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Judge sanctions attorney who filed a utility patent lawsuit without any pre-filing analysis of the merits of the infringement claims.
The attorney said "he could look at the patents and just know they were infringed."
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(That is not how this works. That is not how any of this works.)

Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

Speaking of utilities overestimating load growth, @… @… :

Microsoft says Georgia may be overestimating data center load growth
In a filing to the state’s Public Service Commission, the tech giant points out issues, gaps in Georgia Power’s integrated resource plan.

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04718 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Adaptive Smooth Control via Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode for Distributed Space Telescope Demonstration Mission by CubeSat Formation Flying
This paper investigates the efficiency of nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode and adaptive smooth control method for the distributed space telescope demonstration mission. The distributed space telescope has a flexible focal length that corresponds to the relative position of the formation flying concept. The precise formation flying technology by CubeSats enhances the utility of distributed space systems with low costs. The propulsion systems for CubeSats usually have restricted degrees of …

"The NPRM would also hike design patent filing and issuance fees. The USPTO notes that no maintenance fees are owed on design patents and that the USPTO has been subsidizing design patent examination with revenue from the utility patent side." - @… #DesignPatents

Fast and simple inner-loop algorithms of static / dynamic BLP estimations
Takeshi Fukasawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04494 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.04494
arXiv:2404.04494v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study investigates computationally efficient inner-loop algorithms for estimating static / dynamic BLP models. It provides the following ideas to reduce the number of inner-loop iterations: (1). Add a term concerning the outside option share in the BLP contraction mapping; (2). Analytically represent mean product utilities as a function of value functions and solve for the value functions (for dynamic BLP); (3-1). Combine the spectral / SQUAREM algorithms; (3-2). Choice of the step sizes. These methods are independent and easy to implement. This study shows good performance of these ideas by numerical experiments.

A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Study of Evolution of Communication and Teaching under Libertarian and Utilitarian Governing Systems
Aslan S. Dizaji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02369

A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Study of Evolution of Communication and Teaching under Libertarian and Utilitarian Governing Systems
Laboratory experiments have shown that communication plays an important role in solving social dilemmas. Here, by extending the AI-Economist, a mixed motive multi-agent reinforcement learning environment, I intend to find an answer to the following descriptive question: which governing system does facilitate the emergence and evolution of communication and teaching among agents? To answer this question, the AI-Economist is extended by a voting mechanism to simulate three different governing sys…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12570 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Creativity Support in the Age of Large Language Models: An Empirical Study Involving Emerging Writers
The development of large language models (LLMs) capable of following instructions and engaging in conversational interactions sparked increased interest in their utilization across various support tools. We investigate the utility of modern LLMs in assisting professional writers via an empirical user study (n=30). The design of our collaborative writing interface is grounded in the cognitive process model of writing that views writing as a goal-oriented thinking process encompassing non-linear …

Fast and simple inner-loop algorithms of static / dynamic BLP estimations
Takeshi Fukasawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04494 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.04494
arXiv:2404.04494v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study investigates computationally efficient inner-loop algorithms for estimating static / dynamic BLP models. It provides the following ideas to reduce the number of inner-loop iterations: (1). Add a term concerning the outside option share in the BLP contraction mapping; (2). Analytically represent mean product utilities as a function of value functions and solve for the value functions (for dynamic BLP); (3-1). Combine the spectral / SQUAREM algorithms; (3-2). Choice of the step sizes. These methods are independent and easy to implement. This study shows good performance of these ideas by numerical experiments.