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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by rtsil on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:43PM (#25261694)
> Industry cares about results, its more meritocratic

Industry cares about positive results. If you're not allowed to fail, you will be afraid to explore. That's what Academia is. Then, the industry reaps the fruit of that exploration, which is as it should be.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by haihaibye on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:11AM (#25263402)
High impact journals care about positive results and academia very much cares about journals.

You need to win grants to survive.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by JPLeRouzic on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:31AM (#25263505)
In my (one point) experience of industry R&D more projects failed than succeeded, but project leaders were not blamed.

How could one predict success or failure in risky project proposals? In both cases you learn something.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by njanirudh on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:25AM (#25263477)
If academia actually allowed failure we wouldn't be getting so many tiny incremental growth papers just for the sake of it as in deep learning and machine learning.
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