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That’s similar to how Google won in distributed systems. They used cheap PCs in shipping containers when everyone else was buying huge expensive SUN etc servers

That’s similar to how Google won in distributed systems. They used cheap PCs in shipping containers when everyone else was buying huge expensive SUN etc servers.

dekhn 2y ago
yes, and that's the reason I went to work at google: to get access to their distributed systems and use ML to scale up biology. I never was able to join Google Research and do the work I wanted (but DeepMind went ahead and solved protein structure prediction, so, the job got done anyway).
- shpongled 2y ago
  They really didn't solve it. AF works great for proteins that have a homologous protein with a crystal structure. It is absolutely useless for proteins with no published structure to use as a template - e.g. many of the undrugged cancer targets in existence.
  - dekhn 2y ago
    that's not true (I work in the field) but it's not an interesting argument to have.
  - shpongled 2y ago
    @dekhn it is true (I also work in the field. I'm a software engineer who got a wet-lab PhD in biochemistry and work at a biotech doing oncology drug discovery)