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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do a PhD, they said.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My boss read the first chapter I turned in, decided I know what I am doing, gave me some basic feedback, and has completely checked out since then lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do a PhD, they said.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am half way done with mine, which means I only have 3/4 left to write, then I will be 90% done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nuggets got smacked in the mouth at home. Tonight they returned the favor in the Twin Cities.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is what I keep saying! The team I like should just play amazing basketball every time and then they won't lose! I am waiting for my offer from the Denver coaching staff to bring this kind of advice.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game Threads] 04 MAY 2024 - PLAYOFFS RD 2 DAY 1⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good lord, it is a slugfest already. Seeing these teams both be under 50 at the half was not something I expected, but this us a gritty, grimy game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I absolutely pinched the style/format from your Suns post, but I thought the recap+outlook style was a really neat element in an elimination post to make it more than just a brag as a nuggets fan.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jamal Murray hits insane game winner vs Lakers to eliminate them from playoffs!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ayo, can I post the 'Eliminated from contention' post for the lakers? Don't wanna step on mods toes if that is a mod privilege.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jamal Murray hits insane game winner vs Lakers to eliminate them from playoffs!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a game winner to win the nuggets first round playoff matchup, which is always a big deal, but there are three things that are particularly impressive here:

  1. Jamal Murray was injured coming into this game, so the fact that he held strong through the game, played great basketball, and hit the game winner is impressive.

  2. The degree of difficulty on that shot was massive. Going left and shooting right requires perfect balance, focus, and contortion to get the shot off properly. Murray used this to catch the Lakers' Austin Reaves off guard and get a clean look, leveraging a difficult shot against an even more difficult to defend attack.

  3. This is the 2nd game winner Jamal Murray has hit this playoff series, both of which were highly difficult shots. Big time shot maker making big time shots.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game Threads] 29 APR 2024 - PLAYOFFS RD 1 DAY 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jamal Murray has ice water in his veins. Good god that man is a big time, big moment shot maker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚨 NBA Bans Jontay Porter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, the Porter family is the worst combination of unlucky, injury prone, and self destructive. MPJ's injuries, Bri and Cierra's injuries, Coban with the DUI/Vehicular Homicide, and now Jontay with a betting scandal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game Threads] 25 MAR 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell of a win for my birthday, love seeing the young guys get good run and watching Jokić feast! Got a vintage nuggets mountain logo hoodie, a throwback Alex English rainbow skyline jersey, and a 23-24 city edition flat-brim to watch the game in full drip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to NGAF⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You smoking chicken dick if you think I'm frying fried fuck

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨puns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neutrello sounds good, but it is actually pretty...

  weak

  Rimshot, crowd moans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨puns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In physics- Like "quart" with a k
  In the Joyce novel- rhymes with park.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨puns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gell-Mann said it sounds like "quart", Joyce rhymed it with Park, it is a silly word and the pronunciation is as fluid as you desire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨puns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Physics is a mixed bag with this stuff. Gell-Mann came up with the name quarks after a line from Finnegan's Wake because Joyce referenced them as coming in three. It was a nonsense word inserted just to rhyme with Mark, Park, etc, so its pronunciation in physics isn't even correct, but it was fun and physicists were just having a good time with it.

  Three quarks for Muster Mark!
  Sure he has not got much of a bark
  And sure any he has it’s all beside the mark.

  Then we got the strange/charm and top/bottom (which was originally the beauty/truth, so bullet dodged there) so the quarks really got all the fun names.

  Neutrinos (my field of study), had so much potential for fun, stupid naming that was squandered. The neutrino was originally proposed with the name "neutron" by Pauli, but then the actual neutron was discovered and observed first, so the name got pinched. To remedy this, the electron neutrino was dubbed "neutrino" or little neutron (they didn't know that other flavors of neutrino existed). Meanwhile, the muon neutrino was originally supposed to be the neutretto (before they realized that the neutral leptons were related by the different particle generations), so we could have had a world where each generation of neutral lepton was just another combination of neutron + diminutive italian suffix.

  1. Neutrino
  2. Neutretto/neutronetto
  3. Neutrello/neutronello

  Then, when the mass eigenstates were confirmed, we could have diversified and gone with big suffixes to indicate that neutrinos have mass.

  1. Neutroni
  2. Neutrachione/neutronachione
  3. Neutrozzo/neutronozzo

  But noooooo, particle physics decided to just give neutrinos the lamest possible names, electron/muon/tau neutrinos for flavor states and m_1/m_2/m_3 neutrino for mass states. I am ashamed of my predecessors for what they've done.

  Don't even get me started on the J/Psi debacle...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its me, weird barbie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As one of the most senior grad students in my dept, holy fuck this hits hard.