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4/15 Run 30 min? W00 Saturday Sandbox optional

Good enough practices in scientific computing, Wilson et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2017. T…

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Good enough practices in scientific computing, Wilson et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2017. The repo habits you are setting up today, justified

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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

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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

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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

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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

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7/18 Read 30 min? W01 Saturday Sandbox 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

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8/18 Read 30 min? W01 Saturday Sandbox 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

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9/18 Watch 15 min? W01 Saturday Sandbox 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

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10/18 Watch 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

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11/18 Watch 15 min? W01 Saturday Sandbox 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

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12/18 Watch 15 min? W01 Saturday Sandbox 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

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13/18 Watch 15 min? W01 Saturday Sandbox 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

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14/18 Watch 15 min? W01 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/15 Read 30 min? W02 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/15 Watch 15 min? W02 Saturday Sandbox 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

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8/15 Watch 15 min? W02 Saturday Sandbox 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

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9/15 Run 30 min? W02 Saturday Sandbox 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

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10/15 Watch 15 min? W02 Saturday Sandbox 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

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11/15 Read 30 min? W02 Saturday Sandbox 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

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8/20 Watch 15 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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

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9/20 Read 30 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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

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10/20 Read 30 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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11/20 Watch 15 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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

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12/20 Read 30 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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

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13/20 Watch 15 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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

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14/20 Run 30 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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

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15/20 Read 30 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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16/20 Run 30 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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

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17/20 Read 30 min? W03 Saturday Sandbox 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

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5/17 Read 30 min? W04 Saturday Sandbox optional

The Turing Way, chapter on "Version control" and "Research compendia"

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6/17 Read 30 min? W04 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/17 Read 30 min? W04 Saturday Sandbox 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

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8/17 Read 30 min? W04 Saturday Sandbox 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

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9/17 Watch 15 min? W04 Saturday Sandbox optional

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

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10/17 Read 30 min? W04 Saturday Sandbox 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

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11/17 Run 30 min? W04 Saturday Sandbox 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

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12/17 Run 30 min? W04 Saturday Sandbox optional

Zenodo help

Saturday sandbox · after carpentries-lab/good-enough-practices

Zenodo help — versioning and GitHub integration, if the DOI badge misbehaves

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13/17 Read 30 min? W04 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/16 Read 30 min? W05 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/16 Read 30 min? W05 Saturday Sandbox 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

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8/16 Read 30 min? W05 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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9/16 Read 30 min? W05 Saturday Sandbox 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

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10/16 Read 30 min? W05 Saturday Sandbox 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

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5/12 Read 30 min? W06 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/12 Read 30 min? W06 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/12 Watch 15 min W06 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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8/12 Run 30 min? W06 Saturday Sandbox 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

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5/12 Run 30 min? W07 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/12 Read 30 min? W07 Saturday Sandbox 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

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8/12 Watch 15 min? W07 Saturday Sandbox 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

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5/15 Read 30 min? W08 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/15 Watch 15 min? W08 Saturday Sandbox 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")

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7/15 Run 30 min? W08 Saturday Sandbox 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

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8/15 Watch 15 min? W08 Saturday Sandbox 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

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9/15 Read 30 min? W08 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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3/10 Watch 15 min? W09 Saturday Sandbox 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

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4/10 Read 30 min? W09 Saturday Sandbox 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

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5/10 Watch 15 min? W09 Saturday Sandbox optional

LearnChemE "mass balance" screencasts

Saturday sandbox · after Coursera Industrial Biotechnology

LearnChemE "mass balance" screencasts (YouTube)

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6/10 Watch 60 min W09 Saturday Sandbox optional

Karpathy "Intro to Large Language Models"

Saturday sandbox · after LearnChemE "mass balance" screencasts

Karpathy "Intro to Large Language Models" (YouTube, 1 h) for a bird's-eye view

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4/11 Watch 15 min? W10 Saturday Sandbox optional

ritvikmath "Gaussian Processes"

Saturday sandbox

ritvikmath "Gaussian Processes" (YouTube, whiteboard intuition)

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5/11 Watch 15 min? W10 Saturday Sandbox optional

StatQuest "Confidence Intervals, Clearly Explained" and "The Standard Error"

Saturday sandbox · after ritvikmath "Gaussian Processes"

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6/11 Read 30 min? W10 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/11 Read 30 min? W10 Saturday Sandbox 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

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5/12 Read 30 min? W11 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/12 Read 30 min? W11 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/12 Read 30 min? W11 Saturday Sandbox 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

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8/12 Watch 15 min? W11 Saturday Sandbox optional

Brunton "Bayesian optimization" lecture

Saturday sandbox · after NCBI Taxonomy and E-utilities documentation

Brunton "Bayesian optimization" lecture (search in his channel; verify)

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5/12 Read 30 min? W12 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/12 Read 30 min? W12 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/12 Read 30 min? W12 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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8/12 Watch 15 min? W12 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/13 Watch 15 min? W13 Saturday Sandbox optional

Steve Brunton "Neural ODEs"

Saturday sandbox

Steve Brunton "Neural ODEs" (YouTube)

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7/13 Read 30 min? W13 Saturday Sandbox 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

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8/13 Read 30 min? W13 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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9/13 Watch 15 min? W13 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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4/12 Read 30 min? W14 Saturday Sandbox 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

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5/12 Read 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

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6/12 Read 30 min? W14 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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7/12 Read 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

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3/10 Read 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"

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4/10 Read 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

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5/10 Read 30 min? W15 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/10 Watch 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

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5/14 Read 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

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6/14 Watch 8 min W16 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/14 Watch 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

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8/14 Watch 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)

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9/14 Watch 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

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4/13 Watch 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

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5/13 Watch 15 min? W17 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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6/13 Read 30 min? W17 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/13 Run 30 min? W17 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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3/10 Read 30 min? W18 Saturday Sandbox optional

Coursera Writing in the Sciences (Stanford), module "Writing the results and discussion"

Saturday sandbox

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4/10 Read 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

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5/10 Read 30 min? W18 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/10 Watch 15 min? W18 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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3/10 Read 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

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4/10 Watch 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)

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5/10 Read 30 min? W19 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/10 Read 30 min? W19 Saturday Sandbox 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

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4/10 Read 30 min? W20 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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5/10 Watch 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)

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6/10 Read 30 min? W20 Saturday Sandbox 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

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3/13 Read 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

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4/13 Read 30 min? W21 Saturday Sandbox optional

Yang, Wu & Arnold

Saturday sandbox · after Pudžiuvelytė et al.

Yang, Wu & Arnold (2019) review (carry over)

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5/13 Watch 15 min? W21 Saturday Sandbox optional

Valence Labs

Saturday sandbox · after Yang, Wu & Arnold

Valence Labs (YouTube) reading-group talks on protein language models

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6/13 Watch 15 min? W21 Saturday Sandbox optional

Frances Arnold on iBiology

Saturday sandbox · after Valence Labs

Frances Arnold on iBiology (directed evolution talks; verify)

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2/10 Watch 15 min? W22 Saturday Sandbox optional

Cunningham, Causal Inference: The Mixtape

Saturday sandbox

Cunningham, Causal Inference: The Mixtape — mixtape.scunning.com, ch. 3 (directed acyclic graphs)

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In: LABLOOP-W22 Notebook

3/10 Read 30 min? W22 Saturday Sandbox 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

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4/10 Watch 15 min? W22 Saturday Sandbox optional

Coursera A Crash Course in Causality

Saturday sandbox · after Huntington-Klein, The Effect

Coursera A Crash Course in Causality (Penn), week 1

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5/10 Read 30 min? W22 Saturday Sandbox 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

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2/9 Watch 15 min? W23 Saturday Sandbox 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

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3/9 Watch 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)

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4/9 Watch 15 min? W23 Saturday Sandbox optional

Crash Course Biology #35 "Old & Odd"

Saturday sandbox · after iBiology talks on extremophiles and enzymes

Crash Course Biology #35 "Old & Odd" (carry over)

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2/9 Read 30 min? W24 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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3/9 Read 30 min? W24 Saturday Sandbox 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

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4/9 Read 30 min? W24 Saturday Sandbox optional

Center for Open Science / OSF preregistration templates

Saturday sandbox · after CRediT taxonomy

Center for Open Science / OSF preregistration templates (osf.io)

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5/9 Read 30 min? W24 Saturday Sandbox optional

Coursera Research Data Management and Sharing, module on data sharing agreements

Saturday sandbox · after Center for Open Science / OSF preregistration templates

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3/12 Run 30 min? W25 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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4/12 Run 30 min? W25 Saturday Sandbox optional

Bambi documentation

Saturday sandbox · after Michael Clark, Mixed Models with R

Bambi documentation (bambinos.github.io/bambi), Bayesian mixed models in one formula

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5/12 Watch 15 min? W25 Saturday Sandbox optional

StatQuest on ANOVA and "Design matrices"

Saturday sandbox · after Bambi documentation

StatQuest on ANOVA and "Design matrices" (search in channel)

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6/12 Read 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

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4/11 Read 30 min? W26 Saturday Sandbox optional

Sprouffske & Wagner

Saturday sandbox

Sprouffske & Wagner (2016), "Growthcurver: an R package for obtaining interpretable metrics from microbial growth curves", BMC Bioinformatics 17:172

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5/11 Watch 15 min? W26 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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6/11 Read 30 min? W26 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/11 Watch 15 min? W26 Saturday Sandbox optional

Khan Academy / LabXchange on spectrophotometry and optical density

Saturday sandbox · after NCATS Assay Guidance Manual

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3/10 Watch 15 min? W27 Saturday Sandbox 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

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4/10 Read 30 min? W27 Saturday Sandbox 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

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5/10 Watch 15 min? W27 Saturday Sandbox 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"

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6/10 Read 30 min? W27 Saturday Sandbox 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

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1/6 Watch 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

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2/6 Watch 15 min? W28 Saturday Sandbox optional

Stanford eCorner talks on first customers

Saturday sandbox · after Getting to Yes

Stanford eCorner talks on first customers (search)

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1/7 Read 30 min? W29 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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2/7 Read 30 min? W29 Saturday Sandbox 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

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4/10 Run 30 min? W30 Saturday Sandbox 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

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5/10 Read 30 min? W30 Saturday Sandbox 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

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3/8 Read 30 min? W31 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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4/8 Watch 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)

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5/8 Read 30 min? W31 Saturday Sandbox optional

Whitesides 2004

Saturday sandbox · after Stanford CS197 lecture on co-authoring and feedback

Whitesides 2004 (carry over)

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1/5 Read 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

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2/5 Read 30 min? W32 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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4/13 Read 30 min? W33 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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5/13 Read 30 min? W33 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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6/13 Read 30 min? W33 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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7/13 Read 30 min? W33 Saturday Sandbox optional

eLabFTW documentation

Saturday sandbox · after ICH E6(R3) Good Clinical Practice, data governance sections

eLabFTW documentation — doc.elabftw.net (installation and API)

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8/13 Read 30 min? W33 Saturday Sandbox 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

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4/12 Read 30 min? W34 Saturday Sandbox optional

Anthropic, "Introducing Contextual Retrieval"

Saturday sandbox

Anthropic, "Introducing Contextual Retrieval" (engineering blog, 2024)

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5/12 Read 30 min? W34 Saturday Sandbox 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

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6/12 Read 30 min? W34 Saturday Sandbox 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

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7/12 Read 30 min? W34 Saturday Sandbox 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)

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4/10 Read 30 min? W35 Saturday Sandbox optional

NIST Privacy Framework overview

Saturday sandbox

NIST Privacy Framework overview (nist.gov)

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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)

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6/10 Read 30 min? W35 Saturday Sandbox 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

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3/8 Read 30 min? W36 Saturday Sandbox optional

Coursera Writing in the Sciences module on "The publication process" and cover letters

Saturday sandbox

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4/8 Read 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

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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)

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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

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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

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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)

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1/6 Watch 15 min? W38 Saturday Sandbox optional

Nancy Duarte, "The secret structure of great talks"

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Nancy Duarte, "The secret structure of great talks" (TEDx, YouTube)

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Coursera Introduction to Public Speaking

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Coursera Introduction to Public Speaking (University of Washington), weeks 2-3

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a16z Bio + Health podcast

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a16z Bio + Health podcast (search an episode on biotech operations or AI in R&D)

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Nature Biotechnology "Bioentrepreneur" section articles on working with investors

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Uri Alon's talk and essay on "the cloud" in research

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Uri Alon's talk and essay on "the cloud" in research (iBiology; verify)

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Stanford Designing Your Life resources

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Stanford Designing Your Life resources (designingyour.life) — odyssey plan worksheets

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