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Re:AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of al... by d0mine on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:43AM (#40305604)
Why do you think systems of partial differential equations (common in physics) are somehow provide more understanding than the corresponding ML math (at the end of the day both can produce results using a lots of matrix multiplications).
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Re:AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of al... by drdeca on Thursday May 09, 2024 @02:28AM (#40305797)
... because people understand things about what is described when dealing with such systems in physics, and people don't understand how the weights in ML learned NNs produce the overall behavior? (For one thing, the number of parameters is much greater with the NNs)
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Re:AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of al... by d0mine on Thursday May 09, 2024 @08:51AM (#40307690)
Looking at Navier-Stokes equations tells you very little about the weather tomorrow.
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Re:AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of al... by drdeca on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:42PM (#40310054)
Sure. It does tell you things about fluids though.
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