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Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D.

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Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D.

@scekker

Entrepreneur scientist. Zebrafish r cool. Health innovation UTAustin&Dell Med&Tx Health Catalyst. LEAH Labs, LifEngine, UViiVE. Illini, now Longhorn. Posts=mine

Austin, TX

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Joined June 2010

Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D.
@scekker
Jul 23
This was the last golden age - we are entering our own now.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Jul 23
Einstein, Curie, Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger… how many Nobel Prize laureates can you spot? Some of the world’s most notable physicists participated in the 1927 Solvay Conference. In fact, 17 of the 29 scientists attending were or became #NobelPrize laureates.
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D.
@scekker
Jul 20
The Qwen models are great for science too. They at least copied from the best!
Mark Kretschmann
@mark_k
Jul 20
Looks like @AnthropicAI may have done a little distillation for Opus 4.8... from Qwen, no less. Asked Claude who it was, it introduced itself as Qwen. Pretty embarrassing for a company that has spent so much time throwing stones at others over model training. People who live in
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D.
@scekker
Jul 19
This is going to be true for non-coding issues like a biological agent attack. These 'safety rails' are already blocking life science innovation UNLESS you sign up for either Frontier Model 'science' packages where you give your LLM data to them too. This asymmetry is designed to
Brian Roemmele
@BrianRoemmele
Jul 19
🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure we are powerless in an emergency. What happened… An autonomous AI agent: zero human operator in the loop breached part of their production infrastructure.
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D.
@scekker
Jun 28
Classic innovators dilemma. Lots of great work coming out from AI agentic scientists. And cancer neoantigen research will be transformed by AI. Just not in her lab where she doesn't need AI to keep busy.
Ihtesham Ali
@ihteshamali
Jun 25
Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for gene editing and went on Bloomberg to say the chatbots everyone is betting on cannot innovate at all. Every promise Silicon Valley is making about AI curing disease just hit the one person qualified to check it. She has spent her whole
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Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D.
@scekker
Jun 27
This is a striking graph! Coding is just the first to be 'eaten' in the AI world.
Gabriel Jarrosson
@GJarrosson
Jun 27
At Stanford, CS enrollment is down 42% year over year…. Kids are now studying physics, math, biology instead. For the last 20 years, the bottleneck to building a software company was implementation. If you couldn't code, you needed to find a technical co-founder, raise money to

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