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A review on protein language models

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Re: A review on protein language models

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I’m happily impressed that non experts find this area intriguing. I hope more people start to work at the interface of biology, chemistry, and AI.

Dan Gusfield wrote a book in 1997 entitled "Algorithms on strings, trees and sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology". We (what was then the Center for Advanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland) found some of the techniques described there to be useful in (natural) language analysis, particularly morphology and for comparing words in related languages.

Re: A review on protein language models

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I am gobsmacked by how little programmers know about the underpinnings of actual human language. This guy sounds like a SoCal 1960s burnout going on about being one with language of the forest.

To be fair there is a disclaimer about the limits of metaphor, plus the article is really about protein folding, not natural language. Still, I'm curious as to which "underpinnings of actual human language" you think he's misunderstanding or misrepresenting?

Re: A review on protein language models

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I am gobsmacked by how little programmers know about the underpinnings of actual human language. This guy sounds like a SoCal 1960s burnout going on about being one with language of the forest.

Unrelated to conversation. But Apoorva is a female name. So its probably she. :)

Re: A review on protein language models

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I am gobsmacked by how little programmers know about the underpinnings of actual human language. This guy sounds like a SoCal 1960s burnout going on about being one with language of the forest.

Unrelated to conversation. But Apoorva is a female name. So its probably she. :)

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