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…
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 draw the growth curve, point at each phase, and show the line of code that creates it.”
MOMENTUM
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