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I wanted to test #copilot's Icelandic capabilities, and it went completely bananas🍌
#ai #Iceland

Timely Status Updates in Slotted ALOHA Network With Energy Harvesting
Khac-Hoang Ngo, Giuseppe Durisi, Andrea Munari, Francisco L\'azaro, Alexandre Graell i Amat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18990

Timely Status Updates in Slotted ALOHA Network With Energy Harvesting
We investigate the age of information (AoI) in a scenario where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a gateway following the slotted ALOHA protocol and receive no feedback. We let the devices adjust the transmission probabilities based on their current battery level. Using a Markovian analysis, we derive analytically the average AoI. We further provide an approximate analysis for accurate and easy-to-compute approximations of both the average AoI and the age-violation probability (A…

The sickest I've ever been as an adult was my junior year of college, where I got some "flu-like illness." I was so sick that I had to miss a test for a comp sci class I was in at the time with a doctor's note. The professor let me do a make-up test and told me he hoped I was feeling better. I think about that all the time.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12612 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On Non-Cooperative Perfect Information Semi-Markov Games
We show that an N-person non-cooperative semi-Markov game under limiting ratio average pay-off has a pure semi-stationary Nash equilibrium. In an earlier paper, the zero-sum two person case has been dealt with. The proof follows by reducing such perfect information games to an associated semi-Markov decision process (SMDP) and then using existence results from the theory of SMDP. Exploiting this reduction procedure, one gets simple proofs of the following: (a) zero-sum two person perfect inform…

A high rise block in Valencia, Spain, in flames.
Same cladding as #Grenfell.
Casualties (so far): 14 injured, 6 of them from fire service.
Qué sabemos del incendio que ha arrasado dos edificios en València

Qué sabemos del incendio que ha arrasado dos edificios de 14 plantas con 13 personas heridas
El incendio que afecta a un edificio en València desde esta tarde de jueves ha requerido un gran despliegue de medios. Pero ¿qué sabemos de lo que está sucediendo? El edificio. Se trata de un edificio de 14 plantas y 138 viviendas que se ubica entre las vías Maestro Rodrigo y Rafael Alberti del barrio de Campanar en València. Origen. Según fuentes oficiales, el aviso del incendio se ha producido a las 17:35 horas y su origen inicialmente se ha señalado en una cuarta planta. Algunos víd…

Russian military blogger, who wrote about large Russian army losses in Aviivka, commits suicide amid harassment by Kremlin propagandists: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/21/russian-military-blogger.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03530 has been replaced.
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A geometric model for blocks of Frobenius kernels
Building on a geometric counterpart of Steinberg's tensor product formula for simple representations of a connected reductive algebraic group $G$ over a field of positive characteristic, and following an idea of Arkhipov--Bezrukavnikov--Braverman--Gaitsgory--Mirković, we define and initiate the study of some categories of perverse sheaves on the affine Grassmannian of the Langlands dual group to $G$ that should provide geometric models for blocks of representations of the Frobenius kernel $G_1…

Oh dear a psychological study where climate action = planting trees.
Not surprising for a discipline founded on methodological individualism.
How to talk about climate change and the problem with doomerism - resilience
https://www.resilien…

How to talk about climate change and the problem with doomerism
Should we be yelling that the sky is falling at every chance? Or might that paralyze us into inaction, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?

On Labour's self-imposed straightjacket.
#28Bn
"Rachel Reeves has already adopted the falling debt to GDP rule, just as John McDonnell did. This rule and this alone is the reason Labour are in such a mess over its sensible £28 billion pledge to green the economy. In a rational world it would be obvious to ditch the bad fiscal rule to enable desperately needed green investment."…

One Rule to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
  What a future Labour government will be able to do in terms of repairing both our broken public services, our broken economy, and getting ...

On Labour's self-imposed straightjacket.
#28Bn
"Rachel Reeves has already adopted the falling debt to GDP rule, just as John McDonnell did. This rule and this alone is the reason Labour are in such a mess over its sensible £28 billion pledge to green the economy. In a rational world it would be obvious to ditch the bad fiscal rule to enable desperately needed green investment."…

One Rule to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
  What a future Labour government will be able to do in terms of repairing both our broken public services, our broken economy, and getting ...