Wild to think ad clicks paid to (essentially) solve the protein structure prediction problem
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+having fun playing videogames paved the way for modern ML via massive demand for ever more powerful GPUs
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but the AlexNet breakthrough in using GPUs for DL came a while after the invention of powerful GPUs for gaming 😛
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Apparently Geoff Hinton once told Greg Brockman that AlexNet "was due to Alex Krizhevsky's GPU coding skills and Ilya [Sutskever]'s conviction that a deep neural network was bound to win on ImageNet". blog.gregbrockman.com/define-cto-ope
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GPU programming was (is?) a pretty difficult/obscure skill, and as I understand it neural nets were out of vogue before 2012. I think this was one of these situations where you needed someone (or a small group) who had several obscure skills/beliefs working on the same thing.