Eric Marcus

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

[Eric Marcus @EricMarcus_]

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]

how to slow down human progress?

let government agencies block websites that augment human intellect to preserve a broken education system

[Paul Raymond-Robichaud @PaulRRobichaud]

I solved a foundational problem for quantum mechanics and all future physics. I am seeking independent patronage to continue unhurried, foundational research.
https://t.co/MHs4xnhL6z

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[Eric Marcus @EricMarcus_]

RT @Sam_kuyp: Can AI surpass human intelligence? Maybe, but not without a philosophical breakthrough. Together with @EricMarcus_ and Max V…

[xlr8harder @xlr8harder]

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.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

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.

[Eric Marcus @EricMarcus_]

If we taught children to speak, they’d never learn.

Great criticism against schools by John Holt in his book How Children Learn

[Eric Marcus @EricMarcus_]

@Anthony_Bonato There is a reality out there of abstract truths. All we can do is conjecture about those truths. We invent knowledge about what is out there; in doing so we may always be mistaken.

[Eric Marcus @EricMarcus_]

@keithfrankish Not enough; if he (and Lovelace) had powered through we might’ve all lived as immortal gods now 😎

[Eric Marcus @EricMarcus_]

The EU is killing innovation with endless regulations. When will they finally regulate the one entity that truly needs it—the EU itself?

[Eric Marcus @EricMarcus_]

@StatisticUrban I suspect that how you answer this question is mostly a cultural issue.

[Naval @naval]

The best thing about @elonmusk is that he makes me question if I’m thinking big enough with my life.

[Eric Marcus @EricMarcus_]

@Yoni_Sch @wellingmax Before we throw ai at it, I think we ought to start by specifying precisely the problems climate change yields (eg more intense weather events), and which of those we can already solve with more wealth.

[Sam @Sam_kuyp]

An important paper about AI and Popper by @EricMarcus_.

https://t.co/ijNlrcDvL2

[AI for Oncology Lab @AI4Oncology]

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!

[AI for Oncology Lab @AI4Oncology]

🚨 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 https://t.co/1NTqDbU4FR

[AI for Oncology Lab @AI4Oncology]

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 :)

https://t.co/1vajyLJDlh

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

So far, all of AI safety engineering has only led to making AI less useful. Change my mind.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

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.

[Jonas Teuwen @jonasteuwen]

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. 👉https://t.co/xG1P4L5Vvr 🧵

[Ton Schumacher Lab @Schumacher_lab]

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.

https://t.co/dsLeYJoT7v
🧵👇

[Eric Marcus @EricMarcus_]

@ToKTeacher Do you have ideas about why doomsaying is so popular/ lucrative?