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Amen! More long-term staff scientist jobs of all stripes! One lesson I hope people take away from AlphaGo/AlphaFold (and a lot of the work coming out of the Al
by mattkrause 6y ago
Amen! More long-term staff scientist jobs of all stripes!
One lesson I hope people take away from AlphaGo/AlphaFold (and a lot of the work coming out of the Allen Institutes, Broad, etc) is that some really amazing work can be done when big groups of experienced people can work together on a project.
- walleeee 6y agoSeriously! My lab does plant root growth modeling, which (like protein folding) is a 3D morphology prediction problem. Tweaking crops for even a small increase in carbon uptake and sequestration in soil (e.g., via deeper or longer roots) may be able to cut a sizeable chunk out of annual CO2 emissions[0], but almost nobody's working on it because it doesn't have direct applications to human healthcare. [0]: http://www.nature.com/articles/nature17174 http://www.nature.com/articles/nature17174