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Michael Nielsen
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Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us
AlphaFold's headline success rests primarily on the Protein Data Bank's roughly 180,000 experimentally obtained structures, not model capability alone.Nielsen argues bottlenecks migrate where methods fail, making research portfolios important: Uranus led to Neptune, while Mercury led to nonexistent Vulcan and required general relativity.