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1/18 Watch 6 min W01 Monday Craft

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

Monday build block · Monday, before coding

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

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2/18 Read 30 min? W01 Monday Craft

SciPy docs, scipy.integrate.solve_ivp

Monday build block · after LearnChemE (CU Boulder) · "Monod Cell Growth Example (Bio)"

Replace predator-prey with biomass-substrate and Monday's task is mostly done

Read exactly: The Examples section only, especially the Lotka-Volterra style system

Produce: The working ODE skeleton in batchlens/sim/monod.py

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3/18 Read 30 min? W01 Tuesday Craft

OpenStax Biology 2e, 6.5 Enzymes

Tuesday · B1

Enzyme + substrate is literally the shape of the Monod term S/(Ks+S) you code on Monday

Read exactly: Whole section, plus the chapter-6 review questions reachable from Ch. 6 Introduction if time allows

Produce: 5 questions at the end of notes/bio/B1.md; answer them yourself next week

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4/18 Read 30 min? W01 Wednesday Craft

eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.python README

Wednesday build block

Wednesday's telemetry hop, nothing more

Read exactly: "Publish a single message" example

Produce: The publisher in the Wednesday artifact

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5/18 Watch 30 min W01 Thursday Craft

3Blue1Brown · Essence of Linear Algebra

Thursday · M1 · Thursday, first

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

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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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15/18 Run 30 min W01 Build

jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook

Colab: notebook 02.00-Introduction-to-NumPy and 02.02-The-Basics-Of-NumPy-Arrays; re-do the 3Blue1Brown matrix-on-vector examples in NumPy

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16/18 Run 30 min W01 Build

fastai/numerical-linear-algebra

Colab: lesson 1 notebook; skim, run the first cells. Linear algebra as computation, not proofs

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17/18 Run 30 min W01 Build

scipy/scipy

Copy the solve_ivp Lotka-Volterra example; replace predator-prey with biomass-substrate. This is 70% of your Monday task

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18/18 Run 30 min W01 Build

Pioreactor/pioreactor

Read README and the docs page on growth-rate estimation; no hardware needed. Shows how real online signals look

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