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This is neat, and I click the little upvote because hyper-optimizations are a delight. But realistically, is there any real-world situation where one would use
by llm_nerd 1y ago
This is neat, and I click the little upvote because hyper-optimizations are a delight.
But realistically, is there any real-world situation where one would use this? What niche or industry or need would benefit from this, where the dependency + setup costs are worth it. Strings just seem to be a long-solved non-issue.
- ashvardanian 1y agoThis last wave of work was actually triggered by the industry over the last 2 years, as the volume of biological sequence data is growing rapidly and more BioTech and Pharma companies are rushing to scale computational pipelines. Namely, if you look at DeepMind’s AlphaFold 1 and 2, bulk volume of compute time is spent outside of PyTorch - running sequence alignment. Historically, with BLAST. More recently, in other labs, with some of my code :)