WEEK 02 · ONE HUNDRED REAL BATCHES
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…
THE NEXT BLOCK
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
In: LABLOOP-W01 Notebook
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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