@thomholwerda

AI has broken brains, students getting "F" have 👉 more than tripled to more than a third of the computing class.

Not only does "guaranteed to be broken" AI ruin software, just having it in the room destroys coders.

"Failing CS Grades Soar At UC Berkeley As Professors See Greater AI Usage"

https://m.slashdot.org/story/455368

#ai #ucb #university #berkley

Slashdot

UCB’s $1.15B Neurona Therapeutics acquisition is a high-stakes bet on cell therapy in epilepsy. The bigger question: can biotech move from suppressing seizures to repairing brain circuits?

https://biotech.industryexaminer.com/ucb-neurona-epilepsy-cell-therapy-bet/
#Biotech #UCB #NeuronaTherapeutics #Epilepsy #CellTherapy #TechNews

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Reviews

Quantum measurements in fundamental physics: A user’s manual

Jacob Beckey, Daniel Carney, Giacomo Marocco
SciPost Phys. Rev. 2 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysRev.2

#JILA #LBNL #UCB

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Excitation-detector principle and the algebraic theory of planon-only Abelian fracton orders

Evan Wickenden, Wilbur Shirley, Agnès Beaudry, Michael Hermele
SciPost Phys. 20, 106 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.4.106

#UCB #IAS #UC

News roundup, 2 April 2026

- Donald Trump claims that the US has just about finished the job in Iran. Nobody with any sense believes him, of course. - UCP MLA Jason S...

American posters for “Wet Hot American Summer” (2001)
#Comedon #WetHotAmericanSummer #WHAS #TheState #Stella #UCB

Asking again if someone happens to have contacts inside Harvard University or Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory who feel responsible for open source software licensing. Please get in touch. :)

Note: Please do not copy and paste the contacts for their legal departments, etc. #harvard #ucb #berkeley

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Sequential adiabatic generation of chiral topological states

Xie Chen, Michael Hermele, David T. Stephen
SciPost Phys. 19, 107 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.4.107

#CalTech #UCB