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by Hermitian909 1010 days ago
Very similar in nature yes - we had a few rather spectacular results using only techniques from the 80s and earlier.

A lot of the revolution is coming from material scientists doing the work of creating data sets that encode their knowledge, better computational techniques in the field (e.g. DFT[0]), and democratization of petabyte scale data pipelines.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_functional_theory