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by D-Machine 192 days ago
Yeah this article is garbage. The real problem with protein-folding is not compute, or training on known configurations only, but figuring out a differentiable loss that is related to the energy configuration of generated new sequences / molecules, and iterative folding and all sorts of other things. It is very much NOT just a "throw lots of data at GPUs" problem.

This is all covered cursorily even by Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold#AlphaFold_2_(2020).