Adam Yaari

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The failure of @Harvard, @MIT and other universities to discipline protesters who violate their rules emboldens the protesters to more aggressive, disruptive and antisemitic actions. This has created a climate of fear that is not conducive to a university education.

The failure to discipline students who have bullied, assaulted or otherwise been abusive to Jewish students under the guise of free speech or a supposed requirement to wait for the completion of a police and FBI investigation is similarly absurd.

Imagine if a female student were sexually assaulted by five male Jewish students and it was captured on multiple videos.

Would @Harvard wait for the conclusion of an FBI and police investigation or would it suspend the students involved pending the outcome of the investigation?

Would @Harvard force the alleged victim to attend classes and live in a dorm with the accused until the investigation is complete?

The hypocrisy and double standard in how attacks on Jewish and Israeli students on campus are being handled by Harvard, MIT and other universities is self evident, and now we are beginning to see the consequences of the lack of enforcement of a universities’ own standards for student conduct and permitted speech.

The problem is only getting worse. I would not be surprised to see the white supremacists begin their campus protests shortly.

[Retsef Levi @RetsefL]

This is the reality that MIT President wants to hide. A letter from Israeli & Jewish MIT students:

To all students at MIT,

Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA.

This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in their offices for being Jewish and interrupted classes in the past few weeks. All of this has occurred with no clear response from the administration. With each passing day, MIT admin’s silence makes Jewish and Israeli students feel unsafe at MIT.

Many Jewish students fear leaving their dorm rooms and have stated that they feel MIT is not safe for Jews. This message is compounded by the public and private warnings of Hillel and many faculty that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby today, November 9th, 2023.

Instead of dispersing the mob or de-escalating the situation by rerouting all students from Lobby 7, Jewish students specifically were warned not to enter MIT’s front entrance due to a risk to their physical safety. The onus to protect Jewish students should not be on the students themselves.

MIT administration recently announced guidelines to avoid illegal and unsafe protests on campus. The CAA, which planned the protest, knowingly and proudly violated these requirements, and even invited people from outside of MIT to join them. Their actions inhibit the possibility of safe and peaceful dialogue and endanger Jewish students on campus.

The CAA hosted a blockade that not only disregards MIT guidelines, but also obstructs Jewish students from attending classes.

Some Jewish students who saw the administration’s failure to respond to the targeted harassment of Jews on campus by the CAA came together to support each other and peacefully together stand against this threat to their safety.

Four hours after the blockade started, at 12 pm, the MIT administration passed a letter to all students, threatening their suspension if the crowds did not disperse from Lobby 7. Only the Jewish students left immediately. The CAA protesters did not cooperate. Indeed, the CAA proceeded to invite more students and non-MIT protestors to join them in calling for a violent uprising (“Intifada”) and justifying the terror attacks of Hamas on Israeli civilians.

At 5 pm, all students on campus were warned through MIT’s emergency notification system to “avoid Lobby 7” –– officially recognizing the danger present to students as a result of this violent protest. No Jewish or Israeli students were present at this point.

As of 10:30 tonight MIT has officially decided not to academically suspend CAA students who repeatedly violated the administration's guidelines and threats. They have shown that actions against Jews at MIT do not have consequences. Additionally, in an email to DUSP students, the Department Head indicated that he would protect any DUSP students involved in violating MIT’s rules today by protesting with the CAA. Not only do Jewish students feel unsafe on campus, but now they also feel excluded from and unsafe in DUSP.

Today, on the 9th of November, on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust, Jews at MIT were told to enter campus from back entrances and not to stay in Hillel for fear of their physical safety.

We are seeing history repeating itself and Jews on MIT’s campus are afraid.

Signed,

The MIT Israel Alliance and its supporters

[Adam Yaari @AdamYaari]

@rohitsingh8080 @DukeU Very well deserved! All the best.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

LLMs do *not* capture much of human thought, because most of human thought and all of animal thought is entirely non verbal.

The factual, logical, and physical reasoning mistakes that current LLMs make clearly show that they have *not* captured much of human thought.

[Adam Yaari @AdamYaari]

Extremely excited to have my work with @m_a_sherman recognized with such an esteemed list of researchers.

[EACR @EACRnews]

💡 Highlights in Cancer Research, curated by the EACR Board, is our summary of the most interesting & impactful recent papers in #CancerResearch.

Read it in the Cancer Researcher: https://t.co/guCw0dooLd

Don't forget to come back here and share your thoughts!

[Max Sherman @m_a_sherman]

Delighted to have played a small role in this awesome paper revealing non-canonical open reading frames and microproteins in the human brain lead by @ErinDuffyLacy1 @briankalishMD and @MEGNeuro.

[Adam Yaari @AdamYaari]

We just launched Serinus Biosciences on @ycombinator's Launch YC!

Serinus Biosciences: Killing cancer with its own genetics 💪🏽. Check us out: https://t.co/tN3F4M2SGY via @ycombinator

[Adam Yaari @AdamYaari]

Thanks to @CD_AACR for this great piece on our recent work

[Cancer Discovery @CD_AACR]

Read this week's Cancer Discovery #ResearchWatch, Genome-wide Mutation Rate Modeling Identifies Novel Driver Mutations, a summary of the paper, by @m_a_sherman, @AdamYaari, @olivercpriebe, Po-Ru Loh, @lab_berger et al.
https://t.co/lodehICTFs
@MIT_CSAIL @broadinstitute

[Adam Yaari @AdamYaari]

Very excited to finally share this news! @SerinusBio is part of the @ycombinator S22 batch.

One step closer to helping patients with unmet needs 💊👩‍⚕️

[Max Sherman @m_a_sherman]

📢Big news 📢: @AdamYaari and I are launching @SerinusBio, a therapeutics startup in @ycombinator S22. Our white-box AI platform supercharges the drug development pipeline by unraveling what a drug will do in the cells of real patients. DM me for collaboration opportunities!

[Adam Yaari @AdamYaari]

Extremely excited to finally share this work on @NatureBiotech!

[Max Sherman @m_a_sherman]

So excited to share our paper "Genome-wide mapping of somatic mutation rates uncovers drivers of cancer" is out on @NatureBiotech (and open access)! https://t.co/XW3QoBV7Z1. Here's a🧵on what we did and what we found!

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Deep learning #AI to rapidly identify new driver mutations in 37 types of #cancer
https://t.co/C6V85OgfSj
by @MIT_CSAIL @lab_berger @m_a_sherman @olivercpriebe @AdamYaari @NatureBiotech

[Max Sherman @m_a_sherman]

Outrageously honored to be presenting our work learning somatic mutation rates to predict cancer drivers at today's #ASHG2021 plenary session. Tune in at 1:20pm to learn about our favorite results and ask-me-anything about the work during the Q&A.

[Max Sherman @m_a_sherman]

Curious how deep-learning can map somatic mutation rates and pinpoint cancer drivers genome-wide? See our new preprint https://t.co/Mi4nyv64nJ and spiffy genome browser of cancer mutation rates powered by @higlass_io! https://t.co/t6sgymPwUd @AdamYaari @FelixDietlein @pkerpedjiev

[Adam Yaari @AdamYaari]

Thank you @MIT_CSAIL for this spotlight on my recent work

[MIT CSAIL Alliances @csail_alliances]

"How do we process linear input into complex structures? How do we represent knowledge? What regions are involved in this process?" @MIT_CSAIL's Adam Yaari discusses how answering these questions could help models learn in a humanly plausible manner. https://t.co/0Y2yBWsMmS #AI