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"Third pilot of household hydrogen heating shelved by UK government"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Hydrogen

"Third pilot of household hydrogen heating shelved by UK government"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Hydrogen

I can't believe we're sitting in yet another meeting about the great highway *pilot* program. The pilot program already went to appeal a month or so ago, the appeal to reopen the highway full-time was denied, and now we have an appeal to that appeal. The amount of time San Francisco spends re-litigating every single issue is embarrassing.

Auto parts maker Magna will pilot Sanctuary AI's humanoid robot in its factory; Figure and Apptronik are piloting their humanoid systems with BMW and Mercedes (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/europ…

European car manufacturer will pilot Sanctuary AI's humanoid robot | TechCrunch
Sanctuary AI announced that it will be delivering its humanoid robot to a Magna manufacturing facility. Based in Canada, with auto manufacturing

Ukrainian fighter jet pilot reportedly killed in action in Donetsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/10/ukrainian-fighter-jet.html

»Der Pilot auf meinem Flug gestern muss wahnsinnig gewesen sein. Durch seinen Flugstil war fast allen Passagieren schlecht.«
»Das ist ja grauenhaft. Welche Fluggesellschaft war das denn?«
»Air Brochen.«

A lot happened in the infosec world over the weekend, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Europol expert platform breached, IntelBroker claims theft of classified data
-- Half of Christie's annual revenue jeopardized by 'technology security issue,'
--Former US Marine pilot wanted by US 'unknowingly' worked with Chinese hacker,
--Lazarus group stole massive amount from S. Korean court computer network,
--British Columbia cyberattack likely state-sponsored,
--Embargo group leaks 500GB of Firstmac data,
--Dell hacker claims he brute-forced portal to scrape data,
--Feds warn of Black Basta activity following Ascension hack,
--Hacker returns $68m in stolen crypto,
--Alleged Russian hacker attacks UK news sites,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/europol-expert-platform-breached-intelbroker-claims-theft-classified-data

“I was in the military and Boeing planes saved my tail many times in combat,” Tajer said. “The enemy was outside the airplane. Now it feels like the enemy is within.”
#Boeing

"Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets."
Entire business models based on the idea that someone else's labor needs to be free. 🤔
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128363/google-cjpa-ne…

Kurt Russell was the civil pilot witness to the phoenix lights UFO ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR_dxZJGWfU

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new online training course, Introduction to Research Integrity, and are giving subscribers free 12-month access as part of its pilot phase.
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At least half the “important announcements” were instructions from the pilot to the crew, which should not stop the world for the passengers.

ARxVision, Seeing AI, NaviLens team up for pilot headset program https://www.optometrytimes.com/view/arxvision-seeing-ai-navilens-team-up-for-pilot-headset-program

ARxVision, Seeing AI, NaviLens team up for pilot headset program
The ARx Gen 1.5 wearable headset will be integrating the 2 apps in part of a pilot program providing a hands-free visual assistant service.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Joan Armatrading:
🎵 Drop The Pilot
#JoanArmatrading
https://open.spotify.com/track/72YATNrv9D0QIVgOURyTFg

"The communities secretary wants ‘trailblazer’ government departments to pilot a scheme to ban individuals and groups deemed extremist from public life"
Good. Can we start with #Conservatives?
Revealed: legal fears over Michael Gove’s new definition of ‘extremism’ | Politics | The Guardian

Amimir dl cuy
#BatikAir #Aviation

Batik Air: Pilot dan kopilot tertidur selama 28 menit ketika menerbangkan pesawat, Kemenhub beri 'teguran keras' – Apa itu pilot fatigue dan bagaimana mencegahnya? - BBC News Indonesia
Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi (KNKT) merekomendasikan pentingnya “panduan dan prosedur terperinci” untuk mengidentifikasi kelelahan awak pesawat, menyusul insiden “serius” melibatkan dua pilot maskapai Batik Air yang tertidur secara bersamaan saat menerbangkan pesawat dengan rute penerbangan Kendari-Jakarta.

#GPT Pilot – what we learned in 6 months of working on a #CodeGen pair programmer
http…

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Gibt einen YouTube Kanal mit Cockpitaufnahmen von Starts und Landungen von Linienflügen.
Pilot ist Frau: Es wird gelobt wie toll es sei, dass sie als Frau … wie schön konzentriert … so viel Verantwortung! So eine couragierte junge Frau! Das sei eine Super Landung gewesen, sehr gut gemacht. "She is so focused on her job", "So calm and confident!" "No Drama!"
Pilot Mann: Tolles Flugzeug, Ah, ein Airbus A3XY, sieh mal, Siedesticksteuerung … ist das die…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04643 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the Performance of the Neyman Allocation with Small Pilots
The Neyman Allocation is used in many papers on experimental design, which typically assume that researchers have access to large pilot studies. This may be unrealistic. To understand the properties of the Neyman Allocation with small pilots, we study its behavior in an asymptotic framework that takes pilot size to be fixed even as the size of the main wave tends to infinity. Our analysis shows that the Neyman Allocation can lead to estimates of the ATE with higher asymptotic variance than with…

Folxlore 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😱
Narrated horror | FOLXLORE tells the stories of queer people living literally and figuratively between two worlds. This pilot series deals with themes of first romance, hate crime related trauma, and queer parenthood. FOLXLORE is rooted in everyday Glasgow, where monsters are always on the edge o...
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Folxlore 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😱
Narrated horror | FOLXLORE tells the stories of queer people living literally and figuratively between two worlds. This pilot series deals with themes of first romance, hate crime related trauma, and queer parenthood. FOLXLORE is rooted in everyday Glasgow, where monsters are always on the edge of your periphery. Queer stories 3 seasons, 29 episodes as of Apr 30, 2023.

Tesla Under Another Federal Investigation for Fraud Related to Self-Driving Claims
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-elon-musk-investigation-auto-pilot-self-driving-1851463395

Feds Reportedly Investigating Tesla for Fraud Related to Self-Driving Claims
Elon Musk continues to rack up investigations by government agencies.

Ok, is this United getting sloppy or is it time for a #ConspiracyTheory?
Pilot says brakes seemed less effective than usual before a United Airlines jet slid off a taxiway | Financial Post

Pilot says brakes seemed less effective than usual before a United Airlines jet slid off a taxiway
HOUSTON (AP) — The captain of a United Airlines jet said the brakes seemed less effective than normal and the plane and brake pedals shook violently just…

Optimal Transmitter Design and Pilot Spacing in MIMO Non-Stationary Aging Channels
Sajad Daei, Gabor Fodor, Mikael Skoglund
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07895

Pleasantly surprised at this:

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04435 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Pilot Spoofing Attack on the Downlink of Cell-Free Massive MIMO: From the Perspective of Adversaries
The channel hardening effect is less pronounced in the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system compared to its cellular counterpart, making it necessary to estimate the downlink effective channel gains to ensure decent performance. However, the downlink training inadvertently creates an opportunity for adversarial nodes to launch pilot spoofing attacks (PSAs). First, we demonstrate that adversarial distributed access points (APs) can severely degrade the achievable downl…

Incredible example of lying with graphs from Caltrans. The bike lane pilot on the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge reduced collisions, but they made it look like collisions increased.
Specifically, they divided collisions by vehicle miles traveled. But California's goal is to reduce vehicle miles traveled. So they took two good things achieved by the pilot, and made them cancel out to look like a bad thing. #BikeTooter

The IRS launches Direct File, a free online tool to let some taxpayers in 12 US states file their federal income taxes; the IRS says 19M people may be eligible (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-taxes-98dbc44cc7649729910…

The IRS launched a free online tax filing system. Find out here if it’s available in your state
After weeks of testing, an electronic system for filing returns directly to the IRS is now available for taxpayers from 12 selected states. Direct File is a free online tool. Taxpayers in the 12 states who have very simple W-2s and claim a standard deduction may be eligible to use it this tax season. The Direct File pilot is part of the agency’s effort to build out a new government service that could replace some taxpayers’ use of commercial tax preparation software, such as TurboTax.

We are delighted to announce that UKRIO is giving subscribers free 12-month access to our new online training course, Introduction to Research Integrity, as part of its pilot phase.
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EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
"EU Voice and EU Video will be officially closed on 18 May 2024"
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publicati

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

Legendary pilot, educator and adventurer
Dick Rutan died Friday.
He was 85.
Rutan, best known for the record-setting non-stop unrefueled circumnavigation he and Jeana Yeager accomplished in 1986,
was surrounded by family when he died in Kootenai Hospital in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho in the early evening from complications resulting from a year-long bout with Long COVID according to family friends

Dick Rutan Dies At 85 - AVweb
Legendary pilot, educator and adventurer Dick Rutan died Friday according to a press release issued on behalf of the family. (full text follows). He was 85. Rutan, best known for the record-setting non-stop unrefueled circumnavigation he and Jeana Yeager accomplished in 1986, was surrounded by family when he died in Kootenai Hospital in Coeur d’ […]

EU-Pilot
#Medien #Politik

Hmm, who could that be then Govey? Tory chums?
“overturn, exploit or undermine the UK’s system of liberal democracy to confer advantages or disadvantages on specific groups”
Revealed: legal fears over Michael Gove’s new definition of ‘extremism’ | Politics | The Guardian

Sorge um Ferrari-Pilot - Krankenhaus! Sainz verpasst GP von Saudi-Arabien #News #Nachrichten

Tesla Under Another Federal Investigation for Fraud Related to Self-Driving Claims
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-elon-musk-investigation-auto-pilot-self-driving-1851463395

Feds Reportedly Investigating Tesla for Fraud Related to Self-Driving Claims
Elon Musk continues to rack up investigations by government agencies.

Jill, Barnett, and Mitch
#ShawnWeatherly #GregBarnett #DavidHasselhoff
Pilot Episode "Panic at Malibu Pier"

The IRS launches Direct File, a free online tool to let some taxpayers in 12 US states file their federal income taxes; the IRS says 19M people may be eligible (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-taxes-98dbc44cc7649729910…

The IRS launched a free online tax filing system. Find out here if it’s available in your state
After weeks of testing, an electronic system for filing returns directly to the IRS is now available for taxpayers from 12 selected states. Direct File is a free online tool. Taxpayers in the 12 states who have very simple W-2s and claim a standard deduction may be eligible to use it this tax season. The Direct File pilot is part of the agency’s effort to build out a new government service that could replace some taxpayers’ use of commercial tax preparation software, such as TurboTax.

Electromagnetic Property Sensing in ISAC with Multiple Base Stations: Algorithm, Pilot Design,and Performance Analysis
Yuhua Jiang, Feifei Gao, Shi Jin, Tiejun Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06364

Pakketjes vervoeren met gewone trein: eerste pilot mogelijk tussen Rotterdam en Amsterdam | #ADnl
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/pakketjes-ver<…

Virtual Co-Pilot: Multimodal Large Language Model-enabled Quick-access Procedures for Single Pilot Operations
Fan Li, Shanshan Feng, Yuqi Yan, Ching-Hung Lee, Yew Soon Ong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16645

Virtual Co-Pilot: Multimodal Large Language Model-enabled Quick-access Procedures for Single Pilot Operations
Advancements in technology, pilot shortages, and cost pressures are driving a trend towards single-pilot and even remote operations in aviation. Considering the extensive workload and huge risks associated with single-pilot operations, the development of a Virtual Co-Pilot (V-CoP) is expected to be a potential way to ensure aviation safety. This study proposes a V-CoP concept and explores how humans and virtual assistants can effectively collaborate. A preliminary case study is conducted to exp…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
PILOT FOUR-ZERO: Right. I owe you my life.
SERVALAN: Just be sure and get home safely.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/307/58 📺 B7B8

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00775 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Adaptive Control for Triadic Human-Robot-FES Collaboration in Gait Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study
The hybridisation of robot-assisted gait training and functional electrical stimulation (FES) can provide numerous physiological benefits to neurological patients. However, the design of an effective hybrid controller poses significant challenges. In this over-actuated system, it is extremely difficult to find the right balance between robotic assistance and FES that will provide personalised assistance, prevent muscle fatigue and encourage the patient's active participation in order to acceler…

Media: Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine found dead in Spain: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/media-russian-pilot.html

Following a successful pilot project, the northern #German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from #MicrosoftWindows and #MicrosoftOffice to …

Started watching Helluva Boss finally (only the pilot and episode 1 so no spoilers pls) and wow.
Okay first of all it's off the charts insane and I love it.
Second of all. I DID NOT EXPECT STOLAS TO BE SO HORNY HOLY SHIT. I only knew the character from some random fanart I saw on my timeline so imagine my surprise when I heard him actually *speak* lmao.
I think I'm gonna like that show.

You have a comprehensive assortment of jazz. A friend has gone the "These #edibles aren't worth sh*t" route and needs to be a #THC couch potato for a while, or if you'd like, a Persian carpet pilot. What do you have on repeat?

It's X-Files Day. March 7 marks the date of the premiere of its pilot in 1992.
Obviously beloved everywhere, I think I've talked about it here before and how much it means to me. It was big in my life and was an interesting point when meeting @… too - her family was watching with her just like mine was with me, on opposite sides of the USA every week when i…

"Ein Lächeln ist oft das Wesentliche. Man wird mit einem Lächeln belohnt oder belebt." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900–1944, frz. Schriftsteller, Pilot)
[via https://ub.hsu-hh.de/go/moinmoin]

pilot's squeaky scream makes me laugh #monsterdon

VLBI detection of nearby (< 100 pc) young stars: Pilot observations
Sergio A. Dzib, Laurent Loinard, Ralf Launhardt, Jazm\'in Ord\'o\~nez-Toro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04355

VLBI detection of nearby (< 100 pc) young stars: Pilot observations
To increase the number of sources with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry available for comparison with the Gaia results, we have observed 31 young stars with recently reported radio emission. These stars are all in the Gaia DR3 catalog and were suggested, on the basis of conventional interferometry observations, to be non-thermal radio emitters and, therefore, good candidates for VLBI detections. The observations were carried out with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at two…

Joint Active and Passive Beamforming for IRS-Aided Wireless Energy Transfer Network Exploiting One-Bit Feedback
Taotao Ji, Meng Hua, Chunguo Li, Yongming Huang, Luxi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05418

Joint Active and Passive Beamforming for IRS-Aided Wireless Energy Transfer Network Exploiting One-Bit Feedback
To reap the active and passive beamforming gain in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless network, a typical way is to first acquire the channel state information (CSI) relying on the pilot signal, and then perform the joint beamforming design. However, it is a great challenge when the receiver can neither send pilot signals nor have complex signal processing capabilities due to its hardware limitation. To tackle this problem, we study in this paper an IRS-aided wireless energy …

"In 2011, the government’s Prevent strategy defined extremism as the 'active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and the mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs'."
Which party is it that wants to subvert democracy by requiring #VoterID in order to exclude the young and poor from voting?

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
"EU Voice and EU Video will be officially closed on 18 May 2024"
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publicati

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

EU-Pilot
#Medien #Politik

Zur Ukraine übergelaufener russischer Helikopter-Pilot angeblich tot
Ein zur Ukraine übergelaufener russischer Hubschrauber-Pilot ist nach Angaben aus Kiew tot. "Wir können diese Tatsache bestätigen", sagte der Sprecher des ukrainischen Militärgeheimdienstes, Andrij Jussow, dem öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen. Nähere Angaben zu den Todesumständen machte er nicht. Medienberichten zufolge wurde die Leiche in Spanien gefunden.
📑

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj nennt Lage an der Front "extrem schwierig" ++
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj hat eingeräumt, dass sich seine Armee in einer "extrem schwierigen" Lage befindet. Die Ampel-Fraktionen wollen die Bundesregierung auffordern, die Waffenexporte auszuweiten. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

TikTok soll neben "for you" und "following" in der Home-Ansicht als dritten Feed einen #STEM-Contentfeed kriegen. Habt ihr dazu schon irgendwo Reflexionen gefunden? Finde ich spannend und würde ich gerne mehr drüber erfahren, insbesondere wie die ersten Erfahrungen in den Pilot-Regionen UK und Irland sind.

history, war, canadian soil
"we can't send arms to combatants... but.... you could push them across a field... or tow them with horses?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo4U1SqnRpA
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7oar9z/did_america_give_planes_to_britain_in_1940_by/
wait what?
airfield half on US soil, half in canada. plane lands on US side, pilot gets out, canadian citizen (not military) pulls it across the boarder, gives it to whoever they like
O.o
Roosevelt why

Media: Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine found dead in Spain: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/media-russian-pilot.html

USCP Starts Body Worn Camera Pilot Program (United States Capitol Police)
https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-starts-body-worn-camera-pilot-program
http://www.memeorandum.com/240318/p99#a240318p99

If you defect from Russia with a stolen military helicopter, you should probably keep a low profile.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/maxim-kuzminov-dead-russia-ukraine-spain-b2498954.html

Maxim Kuzminov: Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine shot dead in Spain, reports say
Body of pilot found with multiple bullet wounds in southern Spain’s Alicante region

Pilot Spoofing Attack on the Downlink of Cell-Free Massive MIMO: From the Perspective of Adversaries
Weiyang Xu, Yuan Zhang, Ruiguang Wang, Hien Quoc Ngo, Wei Xiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04435

Pilot Spoofing Attack on the Downlink of Cell-Free Massive MIMO: From the Perspective of Adversaries
The channel hardening effect is less pronounced in the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system compared to its cellular counterpart, making it necessary to estimate the downlink effective channel gains to ensure decent performance. However, the downlink training inadvertently creates an opportunity for adversarial nodes to launch pilot spoofing attacks (PSAs). First, we demonstrate that adversarial distributed access points (APs) can severely degrade the achievable downl…

‘Gee, Senator, considering that I am wearing my pilot’s uniform and that I just told you I am a pilot, is there something about me that makes you think I’m a flight attendant?’
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/min

Looking forward to seeing this pilot effort to install #bike shelters in #Minneapolis come to fruition. MPS is a “bike city” that’s made substantial progress - with quite a bit of pushback - to develop needed #infrastructure

Minneapolis bike shelters pilot program might have e-bike charging
A Minneapolis pilot program will offer covered, locked bicycle shelters to better protect bikes, especially e-bikes, from theft and vandalism.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07476 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nuc…

Background study of the AMoRE-pilot experiment
We report a study on the background of the Advanced Molybdenum-Based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE), a search for neutrinoless double beta decay (\znbb) of $^{100}$Mo. The pilot stage of the experiment was conducted using $\sim$1.9 kg of \CAMOO~ crystals at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory, South Korea, from 2015 to 2018. We compared the measured $β/γ$ energy spectra in three experimental configurations with the results of Monte Carlo simulations and identified the background sources in e…

Es gibt nur wenige Nischenanwendungen, in denen
#Flugtaxis sinnvoll sein könnten: medizinische Rettungseinsätze oder Transport von Hilfsgütern in Katastrophengebiete. Elektrische autonome Fluggeräte sind auf kurzen Strecken mit geringer Nutzlast deutlich günstiger als Hubschrauber - kein Pilot, einfachere Wartung, kein teures Kerosin.

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

This post by @… inspired me to hunt down this photo I had saved off Twitter a couple years ago:
I hope TJ is having a great day. https://toot.cat/@DaywalkingRed…

DaywalkingRedhead 😷 (@DaywalkingRedhead@toot.cat)
Attached: 3 images Apparently, I’ve decided to share many of my favorite Star Wars memes. I know so much of the SW fandom is toxic and hateful. That said, I’ve been a fan since I saw Star Wars (later renamed A New Hope) in theaters in 1977. It has meant a lot to me, over the years. So here. Have some!

Russian pilot who hijacked a Russian military helicopter and transported it to Ukraine reportedly found shot dead in Spain: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/russian-pilot-who.html

Very glad to see this Class Action approved and moving ahead. Not only is it right and fair for the people who got the financial rug pulled out from under them (causing some to die by suicide) but it makes it clear just how many people were helped by UBI! It was working!!! People were getting out of the hole our current systems create!
#UBI

"South Australia tests energy-smart homes to ease pressure on grid"
#Australia #Energy

South Australia tests energy-smart homes to ease pressure on grid
An "Australian first" demonstration of aggregated flexible demand in residential settings will be rolled out in South Australia, with the state’s principle electricity distributor to deliver smart energy upgrades for 500 households as part of a pilot program to coordinate power usage and support the grid.

DroneUp unveils an autonomous drone "ecosystem" for last-mile deliveries, with Walmart, 7-Eleven, and Chick-fil-A the first retailers to pilot the system (Joann Muller/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/26/walmart-7-11-chick-fil-a…

Scoop: Walmart, 7-11, Chick-fil-A pilot new drone delivery tech
DroneUp unveiled a proprietary autonomous drone delivery "ecosystem" for retailers.

Ohio gets approval for drone traffic surveillance program.
"ODOT workers will pilot the 20-pound Censys Sentaero aircraft, which has a wingspan of 7.5 feet, over a four-mile stretch of U.S. 33, a highway northwest of Columbus"
#tranportation

Legende auf dem Markt - Albon sicher: „Alle Teams werden ihn jetzt jagen“ #News #Nachrichten

#GinaHecht
Pilot Episode "Panic at Malibu Pier"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

Some wine discounter delivered six bottles of Spanish red, some kind of a sampler intro pack, to us. Except: we never ordered it. The putative addressee at our house was one Egon Mayer, who seems to have been a famous German Luftwaffe pilot in WWII.
We emailed the distributor, who had the package picked up today. We got to keep a bottle for our diligence.

Russian pilot who hijacked a Russian military helicopter and transported it to Ukraine reportedly found shot dead in Spain: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/russian-pilot-who.html

Channel Estimation Considerate Precoder Design for Multi-user Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems: The Concept and Fast Algorithms
Liu Junkai, Jiang Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06072

Channel Estimation Considerate Precoder Design for Multi-user Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems: The Concept and Fast Algorithms
The sixth-generation (6G) communication networks target peak data rates exceeding 1Tbps, necessitating base stations (BS) to support up to 100 simultaneous data streams. However, sparse pilot allocation to accommodate such streams poses challenges for users' channel estimation. This paper presents Channel Estimation Considerate Precoding (CECP), where BS precoders prioritize facilitating channel estimation alongside maximizing transmission rate. To address the computational complexity of 6G lar…

DoorDash partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone delivery in the US, starting in Christiansburg, VA, after launching a pilot program in Australia in 2022 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/doordash-is-brin…

DoorDash is bringing its drone delivery pilot to the U.S. | TechCrunch
DoorDash is expanding its partnership with Alphabet's Wing to bring its drone delivery pilot to the U.S., the company announced on Thursday.

Trainable Joint Channel Estimation, Detection and Decoding for MIMO URLLC Systems
Yi Sun, Hong Shen, Bingqing Li, Wei Xu, Pengcheng Zhu, Nan Hu, Chunming Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07721

Trainable Joint Channel Estimation, Detection and Decoding for MIMO URLLC Systems
The receiver design for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) systems can be a tough task due to the use of short channel codes and few pilot symbols. Consequently, error propagation can occur in traditional turbo receivers, leading to performance degradation. Moreover, the processing delay induced by information exchange between different modules may also be undesirable for URLLC. To address the issues, we advocate to perform joint channel estimat…

history, war, canadian soil
"we can't send arms to combatants... but.... you could push them across a field... or tow them with horses?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo4U1SqnRpA
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7oar9z/did_america_give_planes_to_britain_in_1940_by/
wait what?
airfield half on US soil, half in canada. plane lands on US side, pilot gets out, canadian citizen (not military) pulls it across the boarder, gives it to whoever they like
O.o
Roosevelt why

USCP Starts Body Worn Camera Pilot Program (United States Capitol Police)
https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-starts-body-worn-camera-pilot-program
http://www.memeorandum.com/240318/p99#a240318p99

Filthy '47 - An Audio Serial in Four Parts - complete series ☠️💣🇬🇧
Dramatized 1940s-set comedy-thriller | Total listening time: 2h 16m
England. 1947. Former Land Girls Joyce and Kay and their two recent acquaintances, pilot turned pulp author Peter West and Flight Sergeant Byron Bayley, stumble onto a sinister plot to plunge the world back into war…
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Filthy '47 - An Audio Serial in Four Parts - complete series ☠️💣🇬🇧
Dramatized 1940s-set comedy-thriller | Total listening time: 2h 16m England. 1947. Former Land Girls Joyce and Kay and their two recent acquaintances, pilot turned pulp author Peter West and Flight Sergeant Byron Bayley, stumble onto a sinister plot to plunge the world back into war… 1 seasons, 4 episodes as of May 25, 2020.

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Es gibt nur wenige Nischenanwendungen, in denen
#Flugtaxis sinnvoll sein könnten: medizinische Rettungseinsätze oder Transport von Hilfsgütern in Katastrophengebiete. Elektrische autonome Fluggeräte sind auf kurzen Strecken mit geringer Nutzlast deutlich günstiger als Hubschrauber - kein Pilot, einfachere Wartung, kein teures Kerosin.

This post by @… inspired me to hunt down this photo I had saved off Twitter a couple years ago:
I hope TJ is having a great day. https://toot.cat/@DaywalkingRed…

DaywalkingRedhead 😷 (@DaywalkingRedhead@toot.cat)
Attached: 3 images Apparently, I’ve decided to share many of my favorite Star Wars memes. I know so much of the SW fandom is toxic and hateful. That said, I’ve been a fan since I saw Star Wars (later renamed A New Hope) in theaters in 1977. It has meant a lot to me, over the years. So here. Have some!

Ferrari stärker, aber: - Leclerc warnt: „Können Lando nicht ignorieren!“ #News #Nachrichten

Elon Musk shared on X:
“SpaceX just achieved peak download speed of 17Mb/s from satellite direct to unmodified Samsung Android phone”
Ofcourse it’s all in pilot/experimental stage but the future is clear, internet access, anywhere through Low Orbit Satelites using ordinary smartphones (future models probably). National governments will have less control over mobile networks. Although my guess is it only works outside.

Optimal Pilot Design for OTFS in Linear Time-Varying Channels
Ids van der Werf, Richard Heusdens, Richard C. Hendriks, Geert Leus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19379

Optimal Pilot Design for OTFS in Linear Time-Varying Channels
This paper investigates the positioning of the pilot symbols, as well as the power distribution between the pilot and the communication symbols in the OTFS modulation scheme. We analyze the pilot placements that minimize the mean squared error (MSE) in estimating the channel taps. In addition, we optimize the average channel capacity by adjusting the power balance. We show that this leads to a significant increase in average capacity. The results provide valuable guidance for designing the OTFS…

IM-based Pilot-assisted Channel Estimation for FTN Signaling HF Communications
Simin Keykhosravi, Ebrahim Bedeer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16618 https://<…

IM-based Pilot-assisted Channel Estimation for FTN Signaling HF Communications
This paper investigates doubly-selective (i.e., time- and frequency-selective) channel estimation in faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling HF communications. In particular, we propose a novel IM-based channel estimation algorithm for FTN signaling HF communications including pilot sequence placement (PSP) and pilot sequence location identification (PSLI) algorithms. At the transmitter, we propose the PSP algorithm that utilizes the locations of pilot sequences to carry additional information bits…

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US Air Force plans a fleet of 1,000 AI-controlled jets, the first of them operating by 2028; some AI versions already beat human pilots in air-to-air combat (Tara Copp/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-

AI-powered fighter jet takes Air Force leader for a historic ride
An experimental F-16 fighter jet has taken Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on a history-making flight controlled by artificial intelligence and not a human pilot. Kendall said he came out of Thursday's flight in California, witnessed by The Associated Press, confident enough in AI's capabilities that he would trust it to fire weapons. The flight is serving as a public statement of confidence in the future role of AI in air combat. The military is planning to use the technology to operate an u…

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Channel-Adaptive Pilot Design for FDD-MIMO Systems Utilizing Gaussian Mixture Models
Nurettin Turan, Benedikt Fesl, Benedikt B\"ock, Michael Joham, Wolfgang Utschick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17577

Channel-Adaptive Pilot Design for FDD-MIMO Systems Utilizing Gaussian Mixture Models
In this work, we propose to utilize Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) to design pilots for downlink (DL) channel estimation in frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. The GMM captures prior information during training that is leveraged to design a codebook of pilot matrices in an initial offline phase. Once shared with the mobile terminal (MT), the GMM is utilized to determine a feedback index at the MT in the online phase. This index selects a pilot matrix from a codebook, eliminating the need f…

A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed (Kate Rogers/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/19/los-angele

DARPA reveals that an AI-controlled X-62A jet successfully faced a human pilot in an F-16 during an in-air dogfight test carried out in 2023 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24133870/us-air-force-ai-dogfight-test-x-62a…

US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight
The US Air Force has revealed that it carried out its first successful dogfight test involving an AI-controlled jet against a human pilot.

NYC's Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law (Colin Lecher/The City)
https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/03/29/ai-chat-false-information-small-…

NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law
The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income. That's not right.

OpenAI debuts Voice Engine that lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second voice sample, available to a small group of partners like HeyGen (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/openai-custom-voice-engine-preview/

OpenAI built a voice cloning tool, but you can't use it... yet | TechCrunch
OpenAI's new tool in pilot, Custom Voices, allows developers to create a clone of any voice with a 15-second sample.