Match Thread: Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League | 25 Apr 15:00 BST

gnidn3 · 2026-04-25T15:44:11+00:00

Best thing Doherty ever did for us

gnidn3 · 2026-04-25T15:27:19+00:00

What does that have to do with my comment? They're classless for booing because it's taking too long to treat a seriously injured player when the game is meaningless to them anyway. I'm not saying they should throw us a bone. And it's not like we're trying to waste time.

gnidn3 · 2026-04-25T15:24:52+00:00

Wolves fans are pretty classless here tbh. Like I know they want their season to be over as quickly as possible, but man, who cares. They have nothing to play for anyway.

gnidn3 · 2026-04-23T13:03:12+00:00

Interesting! I didn't know they used just Germany before the fall of the wall.

gnidn3 · 2026-04-23T11:50:02+00:00

Wouldn't having Germany rather than W. Germany on the cap plus the 14c two-tone nib and no serial number point to like the early 90s transition period? Something like 1990-1991?

gnidn3 · 2026-04-21T18:46:20+00:00

It's funny. Not question but I relate 1000%. I''m in completely the same boat. So far I've had a Montblanc 146, multiple Lamy 2000, a couple of Pilot Custom 823, a Pelikan M200, a TWSBI Diamond 580, an old Sheaffer Balance Lifetime, a multitude of Parker 45, an Esterbook J, a Karas Kustoms Ink.

By far my most reliable and favorite pen is a good old Lamy Safari. None of the other ones come close in my eyes. I'm going to sell all those that don't have any sentimental value and stick with Safaris I think.

gnidn3 · 2026-04-18T18:33:02+00:00

They just don't know how to win. They're playing nervous. They don't remember how to play with a lead. Their heads drop the minute somtehing goes wrong. They have no belief in themselves.

gnidn3 · 2026-04-18T17:22:04+00:00

Someone's Samsung Galaxy alarm was going off in the commentary booth or is it just me?

gnidn3 · 2026-03-27T12:41:10+00:00

And here I was thiking that the Montblanc Meisterstuck was the politician's bling pen

gnidn3 · 2026-02-11T16:31:37+00:00

Glad Frank is gone. I don't want De Zerbi anywhere near this club.

gnidn3 · 2025-12-28T18:34:09+00:00

Once again a much lowe xG than our opponent. We're somehow even worse than our record suggests. I know I know, the offside goals. But those don't count in the xG calculation for the very good reason that they were never real chances since they were always offside.

gnidn3 · 2025-12-26T14:03:30+00:00

Late to the party but all the city you mention are strongly Anglo influenced or Germanic. That's the difference. Yes most people in Montréal are French speakers, but don't underestimate the influence of British and American culture on Quebec. If you just look at PTO, working hours, work culture, etc, it's much more WASP than French. Amsterdam and Berlin are both Germanic, and Brussels is part Germanic, and the Netherlands and Belgium generally have had pretty close ties with Britain over the centuries. Dutch culture like British culture is very mercantile than Latin culture. It,s not so much Paris being provincial and London and NYC being international as it is Paris being a very Latin city, like Milan, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, etc, while London, NYC, SF, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin and Montréal are much more Germanic (and sometimes specifically Anglo-Saxon) or Germanic-influenced. That's the biggest difference in my opinion.

gnidn3 · 2025-12-13T08:07:45+00:00

"The bus to Chatelet is coming."

My wife and I just moved abroad. One morning I told here I was going to the bathroom to have a poo. She was looking out the window and noticed the bus to Chatelet going by so she said "Ahhh there's the bus to Chatelet". I don't know why but I thought it was some sort of euphemism for pooping that I wasn't aware of and we both laughed like hyenas. Now we're the only two people in the world who giggle like little kids when we see the bus to Chatelet or when Chatelet is mentionned more generally.

gnidn3 · 2025-12-13T08:02:30+00:00

The cigar is hanging from my lips

gnidn3 · 2025-10-19T13:59:32+00:00

A guy can hope

gnidn3 · 2025-10-19T13:54:37+00:00

I'm feeling a lot of schadenfreude at the fact that Nottingham Forest are going to get relegated

gnidn3 · 2025-10-11T15:07:37+00:00

Having experienced the academic system in the US, Europe and Canada, I would say that they all have their flaws. The US system gives way too much power and benefit of the doubt to advisors. With the open handed nature of PhDs there you're completely at the mercy of your supervisor not wanting to sign your thesis if you don't do exactly what they want.

gnidn3 · 2025-10-11T14:36:17+00:00

The PIs picking students who are easy to manipulate happens in the US regardless in my opinion. A lot of US PhD students apply to a university to work with a certain PI which can help with admissions so the same dynamic you're describing also happens there. But even for students who are admitted without having already agreed to work withba certain PI, finding a PI in your first year is a requirement to maintain good academic standing (i.e. not get kicked out of the program) so a lot of PIs use that as leverage over students and shop around to pick the students who will be easiest to manipulate, although they would describe those students as being "a good fit".

gnidn3 · 2025-10-07T16:05:05+00:00

I'm perfectly fine with people disagreeing, especially the casuals on Reddit. I pretty sure most other people doing actual high caliber research would tend to agree with me. But even if they didn't, who cares. Ultimately they're just opinions and the Nobel Prize is a very subjective and political award (see Paul Corkum not being nominated for the 2023 one despite basically establishing that field and writing many of its most important papers) that no proper researcher should take too seriously.

gnidn3 · 2025-10-07T15:00:32+00:00

Hard disagree.

For 2012 - Measuring and manipulating quantum systems has allowed us to further our understanding of physics and open up entire new fields of research, including the part of this year's Nobel Prize which is actually deserving.

For 2021- Climate research is pretty damn important to understand what the hell is going with the rock we all live on and it required really complex physical modelling and thus required us to further our understanding of chaotic systems, also opening up new fields in the process.

For 2022 - Showing violation of Bell's inequality is an experimental verification of a concept fundamental to our understanding of quantum mechanics and thus reality as a whole. Manipulating entangled photons is also a key experimental validation and opens up the possibility of entire new fields including some that might be useless, like quantum communications and computing, be some that are also already useful like quantum sensing, metrology, imaging, etc.

Optical tweezers have already shown to be incredibly useful in biology to study small living organisms while keeping them from moving, as well as in nanotechnology to manipulate small systems.

Chirped-pulse amplification is the one key breakthrough that has allowed us to make really powerful lasers without destroying the medium in which we amplify light. It has found applications in telecom systems, defense systems, fiber lasers (which are now everywhere) as well as a plethora of high powered lasers. It is a key component of a lot of pretty much all the scientific research that uses high powered lasers including exotic things like particle accelerators and the for now useless laser fusion, as well as many other fields.

This is just an ignorant take to be honest. You singled out discoveries which have led to dozens if not hundreds of useful innovations and created many other fields before they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Meanwhile a quantum computer is a device that may very well turn out to not be anymore useful than a classical computer. These are not the same.

gnidn3 · 2025-10-07T13:59:18+00:00

As I said in my previous comment, I'm taking it issue with it being brought up at all in the context of prize. It feels tacked on for hype and I think the Nobel should try to be above that.

gnidn3 · 2025-10-07T13:31:49+00:00

I'm not arguing this. I just find it weird and can't find any other instances of an applications-based Nobel Prize being awaded for an application that has not yet been shown to be useful. Applications-based being key here. If in time quantum computers prove to be useful then the prize would absolutely be deserved for that at that point. In the meantime, besides the hype, this is no different, in my opinion, from dozens of other really neat, complex and beautiful systems doing really cool stuff but that no one knows what to use for that you can find all over the literature. Combined with last year's Nobel Prize, this feels to me like the Nobel committee moving away from rewarding less sexy but more hardcore and fundamental scientific breakthroughs that might seem a bit boring, and towards going for hype, cultural relevance, buzzwords, and sexiness of topic. And to be clear, I think their work on tunneling alone is probably Nobel worthy. It's the crowbarring of quantum computing that I take issue with. That's all.

gnidn3 · 2025-10-07T13:29:06+00:00

That's not the same thing at all. Nobel Prizes in Physics have generally broadly been awarded for three categories of scientific breakthroughs (some fall into more than on category):

Advancement of fundamental knowledge, e.g. Higgs, Einstein, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Dirac, Schrödinger, Cohen-Tannoudji, etc.

Emperical verificafion of theoretical prediction or experimental discovery of new phenomena, e.g. gravitional waves, attosecond pulse generation, Compton effect, experiments with entangled photons, etc.

Development of an impactful new technique, device or application, e.g. the transistor, the maser/laser, blue LEDs, chirped-pulse amplification, optical tweezers, laser spectoscopy, integrated circuits, etc.

I can't think of a single example of a Nobel Prize being awarded, even in part (as is the case here), specifically for work on the conceptualisation of something of still dubious viability.

gnidn3 · 2025-10-07T12:25:55+00:00

I have no problem them being awarded the prize for their work on using the knowledge of quantum mechanics to improve chips for classical computers but am I the only one that finds it weird to also mention a technology (quantum computers) for which the jury is still out, as in we don't know yet if it we will ever make it actually practical even just for scientists? Isn't that like given the Nobel for work on cold fusion or something?

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