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Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust by mattkrause on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @06:47PM (#25271611)
Amen! More long-term staff scientist jobs of all stripes!

One lesson I hope people take away from AlphaGo/AlphaFold (and a lot of the work coming out of the Allen Institutes, Broad, etc) is that some really amazing work can be done when big groups of experienced people can work together on a project.

Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust by walleeee on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:03PM (#25271729)
Seriously! My lab does plant root growth modeling, which (like protein folding) is a 3D morphology prediction problem. Tweaking crops for even a small increase in carbon uptake and sequestration in soil (e.g., via deeper or longer roots) may be able to cut a sizeable chunk out of annual CO2 emissions[0], but almost nobody's working on it because it doesn't have direct applications to human healthcare.

[0]: http://www.nature.com/articles/nature17174

Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust by whymauri on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:50PM (#25282832)
This is really cool and I wasn't aware of this previously. Thanks for sharing!
Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust by walleeee on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:25AM (#25290519)
Sure thing! Seems almost nobody is (I wasn't until a year ago)