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kridsdale1 • 02/19/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

That’s similar to how Google won in distributed systems. They used cheap PCs in shipping containers when everyone else was buying huge expensive SUN etc servers.


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dekhn • 02/19/2025

yes, and that's the reason I went to work at google: to get access to their distributed systems and use ML to scale up biology. I never was able to join Google Research and do the work I wanted (but DeepMind went ahead and solved protein structure prediction, so, the job got done anyway).

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