sokrypton: the goal is shrinking the search space using billions of years of evolution

sokrypton · x · 2026-11-04

Wrapping up his argument, sokrypton states the goal isn't to solve the problem (AlphaFold hasn't fully solved structure prediction either), but to significantly reduce the search space by taking advantage of the greatest experiment on earth: billions of years of evolution.

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