ibdp physics
My Research Struggle: How I Built the Tool I Wish I’d Had
As a bioinformatician, I remember the exact research question that started my journey: “Can we predict the function of hypothetical proteins from the human genome using only computational methods?” The problem was, I had no clear road map. My first year and a half felt less like a scientific investigation and more like a technician’s…
Building a Curiosity Engine: The Story of the Image Analyzer
It started with a picture I found online. My brain, like any physics teacher’s, quickly put a label on it: “calorimeter.” It was a copper pot with a lid, so it seemed obvious. But something was bugging me. A normal calorimeter has a simple stirrer to gently mix the water. This one had a complex…