Rod Van Meter
@rdvquantum.bsky.social
Quantum Computing systems, Quantum Internet, quantum education.
Caltech, USC, Keio.
West Virginia, LA, Kamakura.
Caltech, USC, Keio.
West Virginia, LA, Kamakura.
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Rod Van Meter
@rdvquantum.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Hi, #quantum researchers and authors! Some friendly, informal, totally non-binding advice from your Editor in Chief at IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE).
#QuantumComputing #QuantumInternet
1/about a hundred
#QuantumComputing #QuantumInternet
1/about a hundred
"Among" is a better preposition than "over", but the video really is impressive and the photo is for the ages.
January 16, 2026 at 10:02 PM
"Among" is a better preposition than "over", but the video really is impressive and the photo is for the ages.
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Perfect for my ongoing series titled "Everyone in the Trump Administration Looks Like a Villain from the Dick Tracy Comic Strip:"
Madison Sheahan is a dead ringer for Shoulders.
www.dicktracymuseum.com/new-page-1
Madison Sheahan is a dead ringer for Shoulders.
www.dicktracymuseum.com/new-page-1
January 16, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Perfect for my ongoing series titled "Everyone in the Trump Administration Looks Like a Villain from the Dick Tracy Comic Strip:"
Madison Sheahan is a dead ringer for Shoulders.
www.dicktracymuseum.com/new-page-1
Madison Sheahan is a dead ringer for Shoulders.
www.dicktracymuseum.com/new-page-1
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🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
www.science.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
If anybody out there is using our Multiharp toolkit for counting photons, a new release is out:
crates.io/crates/tdc_t...
docs.rs/tdc_toolkit/...
github.com/moonshot-nag...
Thanks to Andrew and the rest of the team who do the hard work!
crates.io/crates/tdc_t...
docs.rs/tdc_toolkit/...
github.com/moonshot-nag...
Thanks to Andrew and the rest of the team who do the hard work!
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io
January 16, 2026 at 8:17 AM
If anybody out there is using our Multiharp toolkit for counting photons, a new release is out:
crates.io/crates/tdc_t...
docs.rs/tdc_toolkit/...
github.com/moonshot-nag...
Thanks to Andrew and the rest of the team who do the hard work!
crates.io/crates/tdc_t...
docs.rs/tdc_toolkit/...
github.com/moonshot-nag...
Thanks to Andrew and the rest of the team who do the hard work!
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io
January 16, 2026 at 7:22 AM
If anybody out there is using our Multiharp toolkit for counting photons, a new release is out:
crates.io/crates/tdc_t...
docs.rs/tdc_toolkit/...
github.com/moonshot-nag...
Thanks to Andrew and the rest of the team who do the hard work!
crates.io/crates/tdc_t...
docs.rs/tdc_toolkit/...
github.com/moonshot-nag...
Thanks to Andrew and the rest of the team who do the hard work!
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Here's the link:
January 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Here's the link:
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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The good news to wake up to: we did not invade Greenland or Mexico overnight.
The bad news: more awful stuff from Minneapolis. No known deaths, but at least one shooting and six kids sent to the hospital by an ICE agent throwing a flash bang into a car.
The bad news: more awful stuff from Minneapolis. No known deaths, but at least one shooting and six kids sent to the hospital by an ICE agent throwing a flash bang into a car.
January 15, 2026 at 10:47 AM
The good news to wake up to: we did not invade Greenland or Mexico overnight.
The bad news: more awful stuff from Minneapolis. No known deaths, but at least one shooting and six kids sent to the hospital by an ICE agent throwing a flash bang into a car.
The bad news: more awful stuff from Minneapolis. No known deaths, but at least one shooting and six kids sent to the hospital by an ICE agent throwing a flash bang into a car.
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I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
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Project 2025 is obsessed with China as our biggest international threat and their solution to that problem is to attack US higher education. That’s thinkin’.
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Project 2025 is obsessed with China as our biggest international threat and their solution to that problem is to attack US higher education. That’s thinkin’.
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Meanwhile, universities in the US are gifting Claude subscriptions to undergraduates & pushing faculty to integrate AI into classes...then showcasing it all as a grand perk for everyone.
This is the most bizarre, self-destructive thing I have ever seen from university admin in 27 years as a prof.
This is the most bizarre, self-destructive thing I have ever seen from university admin in 27 years as a prof.
January 15, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Meanwhile, universities in the US are gifting Claude subscriptions to undergraduates & pushing faculty to integrate AI into classes...then showcasing it all as a grand perk for everyone.
This is the most bizarre, self-destructive thing I have ever seen from university admin in 27 years as a prof.
This is the most bizarre, self-destructive thing I have ever seen from university admin in 27 years as a prof.
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For the love of books, please don't put clear sleeves on your books' dust jackets without wiping off the dust and the sticker residue 😩
Wipe the book gently with 70% rubbing alcohol if the cover is glossy, or dust thoroughly if it has a papery finish.
Otherwise you're basically begging for foxing.
Wipe the book gently with 70% rubbing alcohol if the cover is glossy, or dust thoroughly if it has a papery finish.
Otherwise you're basically begging for foxing.
January 13, 2026 at 10:59 PM
For the love of books, please don't put clear sleeves on your books' dust jackets without wiping off the dust and the sticker residue 😩
Wipe the book gently with 70% rubbing alcohol if the cover is glossy, or dust thoroughly if it has a papery finish.
Otherwise you're basically begging for foxing.
Wipe the book gently with 70% rubbing alcohol if the cover is glossy, or dust thoroughly if it has a papery finish.
Otherwise you're basically begging for foxing.
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What's foxing? It's the spots that look like freckles or moles on paper, usually on the edges of pages, scattered in the first few leaves or on the endpapers... or all over a jacket that wasn't dusted before someone wrapped it in plastic.
It's not harmful, but if you can avoid it....
It's not harmful, but if you can avoid it....
January 13, 2026 at 11:11 PM
What's foxing? It's the spots that look like freckles or moles on paper, usually on the edges of pages, scattered in the first few leaves or on the endpapers... or all over a jacket that wasn't dusted before someone wrapped it in plastic.
It's not harmful, but if you can avoid it....
It's not harmful, but if you can avoid it....
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Catch up on the latest news from ANFF in our December newsletter! mailchi.mp/anff.org.au/...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Catch up on the latest news from ANFF in our December newsletter! mailchi.mp/anff.org.au/...
@anff-sa.com
@anff-sa.com
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
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Q: The premier of Greenland said today, 'We prefer to stay with Denmark.'
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Q: The premier of Greenland said today, 'We prefer to stay with Denmark.'
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
TRUMP: Who said that?
Q: The premier of Greenland
TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.
Hallucinations are such a problem that there are commercial tools out there to evaluate hallucination rate.
I don't know about suicidal ideation or csam but there are various tools and metrics for evaluating hallucination frequency. Here is a hallucination leaderboard on hugging face using one such tool ranking frequency of hallucinations when summarizing a document
huggingface.co/spaces/vecta...
huggingface.co/spaces/vecta...
January 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Hallucinations are such a problem that there are commercial tools out there to evaluate hallucination rate.
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Nepal, like, three months ago
Out of curiosity, when is the last time a government was literally torn apart by an angry mob
January 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Nepal, like, three months ago
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The 🇺🇲 American live-action
television series based on the DC Comics character "BATMAN" starring Adam West and Burt Ward first aired #OnThisDay in 1966 on the ABC Network. It ran for 3 seasons producing 120 episodes ending in 1968
📺 20th Century-Fox Television 🦇
television series based on the DC Comics character "BATMAN" starring Adam West and Burt Ward first aired #OnThisDay in 1966 on the ABC Network. It ran for 3 seasons producing 120 episodes ending in 1968
📺 20th Century-Fox Television 🦇
January 12, 2026 at 11:17 AM
The 🇺🇲 American live-action
television series based on the DC Comics character "BATMAN" starring Adam West and Burt Ward first aired #OnThisDay in 1966 on the ABC Network. It ran for 3 seasons producing 120 episodes ending in 1968
📺 20th Century-Fox Television 🦇
television series based on the DC Comics character "BATMAN" starring Adam West and Burt Ward first aired #OnThisDay in 1966 on the ABC Network. It ran for 3 seasons producing 120 episodes ending in 1968
📺 20th Century-Fox Television 🦇
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Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.
January 12, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.
@richardjobrien.bsky.social @mary-shaw.bsky.social @wendyg.bsky.social @michaelrnelson.bsky.social the gang's all here!
January 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM
@richardjobrien.bsky.social @mary-shaw.bsky.social @wendyg.bsky.social @michaelrnelson.bsky.social the gang's all here!
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11 days into the new year and we've got a new illegal war of plunder with an abducted head of state, full administration backing for executing moms driving near ICE, and the chair of the federal reserve recording proof of life videos to explain the threats he's recieved from the president
January 12, 2026 at 4:11 AM
11 days into the new year and we've got a new illegal war of plunder with an abducted head of state, full administration backing for executing moms driving near ICE, and the chair of the federal reserve recording proof of life videos to explain the threats he's recieved from the president