To find a needle in a haystack, looking at each straw needs to be a really cheap operation. Even if it was right there the whole time. "cheap and powerful eno

To find a needle in a haystack, looking at each straw needs to be a really cheap operation. Even if it was right there the whole time. "cheap and powerful enough that individual researchers can muck around with it at home" seems a pretty good measure of this, because of the explosion in width and pace of experimentation.