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The reproducible part is that they can consistently fold proteins - which they can. The fact that they're not telling anybody else how they did it stops it fro
by learnstats2 6y ago
The reproducible part is that they can consistently fold proteins - which they can.
The fact that they're not telling anybody else how they did it stops it from being public science, but doesn't stop it from being science.
- ISL 6y agoThere are two terms that may be conflated in this particular discussion. Reproducible: Can it be done again? Replicable: Can someone else do it? AF2 appears to be reproducible, but not yet replicable. https://phys.org/news/2019-05-replicability-science.html#:~:text=Reproducibility%20means%20obtaining%20consistent%20computational,has%20obtained%20its%20own%20data https://phys.org/news/2019-05-replicability-science.html#:~:....
- YetAnotherNick 6y ago> Can someone else do it? > but not yet replicable. Why not? I don't see a blocker except for the money to create a team and the computational resources. I think AlphaGo/Zero was harder to replicate than this, still Leela's team managed to get it working.
- NeutronStar 6y agoHow do I replicate the code (procedure) if I can't see the code (procedure) ?
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