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		tiborsaas on July 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AlphaFold 2 is here: what’s behind the structure p... This was never really a bottleneck for science. One needs to realize first that something can be done, then it will be done. The cost of computing will also go down in the future and for government funds this sounds like a drop in the sea when they are building multi billion dollar particle accelerators.

marvin on July 20, 2021 [–]

Imagine building a multi billion dollar computing cluster solely for research.

I guess the main reason it hasn't been done is that the deprecation is still huge due to chip advancements.

ma2rten on July 20, 2021 | [–]

There is something like this: https://bigscience.huggingface.co/en/#!index.md

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