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On “A Primer on Molecular Dynamics”
There is brilliant video by the hedge fund manager DE Shaw about molecular dynamics simulation. Its very accessible and I found it very interesting — link to this video
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Anton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations
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- Presented by David Shaw, founder of D. E. Shaw Research
Advanced. Deep dive for people who know the field.
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HardwareSystems programmingCPUs and computer architecturePerformance and optimization
David Shaw explains the architecture and design of Anton, a special-purpose supercomputer designed to speed up molecular dynamics simulations.
SPEAKER & AFFILIATION: David Shaw, D. E. Shaw Research DESCRIPTION & LINK: This lecture has been videocast from the Computer Science Department at UNC. The abstract of this lecture and a brief speaker biography is available at research.csc.ncsu.edu/colloquia/seminar-post.php?id=428 For a complete transcript of this lecture, go to ncsu.edu/youtube/transcript/shaw-transcript.rtfWhy it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Recommended as an accessible and fascinating explanation of custom hardware design for molecular dynamics simulations.
cmaon Hacker News • Mentions
On “AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution”
I'm not giving you what you want, but here's a visual example of using a computational microscope to understand how drug actually works and finds its binding site: link to this video If you can't see a difference between that and say, X-Ray crystallography then well..
conformiston Hacker News • Mentions
On “David Shaw vs. Seymour Papert Debate (1995) [video]”
There are also some more recent academic talks of his on youtube, mostly focused on his bio-informatics research. E.g. link to this video
max_on Hacker News • Mentions
On “Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on in 2024 -ideally not crowded already?”
…o start would be exploring abandoned AI strategies like Genetics Algorithms & Markov Logic >What are some practical applications of complex systems? - Modeling Financial Markets 1 - Drug discovery via Molecular Dynamics Simulations 2 - Urban Planning 3 - Modeling Epidemics 4 - Cosmology - Computer Graphics - Much more .... 1: link 2: link to this video 3: link 4: link If interested, subscribe to these podcasts. 1: Simplifying Complexity: link 2: Complexity: link…