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The lesson from AlphaFold for mathematicians

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The reaction to OpenAI’s claimed Navier–Stokes solution reminds me of AlphaFold. Protein structure prediction used to be a major research specialty. For students it was often one PhD to get one protein.Then AlphaFold made high-quality predictions available to basically everyone for free. Protein sc…

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  1. 2026-09-11 11:31 · r/singularity
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