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 Pioreactor project docs (pioreactor.com) — see a real, open-source mini bioreactor with optical…
OpenStax Biology 2e, ch. 3 "Biological Macromolecules" — 3-introduction, start at 3.1 Synthesis of Biological Macromolecules — 3.1 and the protein section; skim carbohydrates and lipids; finish on Chapter Summary. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29
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
2026-09-29 18:29 Finished: SciPy docs, scipy.integrate.solve_ivp2026-09-29 17:44 Finished: LearnChemE (CU Boulder) · "Monod Cell Growth Example (Bio)"2026-09-28 22:11 Finished: Crash Course Biology #3 · "Biological Molecules2026-09-28 21:50 Finished: OpenStax Biology 2e2026-09-25 11:16 Finished: OpenStax Biology 2e