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This is incredibly exciting stuff and all I keep thinking of is why the hell aren’t governments pouring money into research like this? ML models like this need
by bazmattaz 3y ago
This is incredibly exciting stuff and all I keep thinking of is why the hell aren’t governments pouring money into research like this?
ML models like this need training examples and The article talks about manual testing thousands of compounds to gather enough training data. This is where lots of money could have a huge benefit. The more high quality data a model has the better it’s accuracy
- droopyEyelids 3y agoThe way governments pour money into this is by funding grants at research universities. This came out of McMaster, though, and I don't know if the Canadian government does funding the same way as we do in the USA. Still it raises an ugly question, why can discoveries funded by the citizens of a country be turned into the patented property of private companies.
- Fomite 3y agoCanadian and U.S. research funding work very differently
- Fomite 3y agoWhat makes you think they aren't? I can name four or five labs on my floor that are currently working on various aspects of antimicrobial resistance, all of which are government funded.