2024-10-06
Terry Tao on math and AI, in @TheAtlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician, on OpenAI's o1, how AI might be useful to mathematicians, and more
Terence Tao, the world's greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI. — Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence.
2020-12-01
DeepMind's AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures. The “deep-learning network was head-and-shoulders above other teams and, say scientists, performed so mind-bogglingly well that it could herald a revolution in biology.” #whoa https://www.nature.com/...
New York Times
Alphabet's DeepMind says it has solved the key “protein folding problem”, cutting the job down from months to hours, which could speed up drug discovery
Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved “the protein folding problem,” a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years.
2019-10-09
This article may seem silly. But it says something that startled me when I first heard it years ago: who are the ideal quants for tech and finance? Astrophysicists. They know math & physics, they're great at coding, and they're at home with noisy data https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
A growing number of astrophysicists are leaving academia to join data science teams at tech companies amid a surging demand for machine learning expertise
Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it's stars or Stitch Fix, it's all about machine learning. Tweets: @wi...