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Eric Marcus

@EricMarcus_

Former string theorist gone AI | I like progress, creativity, and people

Joined June 2021
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The education system time and time again proves to be the place where knowledge and creativity go to die. I dream of the day that so many AI algorithms become publicly available that it is hopelessly impossible to ban them; that no student has to write pointless essays again.
Moritz Wallawitsch (@MoritzW42) profile pictureMoritz Wallawitsch@MoritzW425 Jan 2023
how to slow down human progress? let government agencies block websites that augment human intellect to preserve a broken education system
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I solved a foundational problem for quantum mechanics and all future physics. I am seeking independent patronage to continue unhurried, foundational research. arxiv.org/abs/1710.01380 1/2
The equivalence of local-realistic and no-signalling theories

The equivalence of local-realistic and no-signalling theories

We provide a framework that describe all local-realistic theories and all no-signalling theories. We show that every local-realistic theory is a no-signalling theory. We also show that every...

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RT @Sam_kuyp: Can AI surpass human intelligence? Maybe, but not without a philosophical breakthrough. Together with @EricMarcus_ and Max V…
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xlr8harder
@xlr8harder10 May 2025
People say "to predict the next token well you must understand the underlying reality." Not so. Ptolemy's epicycles predicted planetary positions to within a few arc-minutes, yet captured none of the underlying physics. Prediction is not the same as understanding.
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The West, or perhaps only the Anglosphere, is the historically unique idea that individuals exist not for the sake of their ruler, their class, their society, their ancestors, their gods, or any other such superstition, but for their own sake.
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If we taught children to speak, they’d never learn. Great criticism against schools by John Holt in his book How Children Learn
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The EU is killing innovation with endless regulations. When will they finally regulate the one entity that truly needs it—the EU itself?
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Naval
@naval30 Jul 2017
The best thing about @elonmusk is that he makes me question if I’m thinking big enough with my life.
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Sam@Sam_kuyp18 Apr 2024
An important paper about AI and Popper by @EricMarcus_. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Our latest paper - Task-Driven Wavelets Using Constrained Empirical Risk Minimization - has been accepted at CVPR for an oral presentation. Congratulations to @EricMarcus_, Ray Sheombarsing and @jonasteuwen for being in the top 3% of all the accepted papers!
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🚨 Our #XAI research in EJR emphasizes the vital role of explanations in AI, with a focus on radiology. Even the darkest of black boxes can be explained. #ExplainableAI @EricMarcus_ @jonasteuwen sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Two of our lab’s papers — “Task-Driven Wavelets using Constrained Empirical Risk Minimization” and “Kandinsky Conformal Prediction” — have been accepted at #CVPR2024! Big congrats to @EricMarcus_, Ray Sheombarsing, @jorenwb, and @jonasteuwen :) aiforoncology.nl/news/2024-0…
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Joscha Bach
@Plinz10 Aug 2023
So far, all of AI safety engineering has only led to making AI less useful. Change my mind.
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Respect and awe. A palaeolithic person presented with just one of those road signs (let alone one of the advertising signs – let alone what they advertise) could have spent a day marvelling at its beauty and majesty.
New Liberals (@CNLiberalism) profile pictureNew Liberals
@CNLiberalism30 May 2023
This video is a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard this photo with respect, or disgust?
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This is Breezewood, Pennsylvania. It’s a mega-rest-stop made possible by a quirk of federal highway funding that produced an awkward transition from Interstate 70 to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Happy to share our preprint of our latest work "Constrained Empirical Risk Minimization: Theory and Practice". We've developed a novel approach for incorporating constraints directly into the Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) framework. 👉arxiv.org/abs/2302.04729 🧵
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Excited to share STAPLER, a language model to predict TCR – pMHC reactivity that outperforms prior models. And for ML aficionados: Description of a new data leakage problem inherent to a common negative data generation strategy. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🧵👇
STAPLER: Efficient learning of TCR-peptide specificity prediction from full-length TCR-peptide data

STAPLER: Efficient learning of TCR-peptide specificity prediction from full-length TCR-peptide data

The prediction of peptide-MHC (pMHC) recognition by αβ T-cell receptors (TCRs) remains a major biomedical challenge. Here, we develop STAPLER (Shared TCR And Peptide Language bidirectional Encoder...

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Yann LeCun
@ylecun1 Apr 2023
<not_an_april_fool_joke> By amplifying human intelligence, AI may cause a new Renaissance, perhaps a new phase of the Enlightenment. But prophecies of AI doom are also causing a new form of medieval obscurantism. </not_an_april_fool_joke>
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Terrible argument. And her next brilliant take: the Roman civilisation is a calculational tool to predict the emergence of dusty, barely-usable pottery, buried deep underground.
Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh) profile pictureSabine Hossenfelder
@skdh20 Mar 2023
The wave-function in quantum mechanics is necessary to describe observations. It's useful to that end and therefore a good scientific hypothesis. Postulating the existence of universes that we don't observe does nothing to describe the universe we do observe. It's not scientific.
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Imagine their next article: Archeology says nothing about the world. Instead, archeology only describes probabilities of finding old, dusty, and barely usable housing deeply underground.
David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) profile pictureDavid Deutsch
@DavidDeutschOxf14 Feb 2023
The anti-scientific nonsense of instrumentalism is still being taught in science courses: "Quantum physics says nothing about how the world is. Instead, quantum physics only describes […] probabilities for the outcomes that may happen in an experiment." scientificamerican.com/artic…
Quantum Entanglement Isn't All That Spooky After All

Quantum Entanglement Isn't All That Spooky After All

The way we teach quantum theory conveys a spookiness that isn’t actually there

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One of the most beautiful 'fits' to some data you will ever see. I think next they should run some randomized control trials to really prove this amazing thesis.
Science Advances (@ScienceAdvances) profile pictureScience Advances@ScienceAdvances2 Feb 2023
Americans with kindred political ideologies share similar patterns in neural activity, according to a new neuroimaging study. scim.ag/1o4
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Get your dose of Popper
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@arjunkhemani7 Feb 2023
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