alt Hacker NewsPissed me off since day one that got by with that "solving" shit. Not to downplay what they did, but it had little to do with the problem as it's been understood to mean.
And to be clear I do think it was nobel worthy.
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moralestapia • today at 5:51 PM
I do not think it was Nobel worthy for Hassam et. al.
David Baker is the GOAT of that field, it should have been awarded to him only.
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Yes, they have a probabilistic model, not an analytical solution.
OTOH I don't think they made up the "solved" label - the CASP benchmark had always considered reaching the AlphaFold level of predictive accuracy (within error tolerance of our ability to experimentally verify via X-ray crystallography etc) as "solving" the problem.