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I remember several years ago when I was still doing my PhD, there's this contest about predicting protein structure and none of them was working well. At that time, I would never have thought we could have anything like AlphaFold in a few years.
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https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-2021

Science

Science’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year: AI brings protein structures to all

Bounty of new structures will forever change biology and medicine

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Nielsen M. Reinventing discovery: The New Era of networked science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; 2011.

I found this book this morning and skimmed through it. It looks concise yet unique.
The author discusses how the internet is changing the way human beings think as one collective intelligence. I like the chapters about how the data web is enabling more scientific discoveries.

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https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/

> Research debt is the accumulation of missing interpretive labor. It’s extremely natural for young ideas to go through a stage of debt, like early prototypes in engineering.

That is because our value system doesn’t respect interpretors…

Distill

Research Debt

Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt...

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The ergodicity problem in economics | Nature Physics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0732-0

I read another paper about hot hand/gamblers' fallacy a while ago and the author of that paper took a similar view. Here is the article:
Surprised by the Hot Hand Fallacy ? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers by Miller

Nature

The ergodicity problem in economics

Nature Physics - This Perspective argues that ergodicity — a foundational concept in equilibrium statistical physics — is wrongly assumed in much of the quantitative economics...