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This is certainly a nice paper, but it is also a bit puzzling that this was noteworthy enough to be published in Nature.
by msamwald 7y ago
This is certainly a nice paper, but it is also a bit puzzling that this was noteworthy enough to be published in Nature.
- roenxi 7y ago> an unsupervised method can recommend materials for functional applications several years before their discovery It is probably hype, but if that sentence is taken literally it would be huge. The limits on human innovation have historically been chemical/materials science related rather than a lack of imagination. Anything that allows search to be deployed on things that don't even exist would be ... well, big.
- tastroder 7y ago> It is probably hype, but if that sentence is taken literally it would be huge. It's not really that hype but it's also neither that novel and results in this type of domain still have to be verified through other means. $foo2vec papers have been doing this for several domains, framed as text retrieval and link prediction / knowledge base completion, for a few years now.
- bobosha 7y agovery puzzling indeed that it's Nature worthy. The authors used Gensin word2vec to extract embeddings from a custom corpora. Well I did that twice last week for my application.
- empath75 7y agoSomeone got a Nobel prize recently for sticking some scotch tape on a pencil lead. It’s not necessarily the tool that matters.
- its_the_future 7y agoLink for the curious https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-11478645 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-11478645
- scarcelycoher 7y agoShould it have been published in Nurture instead?
- cscurmudgeon 7y agoFurthermore, we demonstrate that an unsupervised method can recommend materials for functional applications several years before their discovery. This suggests that latent knowledge regarding future discoveries is to a large extent embedded in past publications.