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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think this list of seventeen fields to strengthen is the same as released a few months ago, I don't see any changes. Semiconductors and AI still too of the list, and quantum is on it.

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Third dinner, cheap Chinese in Chinatown -- a nearly perfect meal.

People at a round table covered in Cantonese food

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Second dinner, 351 meters above ground level

People at a table with skyline on the background

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now in Toronto for #QCE2026! First meal: enormous piles of American Southern style barbecue (menu says "Southern style", but isn't more specific than that. Thick, sweet, tomato-based sauce.) Menu says this is enough for 4-7 people, but I would say 6-10.

Enormous piles of barbecued meat and sides

Another enormous pile of barbecued meat, this one featuring chicken and Mac n cheese

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

rdv, Prof. Tata Dirgantara, rector of ITB, Prof. Kohei Itoh, president of Keio, and Prof. Chewang Rinzin, rector of Royal University of Bhutan

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

www.google.com/gasearch?hl=...

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Some shots of the NHK reporting on TV. We are going to be very lucky if there are no fatalities, but sadly I don't think we are that lucky.

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Prompt: Explain how to find and visualize the radial and angular nodes in hydrogen orbitals. Response:

Text:

1. Radial Nodes (The "Onion Layers")Radial nodes occur at specific distances from the nucleus. If you were to slice an orbital open, a radial node would look like an empty, spherical shell—much like the empty space between the layers of an onion.Because the formula for radial nodes is $n - l - 1$, orbitals with low $l$ values (like $s$ orbitals where $l=0$) have the most radial nodes for their energy level.

Figures:
1s: blue fuzzball
2s: blue-white-red fuzzball (hmm...)
3s: blue-white-red-white-red fuzzball???
white segments are labeled "Nodes"

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Morning twilight on the Chao Phraya, Bangkok

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If I'm ever invited on NHK, remind me to bring a hairdresser. They let this former ambassador go on the air like this.

Old guy with hair sticking out in all directions on NHK's Sunday morning news show

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

M5.5, with up to shindo 5- around the Saitama-Nagano-Gunma border. I'd call it a good shindo 3 here at the house in Kamakura.

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Goshojinja Matauri in Kamakura. Tomorrow they will match three of the portable shrines into the ocean.

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Found a lunch spot! Ordered the corned beef hash, we'll see how it is.

Coca Cola sign in a diner with red check tablecloths.

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

researchmap.jp is making me click through a bunch of AI-generated entries it found for my c.v. Here is one of them. Everything except the title seems right, and this is an important paper in our history, so not sure whether to accept it or not (it is apparently not editable).