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The lesson of AlphaFold is if you take some experienced senior scientists and pay them well to work on a big challenge, they make progress. This is so very diff
by Gatsky 4y ago
The lesson of AlphaFold is if you take some experienced senior scientists and pay them well to work on a big challenge, they make progress. This is so very different to what actually happens in academic research.
- fny 4y agoThe lead on the project was a few years out of grad school. The technique is what mattered. Not the experience. There have been many labs dedicated to this problem for years. They never even came close.
- Gatsky 4y agoNonsense. The first and corresponding author on the original Nature paper, Andrew Senior, was not a few years out of grad school[1], he's worked at Google for the last 14 years, and started working at IBM in 1994 [2]. [1] http://www.andrewsenior.com/technical/ http://www.andrewsenior.com/technical/ [2] https://research.google/people/author37792/ https://research.google/people/author37792/