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artninja1988yesterday at 6:00 PM1 replyview on HN

He was leading the development of AlphaFold, the AI system that predicts protein structures for which he got the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.


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yuffffleyyesterday at 8:07 PM

I remember that.

That was when they realized the deep learning was largely unnecessary, and they could just use their massive compute resources to brute force the problem space.

Proving that we would greatly benefit from using our compute resources for science rather than showing ads, and then we just kept showing ads.

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