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by bnprks 4y ago
From the paper's abstract "We found a very weak or no correlation between AlphaFold output metrics and change of protein stability or fluorescence. Our results imply that AlphaFold may not be immediately applied to other problems
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by bnprks 4y ago
I'm also intrigued by the business opportunities of providing more ways for fans to spend money than just buying a new laptop every 4 years. If I can upgrade to a new mainboard and turn my old one into a functional desktop, I'm mu
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by bnprks 4y ago
Yes, but it's more unusual to find an adversarial attack that can be described in human terms and successfully executed by a human against two different models
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by bnprks 4y ago
One useful perspective to consider is the costs of computation compared to the costs of the experiment. Considering sequencing costs alone (ignoring costs of obtaining & processing a biological sample), Illumina's current cheapest
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by bnprks 4y ago
One recent method that does this is SPRING: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6662292/ Although I'm not familiar with all the details of the method, my understanding is that the reference used
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by bnprks 4y ago
To add some relevant facts from my experience as a current Stanford PhD student: If I work over the summer my yearly take-home pay is about $50k pre-tax [1]. This is theoretically for 20 hours/week of research work "for my advisor
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by bnprks 4y ago
> Data, Materials, and Code Availability > [...] However, sharing the AlphaZero algorithm code, network weights, or generated representation data would be technically infeasible at present. Very interesting paper overall. However, the
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by bnprks 5y ago
I'm pretty new to Zig, but after taking another look recently I was pleasantly surprised by the progress on SIMD operations via builtin Vector types [1],[2]. For an application of "I want to speed up my math-intensive code with SI