Andrew White
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jan
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MD was supposed to be the protein folding solution.
There is a great counterexample.
The counterfactual is basically a group called Desres, Deeshaw Research.
They had, you know, similar funding to DeepMind, probably more actually.
They tested the hypothesis to death that MD could fold proteins.
They built their own silicon, they built their own clusters, they had them taped out all themselves.
They burned into the silicone.
The algorithms to run MD, they ran MD at huge speeds, huge scales.
I remember David Shaw came to a conference once on MD and he flew in by helicopter and like to this pretty pretty famous guy, kind of rich.
And um he he gave uh an amazing presentation about the special computers and special room and out outside of Times Square and like what they can do with it.
It was beautiful, amazing.
And I always thought that protein filming would be solved by them.
But it would require a special machine.
Maybe the government would buy like five of these things and we could fold, you know, maybe one protein a day or two proteins a day.
And when AlphaFold came out and it's like you can do it in Google Colab, you know, or on a GP or desktop, it was so mind blowing.
I forget like that protein folding was solved.
I always thought that was inevitable.
But the fact that it was solved and on like your desktop you can do it was just completely floored, changed everything.
Uh hi, I'm Andrew from San Francisco, former professor, now running two startups.
Uh one that's a nonprofit research lab and one that's a for-profit venture-backed company.
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