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
Last Friday, we updated our Q-Fly paper on the arXiv.
#quantumComputing #quantumNetwork
arxiv.org/abs/2412.09299
#quantumComputing #quantumNetwork
arxiv.org/abs/2412.09299
Q-Fly: An Optical Interconnect for Modular Quantum Computers
Much like classical supercomputers, scaling up quantum computers requires an optical interconnect. However, signal attenuation leads to irreversible qubit loss, making quantum interconnect design guid...
arxiv.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Last Friday, we updated our Q-Fly paper on the arXiv.
#quantumComputing #quantumNetwork
arxiv.org/abs/2412.09299
#quantumComputing #quantumNetwork
arxiv.org/abs/2412.09299
There are now numerous images that are quite similar, featuring "Quantum Computing" or a close phrase in a light wireframe 3D font against a dark blue background of floating things.
Eight years ago, we paid an artist to create this. Now, I suspect, genAI is doing the same design for every client.
Eight years ago, we paid an artist to create this. Now, I suspect, genAI is doing the same design for every client.
December 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
There are now numerous images that are quite similar, featuring "Quantum Computing" or a close phrase in a light wireframe 3D font against a dark blue background of floating things.
Eight years ago, we paid an artist to create this. Now, I suspect, genAI is doing the same design for every client.
Eight years ago, we paid an artist to create this. Now, I suspect, genAI is doing the same design for every client.
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And here is the paper the person is so upset about bsky.app/profile/iris...
🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
Below a thread summary 🧵1/n
#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
Below a thread summary 🧵1/n
#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And here is the paper the person is so upset about bsky.app/profile/iris...
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"Nearly 80 years later, the simplex method is still among the most widely used tools when a logistical or supply-chain decision needs to be made under complex constraints."
only half followed the description of the simplex method in here but super interesting anyways
www.wired.com/story/resear...
only half followed the description of the simplex method in here but super interesting anyways
www.wired.com/story/resear...
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.
www.wired.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Nearly 80 years later, the simplex method is still among the most widely used tools when a logistical or supply-chain decision needs to be made under complex constraints."
only half followed the description of the simplex method in here but super interesting anyways
www.wired.com/story/resear...
only half followed the description of the simplex method in here but super interesting anyways
www.wired.com/story/resear...
Jim Beam is a 230 year old company. It survived Prohibition. If Trump puts it out of business, add it to the list of iconic things he has ruined.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Beam
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Beam
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Jim Beam is a 230 year old company. It survived Prohibition. If Trump puts it out of business, add it to the list of iconic things he has ruined.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Beam
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Beam
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whoops, time is broken
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
whoops, time is broken
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Now reading Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People, about her time doing policy for Facebook.
The first part of this was fun in a schadenfreudy way, but I'm on p. 191 and not sure I can take another 201 pages of this.
The first part of this was fun in a schadenfreudy way, but I'm on p. 191 and not sure I can take another 201 pages of this.
December 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Now reading Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People, about her time doing policy for Facebook.
The first part of this was fun in a schadenfreudy way, but I'm on p. 191 and not sure I can take another 201 pages of this.
The first part of this was fun in a schadenfreudy way, but I'm on p. 191 and not sure I can take another 201 pages of this.
Tell me what the best thing is that you did for your *soul* this year. I don't mean in the religious sense, I mean that gives your life meaning, or joy, something *not* work. The best book, play, musical performance, film, hiking trip, whatever it was that brought you some peace and happiness.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Tell me what the best thing is that you did for your *soul* this year. I don't mean in the religious sense, I mean that gives your life meaning, or joy, something *not* work. The best book, play, musical performance, film, hiking trip, whatever it was that brought you some peace and happiness.
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult
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I’d also like to point out that you cannot surround Venezuela with an armada.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I’d also like to point out that you cannot surround Venezuela with an armada.
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A photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials announced. https://cnn.it/4pOMgrO
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials announced. https://cnn.it/4pOMgrO
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The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
AI in academia, with hallucinated articles and journals and data and figures, is starting to remind me of this.
youtu.be/ZXusaBNctC8?...
youtu.be/ZXusaBNctC8?...
Benedict Cumberbatch reads a hilarious letter of apology to a hotel
YouTube video by Letters Live
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
AI in academia, with hallucinated articles and journals and data and figures, is starting to remind me of this.
youtu.be/ZXusaBNctC8?...
youtu.be/ZXusaBNctC8?...
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ok so i just asked a coding LLM to write fiction out of curiosity and the malfunction that causes is absolutely wild and kind of beautiful in a way. here’s some excerpts from when i asked it to write a bildungsroman. i did not tell it to use code in this way.
December 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
ok so i just asked a coding LLM to write fiction out of curiosity and the malfunction that causes is absolutely wild and kind of beautiful in a way. here’s some excerpts from when i asked it to write a bildungsroman. i did not tell it to use code in this way.
Just passed a senior sumo wrestler and his lackey in Shinagawa Station.
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Just passed a senior sumo wrestler and his lackey in Shinagawa Station.
I never did figure out if the trillion yen supplemental budget for semiconductor chips and quantum that Ishiba proposed about a year ago was passed in any form. As far as I can tell, no?
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I never did figure out if the trillion yen supplemental budget for semiconductor chips and quantum that Ishiba proposed about a year ago was passed in any form. As far as I can tell, no?
Just now at Shonandai Station, there were several men with a big mic and amp setup loudly protesting plans to build a mosque in Fujisawa. I stared at the guy with the mic for several seconds, then he turned to me and asked, "What do you think?" I said, "I think it's fine."
December 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Just now at Shonandai Station, there were several men with a big mic and amp setup loudly protesting plans to build a mosque in Fujisawa. I stared at the guy with the mic for several seconds, then he turned to me and asked, "What do you think?" I said, "I think it's fine."
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Happy #QuantumDay to all who celebrate!
Max Planck submitted work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.
His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
Image: AIP
Max Planck submitted work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.
His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
Image: AIP
December 14, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Happy #QuantumDay to all who celebrate!
Max Planck submitted work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.
His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
Image: AIP
Max Planck submitted work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.
His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
Image: AIP
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All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Dreamed about Caltech.
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Dreamed about Caltech.