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mk · 3240 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Computer Just Solved This 100-Year-Old Biology Problem
Don't get me wrong. I don't see this as a panacea. I am a biomedical researcher, and in you might be surprised how often scientists focus and search for 'a mechanism' when the idea is often ridiculous in a complex system of interconnected positive and negative feedback loops. My hope is that this kind of analysis leads to a more wholistic scientific understanding. That said, I don't buy that this is computational hypothesis creation. That's a very selective way of looking at what the program does, IMO.