455 CARDS · 41 WEEKS · EVERY SOURCE THE PLAN NAMES

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Every video, chapter, paper and repository in the programme, as one card each, with the time it costs and why it is there. Filter by how long you have.

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1/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

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

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

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

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

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2/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

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

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

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

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

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3/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

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

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

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

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

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4/15 Run 30 min? W00 Saturday Sandbox optional

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

Saturday sandbox

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

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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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8/15 Watch 18 min W00 Sunday Craft

Barbara Oakley · "Learning how to learn"

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

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

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9/15 Watch 60 min W00 Sunday Craft

Richard Hamming · "You and Your Research"

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

Produce: Same output as R1

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10/15 Watch 40 min W00 Craft

Learning How to Learn

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

Produce: Nothing. Do not enrol in the whole course

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11/15 Read 30 min? W00 Craft

The Turing Way handbook

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

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

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

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12/15 Run 30 min W00 Build

astral-sh/uv

uv init batchlens && uv add numpy scipy pandas matplotlib; your environment manager for all 40 weeks

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13/15 Run 30 min W00 Build

ollama/ollama

ollama run qwen2.5:7b-instruct-q4_K_M "explain Monod growth in two sentences"; confirm it fits the 3050

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14/15 Run 30 min W00 Build

drivendataorg/cookiecutter-data-science

Read the folder structure in the README; copy only the ideas (data/raw never committed, reports/figures) into your skeletons

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15/15 Run 30 min W00 Build

the-turing-way/the-turing-way

Browse the "Guide for reproducible research" table of contents; save two checklists to PARKING.md

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