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30 min?
W13
Saturday
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optional
Karniadakis et al. (2021), "Physics-informed machine learning"
Saturday sandbox
· after Coursera Writing in the Sciences (Stanford, Kristin Sainani), module 1 "Principles of effective…
Karniadakis et al. (2021), "Physics-informed machine learning", Nature Reviews Physics 3:422-440 (figures 1-2)
In: LABLOOP-W13 Notebook
9/13
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15 min?
W13
Saturday
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optional
Stanford CS197 (cs197.stanford.edu), lecture on "vertical paper structure"
Saturday sandbox
· after Karniadakis et al. (2021), "Physics-informed machine learning"
Stanford CS197 (cs197.stanford.edu), lecture on "vertical paper structure" (verify lecture title)
In: LABLOOP-W13 Notebook
4/12
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30 min?
W14
Saturday
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optional
Gopen & Swan (1990), "The Science of Scientific Writing"
Saturday sandbox
Gopen & Swan (1990), "The Science of Scientific Writing", American Scientist 78:550-558. The best 9 pages ever written on why readers get lost
In: LABLOOP-W14 Notebook
5/12
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30 min?
W14
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Whitesides (2004), "Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper"
Saturday sandbox
· after Gopen & Swan (1990), "The Science of Scientific Writing"
Whitesides (2004), "Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper", Advanced Materials 16(15):1375-1377. Outline-first writing from a legendary chemist
In: LABLOOP-W14 Notebook
6/12
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30 min?
W14
Saturday
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optional
Benjamini & Hochberg (1995), "Controlling the false discovery rate"
Saturday sandbox
· after Whitesides (2004), "Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper"
Benjamini & Hochberg (1995), "Controlling the false discovery rate", JRSS B 57(1):289-300 (abstract + procedure)
In: LABLOOP-W14 Notebook
7/12
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30 min?
W14
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Scientific Data "Data Descriptor" article guidelines
Saturday sandbox
· after Benjamini & Hochberg (1995), "Controlling the false discovery rate"
Scientific Data "Data Descriptor" article guidelines (nature.com/sdata) — preview of the week 36 venue
In: LABLOOP-W14 Notebook
3/10
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30 min?
W15
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Coursera Writing in the Sciences, module on "The format of a scientific manuscript" and "Peer re…
Saturday sandbox
Coursera Writing in the Sciences, module on "The format of a scientific manuscript" and "Peer review"
In: LABLOOP-W15 Notebook
4/10
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30 min?
W15
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Bourne (2005), "Ten simple rules for getting published"
Saturday sandbox
· after Coursera Writing in the Sciences, module on "The format of a scientific manuscript" and "Peer re…
Bourne (2005), "Ten simple rules for getting published", PLoS Computational Biology 1(5):e57
In: LABLOOP-W15 Notebook
5/10
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30 min?
W15
Saturday
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optional
ASAPbio preprint FAQ
Saturday sandbox
· after Bourne (2005), "Ten simple rules for getting published"
ASAPbio preprint FAQ (asapbio.org) — what preprints mean for credit and journals
In: LABLOOP-W15 Notebook
6/10
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15 min?
W15
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
StatQuest "Statistical Power, Clearly Explained"
Saturday sandbox
· after ASAPbio preprint FAQ
StatQuest "Statistical Power, Clearly Explained" — reviewers may ask whether 50 gold papers is enough
In: LABLOOP-W15 Notebook
5/14
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30 min?
W16
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Rives et al. (2021), "Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learnin…
Saturday sandbox
Rives et al. (2021), "Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences", PNAS 118(15) — the ESM-1b paper, for the "why it works" story
In: LABLOOP-W16 Notebook
6/14
Watch
8 min
W16
Saturday
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optional
DeepMind, "AlphaFold: The making of a scientific breakthrough"
Saturday sandbox
· after Rives et al. (2021), "Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learnin…
DeepMind, "AlphaFold: The making of a scientific breakthrough" (YouTube, 8 min) — the emotional context of protein AI
In: LABLOOP-W16 Notebook
7/14
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15 min?
W16
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 lectures
Saturday sandbox
· after DeepMind, "AlphaFold: The making of a scientific breakthrough"
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 lectures (Baker, Hassabis, Jumper) — nobelprize.org
In: LABLOOP-W16 Notebook
8/14
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15 min?
W16
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Anastasios Angelopoulos' conformal prediction tutorial videos
Saturday sandbox
· after Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 lectures
Anastasios Angelopoulos' conformal prediction tutorial videos (YouTube; verify)
In: LABLOOP-W16 Notebook
9/14
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15 min?
W16
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Valence Labs (YouTube), search "ESM" or "protein language models"
Saturday sandbox
· after Anastasios Angelopoulos' conformal prediction tutorial videos
Valence Labs (YouTube), search "ESM" or "protein language models" in the M2D2 reading group
In: LABLOOP-W16 Notebook
4/13
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15 min?
W17
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Yang, Wu & Arnold (2019), "Machine-learning-guided directed evolution for protein engineering"
Saturday sandbox
Yang, Wu & Arnold (2019), "Machine-learning-guided directed evolution for protein engineering", Nature Methods 16:687-694. The classic review; read it before week 21
In: LABLOOP-W17 Notebook
5/13
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15 min?
W17
Saturday
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optional
Frances Arnold, Nobel Lecture 2018 "Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life"
Saturday sandbox
· after Yang, Wu & Arnold (2019), "Machine-learning-guided directed evolution for protein engineering"
Frances Arnold, Nobel Lecture 2018 "Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life" (nobelprize.org)
In: LABLOOP-W17 Notebook
6/13
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30 min?
W17
Saturday
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optional
Notin et al. (2023), "ProteinGym: large-scale benchmarks for protein fitness prediction and desi…
Saturday sandbox
· after Frances Arnold, Nobel Lecture 2018 "Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life"
Notin et al. (2023), "ProteinGym: large-scale benchmarks for protein fitness prediction and design", NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks
In: LABLOOP-W17 Notebook
7/13
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30 min?
W17
Saturday
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optional
Andrew White, Deep Learning for Molecules and Materials — dmol.pub, chapter on "Deep learning on…
Saturday sandbox
· after Notin et al. (2023), "ProteinGym: large-scale benchmarks for protein fitness prediction and desi…
Andrew White, Deep Learning for Molecules and Materials — dmol.pub, chapter on "Deep learning on sequences" (with Colab buttons)
In: LABLOOP-W17 Notebook
3/10
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30 min?
W18
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Coursera Writing in the Sciences (Stanford), module "Writing the results and discussion"
Saturday sandbox
In: LABLOOP-W18 Notebook
4/10
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30 min?
W18
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Kapoor & Narayanan
Saturday sandbox
· after Coursera Writing in the Sciences (Stanford), module "Writing the results and discussion"
Kapoor & Narayanan (2023) leakage paper (carry over) — use its checklist on Paper 2's Methods
In: LABLOOP-W18 Notebook
5/10
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30 min?
W18
Saturday
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optional
Rothschild & Mancinelli (2001), "Life in extreme environments"
Saturday sandbox
· after Kapoor & Narayanan
Rothschild & Mancinelli (2001), "Life in extreme environments", Nature 409:1092-1101 — the classic review of extremophiles
In: LABLOOP-W18 Notebook
6/10
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15 min?
W18
Saturday
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optional
Stanford CS197, lecture on "writing the paper"
Saturday sandbox
· after Rothschild & Mancinelli (2001), "Life in extreme environments"
Stanford CS197, lecture on "writing the paper" (verify title)
In: LABLOOP-W18 Notebook
3/10
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30 min?
W19
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Single-cell best practices
Saturday sandbox
Single-cell best practices (Heumos et al., theislab) — sc-best-practices.org, introduction and quality-control chapters
In: LABLOOP-W19 Notebook
4/10
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15 min?
W19
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
MIT 6.874 single-cell lecture
Saturday sandbox
· after Single-cell best practices
MIT 6.874 single-cell lecture (Kellis, YouTube)
In: LABLOOP-W19 Notebook
5/10
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30 min?
W19
Saturday
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optional
Cumming (2014), "The new statistics: why and how"
Saturday sandbox
· after MIT 6.874 single-cell lecture
Cumming (2014), "The new statistics: why and how", Psychological Science 25(1):7-29 — the case for estimation and intervals over p-values
In: LABLOOP-W19 Notebook
6/10
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30 min?
W19
Saturday
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optional
Chip Huyen, ML Interviews Book
Saturday sandbox
· after Cumming (2014), "The new statistics: why and how"
Chip Huyen, ML Interviews Book — huyenchip.com/ml-interviews-book (free) — chapters on the interview process, for the applications you send this week
In: LABLOOP-W19 Notebook
4/10
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30 min?
W20
Saturday
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optional
Richard Hamming, You and Your Research
Saturday sandbox
Richard Hamming, You and Your Research (re-read from week 0; you will hear it differently now)
In: LABLOOP-W20 Notebook
5/10
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15 min?
W20
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Stanford CS197 lecture on research talks and posters
Saturday sandbox
· after Richard Hamming, You and Your Research
Stanford CS197 lecture on research talks and posters (verify title)
In: LABLOOP-W20 Notebook
6/10
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30 min?
W20
Saturday
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optional
Coursera Introduction to Public Speaking
Saturday sandbox
· after Stanford CS197 lecture on research talks and posters
Coursera Introduction to Public Speaking (Univ. of Washington), week 1
In: LABLOOP-W20 Notebook
3/13
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30 min?
W21
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Pudžiuvelytė et al.
Saturday sandbox
Pudžiuvelytė et al. (2024), "TemStaPro: protein thermostability prediction using sequence representations from protein language models", Bioinformatics 40(4):btae157 — the closest published tool to what you are building
In: LABLOOP-W21 Notebook
4/13
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30 min?
W21
Saturday
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optional
Yang, Wu & Arnold
Saturday sandbox
· after Pudžiuvelytė et al.
Yang, Wu & Arnold (2019) review (carry over)
In: LABLOOP-W21 Notebook
5/13
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15 min?
W21
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Valence Labs
Saturday sandbox
· after Yang, Wu & Arnold
Valence Labs (YouTube) reading-group talks on protein language models
In: LABLOOP-W21 Notebook
6/13
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15 min?
W21
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Frances Arnold on iBiology
Saturday sandbox
· after Valence Labs
Frances Arnold on iBiology (directed evolution talks; verify)
In: LABLOOP-W21 Notebook
2/10
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15 min?
W22
Saturday
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optional
Cunningham, Causal Inference: The Mixtape
Saturday sandbox
Cunningham, Causal Inference: The Mixtape — mixtape.scunning.com, ch. 3 (directed acyclic graphs)
In: LABLOOP-W22 Notebook
3/10
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30 min?
W22
Saturday
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optional
Huntington-Klein, The Effect
Saturday sandbox
· after Cunningham, Causal Inference: The Mixtape
Huntington-Klein, The Effect — theeffectbook.net, ch. 6-7 (causal diagrams), friendlier tone
In: LABLOOP-W22 Notebook
4/10
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15 min?
W22
Saturday
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optional
Coursera A Crash Course in Causality
Saturday sandbox
· after Huntington-Klein, The Effect
Coursera A Crash Course in Causality (Penn), week 1
In: LABLOOP-W22 Notebook
5/10
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30 min?
W22
Saturday
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optional
Steinegger & Söding (2017), "MMseqs2 enables sensitive protein sequence searching for the analys…
Saturday sandbox
· after Coursera A Crash Course in Causality
Steinegger & Söding (2017), "MMseqs2 enables sensitive protein sequence searching for the analysis of massive data sets", Nature Biotechnology 35:1026-1028
In: LABLOOP-W22 Notebook
2/9
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15 min?
W23
Saturday
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optional
UniProt REST API documentation
Saturday sandbox
UniProt REST API documentation (rest.uniprot.org) and the BRENDA enzyme database (brenda-enzymes.org) for reported temperature optima
In: LABLOOP-W23 Notebook
3/9
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15 min?
W23
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
iBiology talks on extremophiles and enzymes
Saturday sandbox
· after UniProt REST API documentation
iBiology talks on extremophiles and enzymes (search; verify)
In: LABLOOP-W23 Notebook
4/9
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15 min?
W23
Saturday
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optional
Crash Course Biology #35 "Old & Odd"
Saturday sandbox
· after iBiology talks on extremophiles and enzymes
Crash Course Biology #35 "Old & Odd" (carry over)
In: LABLOOP-W23 Notebook
2/9
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30 min?
W24
Saturday
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optional
McNutt et al.
Saturday sandbox
McNutt et al. (2018), "Transparency in authors' contributions and responsibilities to promote integrity in scientific publication", PNAS 115(11):2557-2560 (CRediT roles)
In: LABLOOP-W24 Notebook
3/9
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30 min?
W24
Saturday
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optional
CRediT taxonomy
Saturday sandbox
· after McNutt et al.
CRediT taxonomy (credit.niso.org) — the standard list of contributor roles; use it in the authorship paragraph
In: LABLOOP-W24 Notebook
4/9
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30 min?
W24
Saturday
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optional
Center for Open Science / OSF preregistration templates
Saturday sandbox
· after CRediT taxonomy
Center for Open Science / OSF preregistration templates (osf.io)
In: LABLOOP-W24 Notebook
5/9
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30 min?
W24
Saturday
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optional
Coursera Research Data Management and Sharing, module on data sharing agreements
Saturday sandbox
· after Center for Open Science / OSF preregistration templates
In: LABLOOP-W24 Notebook
3/12
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30 min?
W25
Saturday
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optional
Michael Clark, Mixed Models with R
Saturday sandbox
Michael Clark, Mixed Models with R — m-clark.github.io/mixed-models-with-R (concepts transfer to Python)
In: LABLOOP-W25 Notebook
4/12
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30 min?
W25
Saturday
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optional
Bambi documentation
Saturday sandbox
· after Michael Clark, Mixed Models with R
Bambi documentation (bambinos.github.io/bambi), Bayesian mixed models in one formula
In: LABLOOP-W25 Notebook
5/12
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15 min?
W25
Saturday
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optional
StatQuest on ANOVA and "Design matrices"
Saturday sandbox
· after Bambi documentation
StatQuest on ANOVA and "Design matrices" (search in channel)
In: LABLOOP-W25 Notebook
6/12
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30 min?
W25
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Coursera Practical Time Series Analysis
Saturday sandbox
· after StatQuest on ANOVA and "Design matrices"
Coursera Practical Time Series Analysis — only if a client's trials are longitudinal
In: LABLOOP-W25 Notebook
4/11
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30 min?
W26
Saturday
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optional
Sprouffske & Wagner
Saturday sandbox
Sprouffske & Wagner (2016), "Growthcurver: an R package for obtaining interpretable metrics from microbial growth curves", BMC Bioinformatics 17:172
In: LABLOOP-W26 Notebook
5/11
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15 min?
W26
Saturday
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optional
Midani, Collins & Britton (2021), "AMiGA: software for automated analysis of microbial growth as…
Saturday sandbox
· after Sprouffske & Wagner
Midani, Collins & Britton (2021), "AMiGA: software for automated analysis of microbial growth assays", mSystems 6:e00508-21 — an open-source Python tool that fits growth curves without assuming their shape (pip install amiga)
In: LABLOOP-W26 Notebook
6/11
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30 min?
W26
Saturday
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optional
NCATS Assay Guidance Manual
Saturday sandbox
· after Midani, Collins & Britton (2021), "AMiGA: software for automated analysis of microbial growth as…
NCATS Assay Guidance Manual (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53196), chapters on assay validation and HTS statistics — the industry reference, free
In: LABLOOP-W26 Notebook
7/11
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15 min?
W26
Saturday
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optional
Khan Academy / LabXchange on spectrophotometry and optical density
Saturday sandbox
· after NCATS Assay Guidance Manual
In: LABLOOP-W26 Notebook
3/10
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15 min?
W27
Saturday
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optional
David Maister, Charles Green & Robert Galford, The Trusted Advisor
Saturday sandbox
David Maister, Charles Green & Robert Galford, The Trusted Advisor (book, paid) — the trust equation
In: LABLOOP-W27 Notebook
4/10
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30 min?
W27
Saturday
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optional
Alan Weiss, Value-Based Fees
Saturday sandbox
· after David Maister, Charles Green & Robert Galford, The Trusted Advisor
Alan Weiss, Value-Based Fees (book, paid) — why fixed price beats hourly; matches v4's rule
In: LABLOOP-W27 Notebook
5/10
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15 min?
W27
Saturday
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optional
Stanford eCorner (ecorner.stanford.edu) — search talks on "customer discovery"
Saturday sandbox
· after Alan Weiss, Value-Based Fees
Stanford eCorner (ecorner.stanford.edu) — search talks on "customer discovery" and "B2B sales for technical founders"
In: LABLOOP-W27 Notebook
6/10
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30 min?
W27
Saturday
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optional
Bruce Booth's Life Sci VC blog (lifescivc.com) — how biotech investors think about runway and mi…
Saturday sandbox
· after Stanford eCorner (ecorner.stanford.edu) — search talks on "customer discovery"
Bruce Booth's Life Sci VC blog (lifescivc.com) — how biotech investors think about runway and milestones; vocabulary for the "months of runway" pitch
In: LABLOOP-W27 Notebook
1/6
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15 min?
W28
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Getting to Yes
Saturday sandbox
Getting to Yes (Fisher, Ury & Patton; book, paid) — principled negotiation, if price is contested
In: LABLOOP-W28 Notebook
2/6
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15 min?
W28
Saturday
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optional
Stanford eCorner talks on first customers
Saturday sandbox
· after Getting to Yes
Stanford eCorner talks on first customers (search)
In: LABLOOP-W28 Notebook
1/7
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30 min?
W29
Saturday
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optional
Wil van der Aalst, Process Mining: Data Science in Action
Saturday sandbox
Wil van der Aalst, Process Mining: Data Science in Action (book, paid)
In: LABLOOP-W29 Notebook
2/7
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30 min?
W29
Saturday
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optional
NIST e-Handbook
Saturday sandbox
· after Wil van der Aalst, Process Mining: Data Science in Action
NIST e-Handbook ch. 6.1 (process monitoring intro) as a vocabulary refresher
In: LABLOOP-W29 Notebook
4/10
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30 min?
W30
Saturday
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optional
Vaux, Fidler & Cumming (2012), "Replicates and repeats—what is the difference and is it signific…
Saturday sandbox
Vaux, Fidler & Cumming (2012), "Replicates and repeats—what is the difference and is it significant?", EMBO Reports 13:291-296
In: LABLOOP-W30 Notebook
5/10
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30 min?
W30
Saturday
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optional
Coursera Introduction to Statistics
Saturday sandbox
· after Vaux, Fidler & Cumming (2012), "Replicates and repeats—what is the difference and is it signific…
Coursera Introduction to Statistics (Stanford), module on small-sample inference
In: LABLOOP-W30 Notebook
3/8
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30 min?
W31
Saturday
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optional
Target journal author guidelines chosen with the partner
Saturday sandbox
Target journal author guidelines chosen with the partner (e.g., a protein engineering or applied microbiology journal; verify fit and open-access policy)
In: LABLOOP-W31 Notebook
4/8
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15 min?
W31
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Stanford CS197 lecture on co-authoring and feedback
Saturday sandbox
· after Target journal author guidelines chosen with the partner
Stanford CS197 lecture on co-authoring and feedback (verify)
In: LABLOOP-W31 Notebook
5/8
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30 min?
W31
Saturday
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optional
Whitesides 2004
Saturday sandbox
· after Stanford CS197 lecture on co-authoring and feedback
Whitesides 2004 (carry over)
In: LABLOOP-W31 Notebook
1/5
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30 min?
W32
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Andrew Ng, How to Build Your Career in AI
Saturday sandbox
Andrew Ng, How to Build Your Career in AI (free eBook from DeepLearning.AI; verify availability) — chapters on job search and portfolio
In: LABLOOP-W32 Notebook
2/5
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30 min?
W32
Saturday
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optional
Life Sci VC
Saturday sandbox
· after Andrew Ng, How to Build Your Career in AI
Life Sci VC (Bruce Booth) posts on how biotech boards evaluate consultants and fractional executives (search)
In: LABLOOP-W32 Notebook
4/13
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30 min?
W33
Saturday
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optional
FDA, "Data Integrity and Compliance With Drug CGMP: Questions and Answers"
Saturday sandbox
FDA, "Data Integrity and Compliance With Drug CGMP: Questions and Answers" (guidance, December 2018)
In: LABLOOP-W33 Notebook
5/13
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30 min?
W33
Saturday
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optional
FDA "Computer Software Assurance for Production and Quality System Software" guidance
Saturday sandbox
· after FDA, "Data Integrity and Compliance With Drug CGMP: Questions and Answers"
FDA "Computer Software Assurance for Production and Quality System Software" guidance (verify final status and date)
In: LABLOOP-W33 Notebook
6/13
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30 min?
W33
Saturday
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optional
ICH E6(R3) Good Clinical Practice, data governance sections
Saturday sandbox
· after FDA "Computer Software Assurance for Production and Quality System Software" guidance
ICH E6(R3) Good Clinical Practice, data governance sections (only if a clinical client appears)
In: LABLOOP-W33 Notebook
7/13
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30 min?
W33
Saturday
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optional
eLabFTW documentation
Saturday sandbox
· after ICH E6(R3) Good Clinical Practice, data governance sections
eLabFTW documentation — doc.elabftw.net (installation and API)
In: LABLOOP-W33 Notebook
8/13
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30 min?
W33
Saturday
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optional
Coursera Research Data Management and Sharing
Saturday sandbox
· after eLabFTW documentation
Coursera Research Data Management and Sharing (UNC/Edinburgh), modules on data storage and preservation
In: LABLOOP-W33 Notebook
4/12
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30 min?
W34
Saturday
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optional
Anthropic, "Introducing Contextual Retrieval"
Saturday sandbox
Anthropic, "Introducing Contextual Retrieval" (engineering blog, 2024)
In: LABLOOP-W34 Notebook
5/12
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30 min?
W34
Saturday
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optional
Thakur et al. (2021), "BEIR: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information R…
Saturday sandbox
· after Anthropic, "Introducing Contextual Retrieval"
Thakur et al. (2021), "BEIR: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models", NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks
In: LABLOOP-W34 Notebook
6/12
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30 min?
W34
Saturday
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optional
Faysse et al. (2024), "ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models"
Saturday sandbox
· after Thakur et al. (2021), "BEIR: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information R…
Faysse et al. (2024), "ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models", arXiv:2407.01449 — retrieval directly on page images
In: LABLOOP-W34 Notebook
7/12
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30 min?
W34
Saturday
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optional
Zheng et al. 2023 LLM-as-a-judge
Saturday sandbox
· after Faysse et al. (2024), "ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models"
Zheng et al. 2023 LLM-as-a-judge (carry over)
In: LABLOOP-W34 Notebook
4/10
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30 min?
W35
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
NIST Privacy Framework overview
Saturday sandbox
NIST Privacy Framework overview (nist.gov)
In: LABLOOP-W35 Notebook
5/10
Run
30 min?
W35
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Stanford HAI AI Index report, chapter on responsible AI
Saturday sandbox
· after NIST Privacy Framework overview
Stanford HAI AI Index report, chapter on responsible AI (for context in M5)
In: LABLOOP-W35 Notebook
6/10
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30 min?
W35
Saturday
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optional
v4 Part 5.4
Saturday sandbox
· after Stanford HAI AI Index report, chapter on responsible AI
v4 Part 5.4 (phase-2 backlog) — re-read to decide nothing yet
In: LABLOOP-W35 Notebook
3/8
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30 min?
W36
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Coursera Writing in the Sciences module on "The publication process" and cover letters
Saturday sandbox
In: LABLOOP-W36 Notebook
4/8
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30 min?
W36
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Smith et al. (2018), "Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review"
Saturday sandbox
· after Coursera Writing in the Sciences module on "The publication process" and cover letters
Smith et al. (2018), "Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review", PeerJ Computer Science 4:e147
In: LABLOOP-W36 Notebook
5/8
Read
30 min?
W36
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
COPE
Saturday sandbox
· after Smith et al. (2018), "Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review"
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidance on preprints and duplicate publication (publicationethics.org)
In: LABLOOP-W36 Notebook
1/7
Read
30 min?
W37
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Chip Huyen, Designing Machine Learning Systems
Saturday sandbox
Chip Huyen, Designing Machine Learning Systems (book, paid) — chapters on data and deployment for the system-design interview
In: LABLOOP-W37 Notebook
2/7
Watch
15 min?
W37
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
The Trusted Advisor
Saturday sandbox
· after Chip Huyen, Designing Machine Learning Systems
The Trusted Advisor (carry over) for running a pilot relationship
In: LABLOOP-W37 Notebook
3/7
Read
30 min?
W37
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Company engineering/science blogs of the targets
Saturday sandbox
· after The Trusted Advisor
Company engineering/science blogs of the targets (DataHow, TetraScience, Benchling, Novasign; verify)
In: LABLOOP-W37 Notebook
1/6
Watch
15 min?
W38
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Nancy Duarte, "The secret structure of great talks"
Saturday sandbox
Nancy Duarte, "The secret structure of great talks" (TEDx, YouTube)
In: LABLOOP-W38 Notebook
2/6
Read
30 min?
W38
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Coursera Introduction to Public Speaking
Saturday sandbox
· after Nancy Duarte, "The secret structure of great talks"
Coursera Introduction to Public Speaking (University of Washington), weeks 2-3
In: LABLOOP-W38 Notebook
1/6
Read
30 min?
W39
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
a16z Bio + Health podcast
Saturday sandbox
a16z Bio + Health podcast (search an episode on biotech operations or AI in R&D)
In: LABLOOP-W39 Notebook
2/6
Read
30 min?
W39
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Nature Biotechnology "Bioentrepreneur" section articles on working with investors
Saturday sandbox
· after a16z Bio + Health podcast
In: LABLOOP-W39 Notebook
1/6
Watch
15 min?
W40
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Uri Alon's talk and essay on "the cloud" in research
Saturday sandbox
Uri Alon's talk and essay on "the cloud" in research (iBiology; verify)
In: LABLOOP-W40 Notebook
2/6
Read
30 min?
W40
Saturday
Sandbox
optional
Stanford Designing Your Life resources
Saturday sandbox
· after Uri Alon's talk and essay on "the cloud" in research
Stanford Designing Your Life resources (designingyour.life) — odyssey plan worksheets
In: LABLOOP-W40 Notebook