WEEK 02 · ONE HUNDRED REAL BATCHES

Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.

Last week you flew the simulator. This week you open the black boxes of 100 real flights. IndPenSim is a benchmark built by researchers from an industrial-scale penicillin fermentation: 100 batches, each hours long, with temperature, pH, oxygen, feeds, and even Raman spectra, some of them with faults. The first feeling will be overwhelm: dozens of variables, thousands of time points. Your job is the job you have don…

If you only do one thing this week: the tidy parquet of IndPenSim

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5/15 Watch 22 min W02 Thursday Craft

StatQuest · "Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Step-by-Step"

Thursday · M2 · after 3Blue1Brown · Essence of Calculus · Before Friday's PCA code

Produce: The 3-line explanation of scores vs loadings you will paste into Sunday's post

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In: LABLOOP-W02 Notebook

↻ Something else See everything in week 02 →

By Sunday you should be able to say: “I can explain what a faulty batch looks like in a PCA scores plot and why respiration makes oxygen fall when biomass rises.”

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