David Baker gives Royal Society Croonian Lecture on computational protein design
mmbronstein · x · 2026-11-05
Nobel laureate David Baker delivered the Royal Society Croonian Prize Lecture on "Advances in computational protein design."
Audience photos of slides capture his point contrasting mathematics and biology: in math you can prove things and branch on answers — for example, when you train a language model on mathematics, you know whether the answer is right — implying biology's verification loop works differently. An interactive slides.com link accompanied the talk.
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