Henry Legg

That’s nothing: Topological qubits have only reached the same point that the Catholic church did 2000 years ago. (Made up stories and claims of miracles).

Supposedly the most for any physicist, although the nominations are kept secret for quite a long period of time.

Fun fact I learnt preparing my condensed matter lectures for this semester:

Arnold Sommerfeld was nominated 84 times for the Nobel prize in physics, but never won.

Interestingly, despite his lifelong Nobel prize disappointment, Sommerfeld never threatened to invade Greenland (as far as I know).

Ignoring the other madness in this: It’s interesting to see how French food is used as a weapon of diplomacy.

What’s the British equivalent of dinner in Paris? Fish and chips with the king?

Oh man these Microsoft Quantum press releases are getting weirder (parody)

I have long thought the hyper focus on the Nobel prize by many “bigshot” scientists is bad for science…

I had never considered that the hyper focus of a US president on the Nobel peace prize could be bad for peace

I am making the supreme sacrifice in the name of solidarity. For as long as Trump is threatening Greenland I will boycott American bread and chocolate.

Data sharing helps avoid “smoking gun” claims of topological milestones Manipulating the topology of electronic bands can realize new states of matter, with possible implications for information technology. A central question is how to tell whether a topological regime ha...

The rarest of sights - a big glossy journal publishing negative replications! Yes, we had to bundle 4 replications into one article AND we had to wait 2 (!!) years in peer review, but here we are:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fair point. The orcs of third age probably mostly drove Skodas.

The parsimonious position is neither that Orcs did or did not drive Ferraris to work as part of Sauron's compensation package to them, but that some orcs may have sometimes driven Ferraris to work.

Thank you for all your private messages to me about Balrog wings.

Unfortunately, in 2025, wingers like @dangaristo.bsky.social still exist and think Balrogs were just glorified penguins.

In this era of fake news we must defend important facts: Balrogs do not have wings.

Now this is classic Usenet beef. We're talking 30-year-aged stuff here. Simpler times. Better times.

Dan there are two universal truths:

1) Balrogs do not have wings.
2) Feanor did nothing wrong.

Yes, the wings are a metaphor for the shadow. Literally following on from a simile “shadow… like two wings”. Why would it have shadow *like*wings if it already had wings?!?

I can’t believe I have to explain similes and metaphors to a journalist.

@dangaristo.bsky.social this is how Balrog wingers imagine Durin's bane.

You think a glorified penguin is going to go toe-to-toe with Gandalf? Come off it.

YouTube video by Nerd of the Rings Why Balrogs Do NOT Have Wings | Tolkien 101

Dan, do not let me question your judgment: If you believe that Balrogs had wings you are very very wrong.

You probably also think that Feanor did something wrong. Feanor did nothing wrong. Period.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXKn...

I was just sent a video of a child in a Balrog halloween costume. Appallingly, the Balrog costume had wings.

**Balrogs do not have wings**

Why are we teaching children incorrect anatomy of mythical creatures? Are you going to also throw a pair of wings on a giraffe?

My day is already ruined.

Let's be very clear: Google’s claims are debatable, Microsoft’s are a work of fiction.

Be sceptical of Google like the bloke down the pub claiming he lives in a mansion.

Be sceptical of Microsoft like the bloke claiming he lives in a castle in the sky powered by topoconductors and fairy dust.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

There are some differences between UK and international BBC.

Still there on their science page, now with a seemingly AI generated picture: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

NO BBC! Don't summon them, don't do it!

The correct decision from the Nobel committee. If they had even muttered the words "quantum computing" the number of start-up founders posting about their quantum crypto coin NFTs would break LinkedIn.

Our Nobel Prize predictions for the next week. #Nobel2025

It has come to the authors' attention that the unit of 'hour' was not defined in the original manuscript. Within the context of our experiment, 'hour' was used to denote 30 days. The authors confirm that all results within the manuscript are valid and entirely consistent with this definition.

Sergey your joke doesn’t work: If they were travelling close to the speed of light then they would have had even less than 22 hours to make the decision (as appears here on Earth).

Please issue an immediate retraction of the joke.

Bit grim seeing the FT treat HSBC’s quantum computing theatre as actual news. Why worry about fake news when the establishment press has already been lobotomised by corporate press releases?

I wish HSBC (my mortgage provider) were as flexible with my interest rate as they are with reality…

Meme about noise from quantum industry vs me.

HSBC demonstrates world’s first-known quantum-enabled algorithmic trading with IBM | HSBC News HSBC announces the world’s first-known empirical evidence of the potential value of quantum computers for solving real-world problems in algorithmic bond trading.

Bullshit

www.hsbc.com/news-and-vie...