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What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?
While GPT-4o’s flirtatiousness was glossed over by a lot of male-authored articles about the release,
Parmy Olson addressed it head-on in a piece for Bloombergheadlined
Making ChatGPT ‘Sexy’ Might Not End Well for Humans.
“What are the social and psychological consequences of regularly speaking to a flirty, fun and ultimately agreeable artificial voice on your phone,
and then encountering a very different dynamic with …

Higher-dimensional grid-imprimitive block-transitive designs
Seyed Hassan Alavi, Carmen Amarra, Ashraf Daneshkhah, Alice Devillers, Cheryl E. Praeger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11241

Higher-dimensional grid-imprimitive block-transitive designs
It was shown in 1989 by Delandtsheer and Doyen that, for a $2$-design with $v$ points and block size $k$, a block-transitive group of automorphisms can be point-imprimitive (that is, leave invariant a nontrivial partition of the point set) only if $v$ is small enough relative to $k$. Recently, exploiting a construction of block-transitive point-imprimitive $2$-designs given by Cameron and the last author, four of the authors studied $2$-designs admitting a block-transitive group that preserves …

Perhaps the most interesting article I've read on Europe's efforts to decarbonise road transport, the controversy over electrification, the proposed alternatives, Chinese manufacturing and a way forward for Europe.
(article in French, screenshots translated with DeepL)
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Fin du véhicule thermique : pourquoi et comment y parvenir ? | Terra Nova
Dans le cadre de la campagne pour les élections européennes 2024, nous avons demandé à différents experts de formuler des recommandations sur plusieurs questions stratégiques pour l’avenir de l’Union européenne. Nous ouvrons cette série avec une contribution de Jean-Philippe Hermine, directeur de l’Institut Mobilités en Transition (IMT), à qui nous avons posé la question de la fin du véhicule thermique. Alors que certains émettent des doutes sur les orientations du Green Deal…

A note on the approximation by a sum of two algebras
Aida Asgarova, Vugar Ismailov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09815 https://arxiv.org…

Der Verkauf der TV-Rechte für die Fußball-Bundesliga ist in der entscheidenden Phase. Die Deutsche Fußball Liga hat den Medien-Unternehmen vor wenigen Tagen die Unterlagen für die Ausschreibung geschickt. Die setzt vor allem die ARD mit ihrer #Sportschau unter Druck, berichtet #Horiziont
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Bundesliga-Rechte: Wie die DFL die ARD bei der "Sportschau" unter Druck setzt
Der Verkauf der TV-Rechte für die Fußball-Bundesliga ist in der entscheidenden Phase. Die Deutsche Fußball Liga hat den Medien-Unternehmen vor wenigen Tagen die Unterlagen für die Ausschreibung geschickt. Und die enthalten ein paar komplizierte und teilweise raffinierte Details, die vor allem die ARD mit ihrer "Sportschau" unter Druck setzt und zugleich den Wert der Free-TV-Zusammenfassung am Samstagnachmittag mindert.

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars: evolution of a masterpiece
I was surprised to learn that Rocket League was actually a sequel to a PS3 game by Psyonix called Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. With such a catchy title, it's hard to see why it never took off to the same extent as Rocket League did. Having said that, apparently it was downloaded on PSN over two million times, so if anything it just goes to show how I don't keep up with…

Verifying the Australian MWA EoR pipeline I: 21-cm sky model and correlated measurement density
J. L. B. Line, C. M. Trott, J. H. Cook, B. Greig, N. Barry, C. H. Jordan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05140

Verifying the Australian MWA EoR pipeline I: 21-cm sky model and correlated measurement density
We present the first of two papers dedicated to verifying the Australian Epoch of Reionisation pipeline (AusEoRPipe) through simulation. The AusEoRPipe aims to disentangle 21-cm radiation emitted by gas surrounding the very first stars from contaminating foreground astrophysical sources, and has been in development for close to a decade. In this paper, we build an accurate 21-cm sky model that can be used by the WODEN simulation software to create visibilities containing a predictable 21-cm sig…

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
“In view of the circumstances surrounding Eastman’s misconduct and balancing the aggravation and mitigation, the court recommends that Eastman be disbarred,” Roland wrote in a 128-page decision.
The judge also recommended that Eastman be ordered to pay $10,000 in monetary sanctions to the State Bar of California Client Security Fund.
Eastman’s legal team said he would appeal Wednesday’s r…

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
A California judge recommended disbarring a lawyer at the center of former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Wednesday.  State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland found John Eastman culpable on 10 of the 11 counts filed by the California State Bar last year. The state bar sought to strip…

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-User RF Charging with Non-linear Energy Harvesters
Amirhossein Azarbahram, Onel L. A. L\'opez, Petar Popovski, Shashi Raj Pandey, Matti Latva-aho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04218

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-User RF Charging with Non-linear Energy Harvesters
Radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology for sustainable support of massive Internet of Things (IoT). However, RF-WPT systems are characterized by low efficiency due to channel attenuation, which can be mitigated by precoders that adjust the transmission directivity. This work considers a multi-antenna RF-WPT system with multiple non-linear energy harvesting (EH) nodes with energy demands changing over discrete time slots. This leads to the charging schedulin…