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Edit: I just realized this is a self-promotion to drive clicks to the posters blog @dang This “article” is simply taking some numbers from Wikipedia and tossing them in a word salad with a single excel chart. The difference is the computing power available increased, allowing for better solutions. The money being available is also a key factor. It’s not terribly complicated; we iterated on ideas, tried new things, and had far more computing power and more mature tools. That affected the materials science that this all relied on in similar ways.