WEEK 01 · A TANK IN 80 LINES
Imagine a restaurant kitchen at 7 pm. The chef (the microbe) is cooking. The pantry (the substrate, sugar) is being emptied. The dishes going out (the product) pile up. The air in the kitchen (dissolved oxygen) gets thinner as more cooks join. At first nothing happens (the cooks arrive and put their aprons on: the lag phase), then orders fly (exponential growth), then the pantry runs low and the pace flattens (stati…
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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
By Sunday you should be able to say: “I can draw the growth curve, point at each phase, and show the line of code that creates it.”
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