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@yottajunaid @github @pangramlabs you know what to do

@github if this is GitHub's own internal code—not just user repos—a buyer gets access to their auth stack, deployment secrets, and CI/CD pipelines. One backdoor planted there turns every GitHub repo into a trojan delivery system. Platform-wide supply chain apocalypse.

We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.

@saltwatersoph unfortunately i agree with you about the lack of asian food. at least right next to campus.

@backslashvarphi 1) I don’t like Santa Barbara there isn’t enough Asian food 2) No I went to Catholic high school

Found out 3/5 of my friend group got into CCS math at ucsb and we all chose to go here.. friends in every lifetime indeed

@upavarsh no textbook for this class 😔

@backslashvarphi What book are you using?

"phase transitions for hamiltonians with symmetry are 2nd order and phase transitions for hamiltonians without symmetry are 1st order" "can you explain why this is true?" "i just did - phase transitions for hamiltonians with symmetry are 2nd order and phase transitions for hamiltonians without symmetry are 1st order" "our hw had us show that a cubic lattice with Z3 symmetry has a 1st order phase transition" "oh yeah, that's the only exception i know of" i'm going to DIE

yeah, i was talking about discrete symmetries. thanks for bringing up the potts model, that’s interesting. we’re only talking about 1st and 2nd order in the context of this class so it makes sense why he didn’t make a comment about BKT. we just started learning landau theory. it’s really hard for me to think about how symmetries affect classical phase transitions - the quantum case is much easier (and the profs comment about symmetric hamiltonians having 2nd order phase transitions was in the context of quantum mechanics). honestly idrk what’s going on at this point. i’ll bring up the q>4 square lattice potts model in office hours and see what he says.

@backslashvarphi Are you talking about discrete symmetries? Potts models for q > 4 on the square lattice are first order. Discrete models can also have infinite order BKT transitions

@garvvee honestly i’m just intimidated by math people. you guys scare me

@garvvee if it were up to me your dept would be defunded so my PI can buy like 3 more dil fridges… but i’m with you that we shouldn’t build another particle accelerator

i guess it could be worse. if i got a physics phd maybe i would have a negative billion dollar net worth.

they call it a dirtyroom now

NIGHTMARE CLEANROOM SCENARIO

@mil000 hey free trip don’t hate

If Alex Wang was 16, would he be attending this event or would he be at home working his ass off? These events are such a waste

@supr3me_lead3r it's banger after banger with you

is there a wasian vs asian wage gap in the cursor Instagram ads? How much do they pay them?

@supr3me_lead3r not only that but also his deeply thoughtful take is ‘taste is complicated bc none of the rich kids went thrifting like me’. what a true philosopher

I'm only a few seconds in, but I will not hear about taste from someone who posts on tiktok and wears airpods max. Tiktok is FOR the tasteless, it is a platform for people who need to be told they like slop then have it shoved down their throats. Seriously have you opened tiktok?

wet claude is dead. all of his moisture has been SUCKED DRY

what a joke. anthropic is losing the ball man. 1st time i ran ultrareview was an hr ago where it chugged for 20 mins then crashed ("API Error: Server is temporarily limiting requests (not your usage limit)") and then ts doesn't even do anything. gpt5.5 (agi btw) would never.

look im sorry but it cannot possibly be true that ultrareview found literally nothing in a 5000 line ai slop diff.

@Kaju_Nut yk what i dig the new design

RIP 😢

@SinghJyotirmai @GoogleQuantumAI THE GOAT MICHEL

Nice little slide from @GoogleQuantumAI’s chief scientist Michel Devoret’s talk today about what you can do with superconducting qubits, aka “artificial atoms” NMR at the single nucleus level is wild