New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Chirality, magic, and quantum correlations in multipartite quantum states

Shreya Vardhan, Bowen Shi, Isaac H. Kim, Yijian Zou
SciPost Phys. 20, 066 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.3.066

#SU #UIUC #UCD #UCSD #PI
#NSERC #MCU

"wellness" advice guru #DeepakChopra mentioned 4,104 times in the #EpsteinFiles, documenting a close friendship, including exchanges that referenced Chopra, a onetime #UCSD faculty member, closing in on “prey".

In one February 2017 exchange, Chopra invited Epstein to join him in #Israel, offering to help the convicted sex offender travel under an assumed identity and explicitly requested him to "bring your girls," . Epstein asked Deepak to find him a “cute Israeli blonde.” Chopra responds he would, but warned they were “militant aggressive and v=sexy.”

Chopra accepts Epstein's offer to send “two girls” to one of Chopra’s events. In another, Chopra quipped that “only sinners are invited,” to an elite #Vatican event he was attending.

Defending his friendship, Chopra claims that any contact he had with #JeffreyEpstein was “limited and unrelated to abusive activity.”

https://voiceofsandiego.org/2026/02/05/deepak-chopra-new-age-guru-ucsd-prof-and-epstein-confidant/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUXcq-kDkMn/

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/god-construct-cute-girls-real-230728032.html

Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

Opinion

Megan McArdle

The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore

UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math.

November 23, 2025, 5 min

Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into the hallway and poked at the detector with a broom, which paused, as if surprised, then resumed wailing. My husband came out of the kitchen and had a go. His more muscular attention bought us perhaps 30 seconds of relief, but the machine recovered and more aggressively assaulted our ears. Eventually we pulled the cursed thing out of its frame and ripped the batteries out.

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That’s when one of our guests said, “Guys, that’s really a lot of smoke.” It sure was, because as it turned out, our bathroom was on fire (thanks to a candle).

Life is full of these messy signals. Prices are a signal. They tell us how much people want stuff, how much that stuff costs to produce and how much of it we have available. Standardized test scores are signs, telling us whether kids have mastered certain skills. Those warnings are, like my smoke alarm, highly imperfect. (We’ve had many alerts and exactly one fire.) But they contain vital information, and we ignore them at our peril.

Unfortunately, because these signals are messy, we are often tempted to ignore them, especially when the information they contain is bad news, like “your bathroom is on fire,” or “your schools are failing to close persistent racial and income gaps,” or “regulations have made it too hard to build new housing.” Ideally you’d extinguish the fire or fix your failing schools or amend the regulations before the problem worsens. But solving problems is hard, and in politics, it often involves taking on well-organized constituencies that will wave away the smoke and insist that everything is just fine. So institutions often choose to disregard the underlying issues and simply whack the alarm with a hammer until it stops beeping.

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There has been a lot of that going on recently, most notably in education. Instead of rectifying disparities in preparation and achievement, people decided it would be simpler to adjust the measurements. Parents opposed standardized testing, got their kids disability diagnoses that allowed them extra time on tests and lobbied teachers to change bad grades. Exhausted teachers responded with grade inflation, which also helped conceal that low-income and minority kids weren’t doing as well as their richer and White peers. Progressive educators watered down curriculums, gutted gifted and talented programs, and weakened admissions standards for honors classes and magnet schools. Colleges dropped standardized testing requirements, in part because that made it easier to diversify their student body. None of these things happened everywhere, but they happened in many places, and all of them made it harder to see — or rectify — pandemic-era learning loss.

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#educationalDecline #incomingStudents #institutions #mathematics #meganMcardle #messySignals #notReadyForCollege #opinion #pandemicEraLearningLossMath #standardizedTesting #theWashingtonPost #ucSanDiego #ucsd

Modula-2, UCSD P-System, and the birth of Scala

I stumbled across this tidbit from Hacker News.

I never liked that #Borland stuffs. And used to program in #Pascal in #UCSD P-system (my alma mater). When I got to the US Department of Defense they wanted me for my #C and #COBOL skills and then they sent me to an Air Force School where I studied Modula-2 and Ada.

I did a lot of work in Modula-2, which doesn't exist anymore. Modula-3 does, but in the meantime Scala was in the works. #Ada is still actually a thing. We didn't want clever, like those one liner #Perl challenges that folks use to put in their signature lines to demonstrate how clever they thought they were through obfuscation.

Clever is bad. Clever opens up a whole universe of unexpected behavior and potential vulnerabilities. Maybe that's why #Rust became so organically popular - because it's safe by design and nowadays it's included in the Linux kernel more and more.

When you're designing software for missle guidance systems you most certainly do not want clever. The job is simple and ambiguity is potentially catastrophic in warfare.

Anyway, I really enjoyed this interview, I can identify with the #Timex_Sinclair - my dad bought me one and that membrane keyboard was horrendous, but I was persistent and eventually I was writing code in cutting edge languages on mainframes and #Vaxen.

Many of the stories about how one thing or another came about were through frustrations; like the impetus for #Linus the #Linux kernel coz #MINIX just didn't cut it, and who wants to trodge through snow drifts in #Helsinki to the computer lab when you can be warm and cozy, drinking beers in your dorm room?

This story is kinda like that too, which I can really appreciate, even though I've never played with #Scala.

I hope you enjoy it too.

https://www.artima.com/articles/the-origins-of-scala

#tallship #FOSS #Modula_2 #Modula_3

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I said this when #Windows Subsystem for #Linux (WSL) first came out. It is inevitable. It is in fact a Linux world, obvs in the data center but also for end users (where Android is # 1.) Steve Job's greatest move was going #BSD, which too, is just another *nix distro.

The new divide? The only thing clear about that is that it is #AI related. Because I see it in students already.

Where do #LLM or neural nets fit into the OS? One controversy locally at #UCSD is #Trellix.

https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-being-considered-a-linux-distro/

REPORT: #UCSD Freshmen Arriving With 4.0s Can't Round Numbers

https://share.google/csz2YskAOCPA1hdL3

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at the LHC

Gaetano Barone et al.
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 13 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.13

# #SFU #UCSD #CERN #NEU #Fermilab @unituebingen #RWTH #FreiburgUniversity #GAU #UNIMI #INFNMilano
#HORIZONEUROPEMarieSklodowskaCurieActions #NextGenerationEU

CPH Daily Bulletin 10/21/2025

A scholarship for Black #California students has to accept white applicants. Here’s why

https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/10/scholarship-lawsuit-california/

#UCSD #DEI