WEEK 18 · WRITE PAPER 2
The second time you do anything hard, it is a different activity. Paper 1 taught you the shape of a paper; Paper 2 is where you learn the voice. A modeling paper is read by sceptical engineers who have seen a hundred "our model beats the baseline" claims, so the voice must be calm, precise and generous with limitations: simulated data, one process, no real plant. That honesty is not a weakness; it is what makes the …
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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)
In: LABLOOP-W17 Notebook
By Sunday you should be able to say: “My Paper 2 draft makes one strong, bounded claim and lists its limitations before a reviewer does.”
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