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Home of deceased Ukrainian pilot 'Juice' searched over anti-corruption activist's case, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/home-of-deceased-ukrainian-pilot.html

Trump's FAA pick has claimed 'commercial' pilot license he doesn't have (Oriana Pawlyk/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/trumps-faa-pick-has-claimed-commercial-pilot-license-he-doesnt-have-00406090
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p37#a250615p37

Treasury released a bunch of market modernisation updates this morning, including for DIGIT - the thing (cryptocurrency, but not in those words) that the press dubbed "Britcoin".
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-gilt-instrumen…

Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) Pilot Update
The government are setting out features to be tested as part of the digital gilt instrument (DIGIT) pilot.

Co-pilot thinks it can draw graphs but it can't.

I cannot stress enough how stupid and dangerous an idea this is. https://mastotut.cat/@LoDeivit/114685756943284819

So we started up “Black Mirror” S7, & now I get why I hadn’t seen anyone posting about it. 😬
I mean, sympathy for the writers - *waves at current timeline* this is a lot to compete with.
But c’mon. One episode was basically just a “Rick and Morty” pilot.
OTOH: we also started “The Decameron” 👍

Archer startet Testprogramm für eVTOL Midnight mit Pilot an Bord
Archers Flugtaxi soll 2028 bei den Olympischen Spielen in Los Angeles eingesetzt werden. Ein Pilot testet das eVTOL für die Zertifizierung.

Sources: Netflix bought a pilot TV series from The Daily Beast, produced with Bright North Studios, focusing on topical news events in a 30-minute format (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/08/2025/netflix-…

Netflix buys Daily Beast TV pilot as it races against YouTube
The project is still in its early stages.

Nach Quali-Wutausbruch - „Habe überreagiert!“ Leclerc rudert jetzt zurück #News #Nachrichten

Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank is "going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin", Cognition's AI coding assistant, as Wall Street adopts AI (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/goldman-sachs-auto…

Goldman Sachs is piloting its first autonomous coder in major AI milestone for Wall Street
The arrival of agentic AI at Goldman Sachs, in which programs don't just help with tasks but execute complex jobs, signals a shift on Wall Street.

DMRS-Based Uplink Channel Estimation for MU-MIMO Systems with Location-Specific SCSI Acquisition
Jiawei Zhuang, Hongwei Hou, Minjie Tang, Wenjin Wang, Shi Jin, Vincent K. N. Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11899

DMRS-Based Uplink Channel Estimation for MU-MIMO Systems with Location-Specific SCSI Acquisition
With the growing number of users in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) are efficiently multiplexed in the code domain via orthogonal cover codes (OCC) to ensure orthogonality and minimize pilot interference. In this paper, we investigate uplink DMRS-based channel estimation for MU-MIMO systems with Type II OCC pattern standardized in 3GPP Release 18, leveraging location-specific statistical channel state information (SCSI) to enha…

Calamus 31 What ship, puzzled at sea
Just when I'm beginning to think I have some facility reading Whitman I meet a head-scratcher like this. Taken literally this is a poem about Whitman offering to guide a boat at sea, or to offer military troops to a besieged city.
But presumably it's a metaphor. Whitman offering to guide and help those in need. It's a little strange?
Hard-pressed for a gay reading here but I'll focus on this:
Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot.
Here Whitman is offering himself to a sailor, naming himself the most perfect pilot. I could imagine that being a metaphor of sexual mentorship. But honestly that's a stretch.

246 pilot whales slaughtered in Faroe Islands during controversial hunt https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/246-pilot-whales-slaughtered-during-faroe-islands-controversial-annual-hunt?utm_source=Mastod…

246 pilot whales slaughtered in Faroe Islands during controversial hunt — Species Unite
Pregnant females and newborn calves were among the pilot whales violently killed after being herded into the North Atlantic cove during this year’s Grindadráp.

OUP hasn’t suddenly turned evil, this has been going on for years now.
Here’s another reason why not to publish in DSH.
https://www.alpsp.org/news-publications/industry-news/oxford-university-pre…

Fordert Entschuldigung - Schumacher teilt aus: „Ist ein absolutes No-Go!“ #News #Nachrichten

Pilot-waves and copilot-particles: A novel approach to objective collapse
Axel van de Walle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08168 https://…

Pilot-waves and copilot-particles: A novel approach to objective collapse
We propose an extension of Schrödinger's equation that incorporates the macroscopic measurement-induced wavefunction collapse phenomenon. Our approach relies on a hybrid between Bohm-de Broglie pilot-wave and objective collapse theories. The Bohmian particle is guided by the wavefunction and, conversely, the wavefunction gradually localizes towards the particle's position. As long as the particle can visit any state, as in a typical microscopic system, the localization effect does not favor an…

Assessing the Prevalence of AI-assisted Cheating in Programming Courses: A Pilot Study
Kal\'eu Delphino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06438 https://

Assessing the Prevalence of AI-assisted Cheating in Programming Courses: A Pilot Study
Tools that can generate computer code in response to inputs written in natural language, such as ChatGPT, pose an existential threat to Computer Science education in its current form, since students can now use these tools to solve assignments without much effort. While that risk has already been recognized by scholars, the proportion of the student body that is incurring in this new kind of plagiarism is still an open problem. We conducted a pilot study in a large CS class (n=120) to assess th…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Neko Case:
🎵 Lady Pilot
#NekoCase
https://nekocaseofficial.bandcamp.com/track/lady-pilot
https://open.spotify.com/track/3cmwA0DeWEXoAA0QqH9Xmv

@… can you comment on the technical background?
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114852402217569321

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image A safer internet starts with smarter age checks. Today, we're rolling out our first prototype of an age verification app to protect minors: 📱 Online platforms will be able to use it to protect our children from harmful and illegal content. 🚸Young people will be able to verify their age without revealing any other info, such as their identity. 🌍 The pilot phase kicks off with 🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸 Making sure our children and young people…

Addressing tokens dynamic generation, propagation, storage and renewal to secure the GlideinWMS pilot based jobs and system
Bruno Moreira Coimbra, Marco Mambelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07379

Addressing tokens dynamic generation, propagation, storage and renewal to secure the GlideinWMS pilot based jobs and system
GlideinWMS has been one of the first middleware in the WLCG community to transition from X.509 to support also tokens. The first step was to get from the prototype in 2019 to using tokens in production in 2022. This paper will present the challenges introduced by the wider adoption of tokens and the evolution plans for securing the pilot infrastructure of GlideinWMS and supporting the new requirements. In the last couple of years, the GlideinWMS team supported the migration of experiments and r…

Hybrid Quantum Convolutional Neural Network-Aided Pilot Assignment in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Doan Hieu Nguyen, Xuan Tung Nguyen, Seon-Geun Jeong, Trinh Van Chien, Lajos Hanzo, Won Joo Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06585

Hybrid Quantum Convolutional Neural Network-Aided Pilot Assignment in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
A sophisticated hybrid quantum convolutional neural network (HQCNN) is conceived for handling the pilot assignment task in cell-free massive MIMO systems, while maximizing the total ergodic sum throughput. The existing model-based solutions found in the literature are inefficient and/or computationally demanding. Similarly, conventional deep neural networks may struggle in the face of high-dimensional inputs, require complex architectures, and their convergence is slow due to training numerous …

Pinterest and affiliate shopping platform LTK announce a pilot program in which high-performing image posts on LTK will automatically be shared to Pinterest (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685830/pinterest-ltk-affiliate-sho…

Pinterest is adding third-party influencer content to its feeds
Under a new pilot program, high-performing posts from shopping platform LTK will automatically be shared to Pinterest.

London Home Wind Power Pilot Project (2007) - Eking power from urban wind to attempt to bolster my PV system mid-winter. #wind #microgen - http…

London Home Wind Power Pilot Project (2007)
Eking power from urban wind to attempt to bolster my PV system mid-winter. #wind #microgen

Hay youtubers que merece la pena escuchar. Aquí un anšlisis de MentorNow y Airline Pilot sobre qué puede haber pasado en el accidente de AirIndia de ayer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGgKSDJcb54
Sin entrar en especulaciones, apuntan a que el problema puede haber venido …

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
SERVALAN: But with force shields up.
DERAL: More? [hands pilot glass]
PILOT FOUR-ZERO: Thanks. [drinks]
SERVALAN: Ginka, how badly damaged is the Auron patrol ship?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/43 B7B3

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

When repeats drive the vocabulary: a Byte-Pair Encoding analysis of T2T primate genomes
Marina Popova, Iaroslav Chelombitko, Aleksey Komissarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08918

When repeats drive the vocabulary: a Byte-Pair Encoding analysis of T2T primate genomes
The emergence of telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assemblies has opened new avenues for comparative genomics, yet effective tokenization strategies for genomic sequences remain underexplored. In this pilot study, we apply Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) to nine T2T primate genomes including three human assemblies by training independent BPE tokenizers with a fixed vocabulary of 512,000 tokens using our custom tool, dnaBPE. Our analysis reveals that only 11,569 tokens are shared across all assemblies,…

Jack Ciattarelli, a former state legislator endorsed by Donald Trump won the Republican nomination quickly Tuesday evening. 
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy pilot and federal prosecutor, won on the Democratic side, beating out five competitors.
New Jersey is one of two states, along with Virginia, hosting a high-stakes gubernatorial contest this year. 

New Jersey primaries: Trump-backed Ciattarelli wins GOP nod; Sherrill wins Dem nomination
Trump has jumped into the Garden State race, one of two gubernatorial elections this year that could serve as a pre-midterms referendum.

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

Music-induced cognitive change and whole-brain network flexibility: a pilot study https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1567605/full Now what might visual-to-auditory sensory substitution train…

Frontiers | Music-induced cognitive change and whole-brain network flexibility: a pilot study
IntroductionCognitive impairment that exceeds age-related cognitive decline is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. As the older adul...

"The ChargeWise California pilot found that dynamic price signals, combined with automated charging management, achieve up to 98% EV charging load delivered off-peak, above the 60-70% typically achieved by ToU tariffs."
https://www.current-new…

Dynamic price signals beat time-of-use tariffs for energy load management in US trial
A pilot programme funded by the California Energy Commission shows EV charging on dynamic price signals outperforms time-of-use (ToU) rates.

Ukrainischer F-16-Pilot ums Leben gekommen
Bei einem Einsatz gegen russische Luftangriffe in der Ukraine ist nach Militärangaben der Pilot eines Kampfjets vom Typ F-16 ums Leben gekommen. Der Oberstleutnant habe in der Nacht russische Angriffe abgewehrt, als der Bomber getroffen worden sei, so die Armee. Der Pilot habe selbst sieben Ziele abgeschossen und dann nach einem Treffer an seiner Maschine noch "alles getan, um sein F…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine verlässt Abkommen über Minen-Verbot ++
Nach den baltischen Staaten will auch die Ukraine aus dem Abkommen zum Verbot von Antipersonenminen austreten. Auch neue Sanktionen der EU werden nach Angaben des Kreml nicht zu einem Ende Krieges gegen die Ukraine führen.

#ParkerStevenson with #KimMorganGreene as Girl with Injured Foot
Pilot Episode "Panic at Malibu Pier"
#RandomBaywatch

Wilder Abflug - Furchtbarer Sturz! Pilot überschlägt sich mehrmals #News #Nachrichten

Main-sequence Turnoff Stars as Probes of the Ancient Galactic Relic: Chemo-dynamical Analysis of a Pilot Sample
Renjing Xie, Haining Li, Ruizhi Zhang, Yin Wu, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Gang Zhao, Shi-Lin Zhang, Xiao-Jin Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07758

Main-sequence Turnoff Stars as Probes of the Ancient Galactic Relic: Chemo-dynamical Analysis of a Pilot Sample
The main-sequence turnoff (MSTO) stars well preserve the chemical properties where they were born, making them ideal tracers for studying the stellar population. We perform a detailed chemo-dynamical analysis on moderately metal-poor ($-2.0<\mathrm{[Fe/H]}<-1.0$) MSTO stars to explore the early accretion history of the Milky Way. Our sample includes four stars observed with high-resolution spectroscopy using CFHT/ESPaDOnS and 163 nearby MSTO stars selected from the SAGA database with high-resol…

Was speaking to some journalists recently who didn't realise how long a history the use of radar has in measuring ice thickness over glaciers.
The technique was discovered by pilots, who must have had the frankly terrifying experience of landing on the ice sheet with their radars telling them they still had a few thousand metres of descent to reach the surface...
It's not mentioned in this obituary but I wonder if this guy would have seen it? Perhaps he didn't even have radar to assist in landing?
https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/obituaries-bq1u22g8z/-/a-gd4LiLY4RbOMXavSDWOBQQ:a:3195393-/0
newyorktimes@flipboard.com - Conrad Shinn, First Pilot to Land at the South Pole, Dies at 102
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/obituaries/conrad-shinn-dead.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Obituaries @obituaries-newyorktimes

Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that allows users to monetize their data, the first nationwide initiative of its kind in the world (Gabriel Daros/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-dwallet-user-data-pilot/

In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data
Brazil is piloting dWallet, that lets citizens earn money from their data, but experts warn it could deepen inequality.

Mein #Grundeinkommen verlost am Mittwoch 2025-06-11, 20:30 5 realistische und 20 utopische Grundeinkommen. #BGE.

Keine gute Woche für die Fliegerei in Russland.
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/114642025573627041

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@noelreports@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Russian Air Force related channel Fighterbomber confirms: Su-35S lost in Kursk region. Pilot rescued.

A hybrid dosimetry approach for remote audits in Ir-192 HDR interstitial brachytherapy: Development and pilot implementation
Eleftherios P Pappas, Vasiliki Peppa, Alexandra Drakopoulou, Eleni Velissariou, Zoi Thrapsanioti, Georgios Kollias, Efi Koutsouveli, Pantelis Karaiskos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06958

A hybrid dosimetry approach for remote audits in Ir-192 HDR interstitial brachytherapy: Development and pilot implementation
Purpose: This work presents the development and pilot implementation of a comprehensive remote dosimetry audit for Ir-192 High Dose Rate interstitial brachytherapy, integrating experimental and computational dosimetry procedures into a unified workflow. TG43 and Model Based Dose Calculations Algorithms (MBDCAs) are both considered. Methods: A compact, water-equivalent phantom was designed to hold two catheters, ten Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeters (OSLDs) and two radiochromic films, …

Formel-1-Pilot gesteht - Wechsel zu Red Bull? „Fühle mich nicht bereit!“ #News #Nachrichten

"Musk’s 'ChatGPT moment' may soon be here"
Not that ChatGPT is any sign of success, but this will probably be more like "CrashGPT" and "CollateralGPT". 😟
#Tesla #robotaxi #Musk #technology

A Trans Pilot Was Falsely Blamed for a Plane Crash. Now She's Fighting the Right-Wing Disinfo Machine (Varsha Bansal/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-trans-pilot-was-falsely-blamed-for-a-plane-crash-now-shes-fighting-the-right-wing-disinfo-machine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p95#a250702p95

I'd be interested in how well "hand over all the data or be fired" will work in a country without a presidential override for legislation.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/02/reform-uk-to-pilot-doge-…

The US company #Techmet
is likely to bid in the first pilot project of the Ukraine-US joint Reconstruction Investment Fund
on a #lithium #mine in the centre of the country,
Ukraine’s first deputy prime minister, Y…

Quick tip for those with young kids who want them to learn how to use a watch with an analogue (dial) style interface.
While the likes of Flik Flak make nice kids watches, they are a little on the pricy side.
Potentially better IMHO however are these kids field/pilot style watches from AliExpress. They cost basically nothing [<$5🇺🇸] and the hour hand points to an inner ring of numbered hours, while the minute hand points to an outer ring of numbered minutes. So simple!

Progress, baby! #AI
Microsoft Redesigns Office Portal to Prioritize Copilot – Pixel Envy https://pxlnv.com/linklog/microsoft-copilot-portal/

OUP hasn’t suddenly turned evil, this has been going on for years now.
Here’s another reason why not to publish in DSH.
https://www.alpsp.org/news-publications/industry-news/oxford-university-pre…

OUP hasn’t suddenly turned evil, this has been going on for years now.
Here’s another reason why not to publish in DSH.
https://www.alpsp.org/news-publications/industry-news/oxford-university-pre…

Receiving RISs: Enabling Channel Estimation and Autonomous Configuration
George C. Alexandropoulos, Konstantinos D. Katsanos, Evangelos Vlachos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10662

Receiving RISs: Enabling Channel Estimation and Autonomous Configuration
This chapter focuses on a hardware architecture for semi-passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and investigates its consideration for boosting the performance of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems. The architecture incorporates a single or multiple radio-frequency chains to receive pilot signals via tunable absorption phase profiles realized by the metasurface front end, as well as a controller encompassing a baseband processing unit to carry out channel es…

Channel Estimation with Asynchronous Reception for User-Centric Cell-Free MIMO Systems
Xuyang Sun, Hussein A. Ammar, Raviraj Adve, Israfil Bahceci, Gary Boudreau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05496

Channel Estimation with Asynchronous Reception for User-Centric Cell-Free MIMO Systems
The user-centric, cell-free wireless network is a promising next-generation communication system, but signal synchronization issues arise due to distributed access points and lack of cellular structure. We propose a novel method to recover synchronous pilot reception by introducing new pilot sequences and a matched filter window, enabling orthogonality even with asynchronous reception. Our approach mimics synchronous transmission by extending training sequences. Analysis shows asynchronous rece…

Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

So, initial thoughts on MSFS 2024: holy crap, this is a ton of fun. Also, I'm a shitty pilot and I'm gonna need some pedals.
#gaming #linux

Enduring Disparities in the Workplace: A Pilot Study in the AI Community
Yunusa Simipa Abdulsalam, Siobhan Mackenzie Hall, Ana Quintero-Ossa, William Agnew, Carla Muntean, Sarah Tan, Ashley Heady, Savannah Thais, Jessica Schrouff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04305

Enduring Disparities in the Workplace: A Pilot Study in the AI Community
In efforts toward achieving responsible artificial intelligence (AI), fostering a culture of workplace transparency, diversity, and inclusion can breed innovation, trust, and employee contentment. In AI and Machine Learning (ML), such environments correlate with higher standards of responsible development. Without transparency, disparities, microaggressions and misconduct will remain unaddressed, undermining the very structural inequities responsible AI aims to mitigate. While prior work invest…

#Caturday

Alte Bekannte - Max Verstappen zofft sich erneut mit Reporter #News #Nachrichten

The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a “systemic” way for the first time.
BBC News deputy global director Fiona Crack told Press Gazette the use of AI in the launch of BBC News Polska was designed to help bring the BBC’s coverage of stories of global interest such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to new audiences in a “slimline and efficient” way.

Inside the pilot BBC World Service website using AI translation
The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a "systemic" way for the first time.

My favorite part of Uber is following the little jellybean on the map. It's like being a drone pilot except I don't get to drop a grenade on anybody.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13880 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

An AI-powered Public Health Automated Kiosk System for Personalized Care: An Experimental Pilot Study
Background: The HERMES Kiosk (Healthcare Enhanced Recommendations through Artificial Intelligence & Expertise System) is designed to provide personalized Over-the-Counter (OTC) medication recommendations, addressing the limitations of traditional health kiosks. It integrates an advanced GAMENet model enhanced with Graph Attention Networks (GAT) and Multi-Head Cross-Attention (MHCA) while ensuring user privacy through federated learning. This paper outlines the conceptual design and architecture…

Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

RIDEN pilot survey: broad-band selection of candidate quasars with extended Lyman-$\alpha$ nebulae using CLAUDS-HSC-SSP-DUNES$^2$ joint data
Rhythm Shimakawa, Satoshi Kikuta, Haruka Kusakabe, Marcin Sawicki, Yongming Liang, Rieko Momose, Stephen Gwyn, Guillaume Desprez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04570

RIDEN pilot survey: broad-band selection of candidate quasars with extended Lyman-$α$ nebulae using CLAUDS-HSC-SSP-DUNES$^2$ joint data
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), delivering deep, multi-band ($ugrizy$) imaging data across 18,000 square degrees over the next decade. Before this ultra-wide-field survey, we constructed a broad-band Ly$α$ imaging toward 483 SDSS/BOSS quasars at $z=$ 1.9-3.0, using deep, wide-field ultraviolet to near-infrared ($u$-to-$K$) data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Survey (HSC-SSP), the CFHT Large Area U-band Deep Survey (CLAUDS), th…

Here’s what happened in a N.J. city when some got $12,000, no strings attached https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/06/heres-what-happened-in-a-nj-city-when-some-got-12000-no-strings-attached.html?utm_source=Mastodon

Here’s what happened in a N.J. city when some got $12,000, no strings attached
A two-year pilot program showed the payments improved recipients' lives, contradicting critics who claim such programs discourage work.

What's your favorite term that's not a word, but really should be?
I think right now it has to be "transpondering", meaning "aircraft transponder is enabled". I follow a RCAF helicopter pilot on youtube who has a habit of using this term any time he's running through the before-takeoff checklist.

#FishTieParty #JohnSherrod #MichaelNewman
Pilot Episode "Panic at Malibu Pier"

What I find really interesting is how we judge people from different cultures who basically do the same thing. Think about Greenlandic narwhal hunters, they're generally considered quite differently to Faroese pilot whale hunters, or indeed, this old boy who was sailing south to hunt humpbacks, sperm and blue whales in the 1950s 60s...
#RareEarth about the whale hunts of the Antarctic that led to near extinction.
Rare Earth: A Whale's Life
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f013

Microsoft just open sourced Github Co pilot and the Windows Subsystem for Linux. I've been removing CoPilot, but if the desktop version goes open source too I'll have to take a look at it's capibilities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIgrGqmoeHs

This feels like it supports my “government should mandate open and standardised APIs, not develop mono-apps” instinct, especially considering “agentic” AI use.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/may/21/uk-wide-parki…

High yield, low disorder Si/SiGe heterostructures for spin qubit devices manufactured in a BiCMOS pilot line
Alberto Mistroni, Marco Lisker, Yuji Yamamoto, Wei-Chen Wen, Fabian Fidorra, Henriette Tetzner, Laura K. Diebel, Lino Visser, Spandan Anupam, Vincent Mourik, Lars R. Schreiber, Hendrik Bluhm, Dominique Bougeard, Marvin H. Zoellner, Giovanni Capellini, Felix Reichmann

High yield, low disorder Si/SiGe heterostructures for spin qubit devices manufactured in a BiCMOS pilot line
The prospect of achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing with semiconductor spin qubits in Si/SiGe heterostructures relies on the integration of a large number of identical devices, a feat achievable through a scalable (Bi)CMOS manufacturing approach. To this end, both the gate stack and the Si/SiGe heterostructure must be of high quality, exhibiting uniformity across the wafer and consistent performance across multiple fabrication runs. Here, we report a comprehensive investigation of Si/SiG…

Integrating Generative AI in BIM Education: Insights from Classroom Implementation
Islem Sahraoui, Kinam Kim, Lu Gao, Zia Din, Ahmed Senouci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05296

Integrating Generative AI in BIM Education: Insights from Classroom Implementation
This study evaluates the implementation of a Generative AI-powered rule checking workflow within a graduate-level Building Information Modeling (BIM) course at a U.S. university. Over two semesters, 55 students participated in a classroom-based pilot exploring the use of GenAI for BIM compliance tasks, an area with limited prior research. The instructional design included lectures on prompt engineering and AI-driven rule checking, followed by an assignment where students used a large language m…

The MeerKAT Massive Distant Clusters Survey: Detection of Diffuse Radio Emission in Galaxy Clusters at $z > 1$
Dakalo G. Phuravhathu, M. Hilton, S. P. Sikhosana, Y. C. Perrott, T. Mroczkowski, L. Di Mascolo, D. Y. Klutse, K. Knowles, J. van Marrewijk, K. Moodley, B. Partridge, C. Sif\'on, U. Sureshkumar, E. J. Wollack
https://

The MeerKAT Massive Distant Clusters Survey: Detection of Diffuse Radio Emission in Galaxy Clusters at $z > 1$
Diffuse, low surface-brightness radio emission in merging galaxy clusters provides insights into cosmic structure formation, the growth of magnetic fields, and turbulence. This paper reports a search for diffuse radio emission in a pilot sample of six high-redshift ($1.01 < z < 1.31$) galaxy clusters from the MeerKAT Massive Distant Cluster Survey (MMDCS). These six clusters are selected as the most massive $(M_{\rm 500c} = 6.7\,- 8.5 \times 10^{14}~\rm{M_{\odot}})$ systems based on their Sunya…

Another successful demonstration of #V2G in Sweden 🇸🇪. It works in the pilot, although pre-qualification in primary reserve (FCR-N) is still pending https://

Volkswagens svenska testprojekt visar potentialen i dubbelriktad laddning | Volkswagen Personbilar
Dubbelriktad laddning i verkligheten – det kan Volkswagen nu visa upp efter att tekniken testats framgångsrikt under en längre tid i den hållbara bostadsrättsföreningen Stenberg i Hudiksvall.

Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin
resulted in "no progress at all"
on efforts to end the war in Ukraine,
while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict’s “root causes.”
– Russian shorthand for the issue of Nato enlargement and western support for Ukraine.

The two leaders did not discuss a recent pause in some US weapons shipments to K…

Study of AP Association and Users and Power Allocation for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
S. Mohammadzadeh, S. Mashdour, R. C. de Lamare, K. Cumanan, C. Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03848

Study of AP Association and Users and Power Allocation for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
This paper introduces an access point-user (AP-UE) association strategy combined with pilot power allocation to mitigate multiuser interference and enhance spectral efficiency (SE) in clustered cell-free massive MIMO (CCF-mMIMO) networks. We propose a dynamic channel-based clustering method that groups APs according to their channel correlation, ensuring users are associated with APs exhibiting similar channel characteristics. The proposed approach exploits hierarchical clustering, enabling fle…

Crafting Hanzi as Narrative Bridges: An AI Co-Creation Workshop for Elderly Migrants
Wen Zhan, Ziqun Hua, Peiyue Lin, Yunfei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01548

Crafting Hanzi as Narrative Bridges: An AI Co-Creation Workshop for Elderly Migrants
This paper explores how older adults, particularly aging migrants in urban China, can engage AI-assisted co-creation to express personal narratives that are often fragmented, underrepresented, or difficult to verbalize. Through a pilot workshop combining oral storytelling and the symbolic reconstruction of Hanzi, participants shared memories of migration and recreated new character forms using Xiaozhuan glyphs, suggested by the Large Language Model (LLM), together with physical materials. Suppo…

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
[Scene - shots of approaching space ships]
NOVA QUEEN PILOT: Keldan Control, Keldan Control, this is Nova Queen on primary approach zero-four-zero. Request orbital entry clearance.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/1 B7B3

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AI-based Environment-Aware XL-MIMO Channel Estimation with Location-Specific Prior Knowledge Enabled by CKM
Yuelong Qiu, Di Wu, Yong Zeng, Yanqun Tang, Nan Cheng, Chenhao Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06066

AI-based Environment-Aware XL-MIMO Channel Estimation with Location-Specific Prior Knowledge Enabled by CKM
Accurate and efficient acquisition of wireless channel state information (CSI) is crucial to enhance the communication performance of wireless systems. However, with the continuous densification of wireless links, increased channel dimensions, and the use of higher-frequency bands, channel estimation in the sixth generation (6G) and beyond wireless networks faces new challenges, such as insufficient orthogonal pilot sequences, inadequate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for channel training, and mor…

Predicting Readiness to Engage in Psychotherapy of People with Chronic Pain Based on their Pain-Related Narratives Saar
Saar Draznin Shiran, Boris Boltyansky, Alexandra Zhuravleva, Dmitry Scherbakov, Pavel Goldstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20805

Predicting Readiness to Engage in Psychotherapy of People with Chronic Pain Based on their Pain-Related Narratives Saar
Background. Chronic pain afflicts 20 % of the global population. A strictly biomedical mind-set leaves many sufferers chasing somatic cures and has fuelled the opioid crisis. The biopsychosocial model recognises pain subjective, multifactorial nature, yet uptake of psychosocial care remains low. We hypothesised that patients own pain narratives would predict their readiness to engage in psychotherapy. Methods. In a cross-sectional pilot, 24 chronic-pain patients recorded narrated pain stories…

#FishTieParty #JohnSherrod #MichaelNewman
Pilot Episode "Panic at Malibu Pier"

Ferrari-Pilot am Boden - Bittere Tränen! Hat Hamilton Hoffnung verloren? #News #Nachrichten

Just set up an instance of Uptime Kuma out of spite because Uptime Robot want to quadruple their prices.
1) It's really good! I like it!
2) I know you all hate the LLMs, but compared to having to read and understand the entire fucking Linux network stack all the way to the bottom in order to make a simple change, having Microsoft Co-pilot on hand to walk me through it made it take a couple of hours instead of several days.

Out-of-Band Modality Synergy Based Multi-User Beam Prediction and Proactive BS Selection with Zero Pilot Overhead
Kehui Li, Binggui Zhou, Jiajia Guo, Feifei Gao, Guanghua Yang, Shaodan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15136

Out-of-Band Modality Synergy Based Multi-User Beam Prediction and Proactive BS Selection with Zero Pilot Overhead
Multi-user millimeter-wave communication relies on narrow beams and dense cell deployments to ensure reliable connectivity. However, tracking optimal beams for multiple mobile users across multiple base stations (BSs) results in significant signaling overhead. Recent works have explored the capability of out-of-band (OOB) modalities in obtaining spatial characteristics of wireless channels and reducing pilot overhead in single-BS single-user/multi-user systems. However, applying OOB modalities …

Trump's FAA pick acknowledges he doesn't have a 'commercial' pilot's license (Oriana Pawlyk/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/trumps-faa-pick-acknowledges-he-doesnt-have-a-commercial-pilots-license-00411211
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p76#a250618p76

Pilot getötet - Ukrainische F-16 bei Abwehr von Drohnen abgestürzt #News #Nachrichten

Fascinating map by Elecore showing how much a #V2G-capable electric school bus (one year, regular driving pattern, 30 kW bidirectional charger) could make in different locations under PG&E's Hourly Flex Pricing Pilot(*) in California

Höhe falsch beurteilt - Feuerwehr pflückte Paragleiter-Pilot von Baum #News #Nachrichten

Generative Diffusion Receivers: Achieving Pilot-Efficient MIMO-OFDM Communications
Yuzhi Yang, Omar Alhussein, Atefeh Arani, Zhaoyang Zhang, M\'erouane Debbah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18419

Generative Diffusion Receivers: Achieving Pilot-Efficient MIMO-OFDM Communications
This paper focuses on wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) receivers. Traditional wireless receivers have relied on mathematical modeling and Bayesian inference, achieving remarkable success in most areas but falling short in their ability to characterize channel matrices. Neural networks (NNs) have demonstrated significant potential in this aspect. Nevertheless, integrating traditional inference methods with NNs presents challenges, part…

What's up with the Production of #EFuels in #Chile?
In 2022, #Siemens #Energy,

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

Unglück im Waldviertel - Segelflieger stürzt in Wohnsiedlung ab: Pilot tot #News #Nachrichten

Unglück im Waldviertel - Segelflieger stürzt in Wohnsiedlung ab: Pilot tot #News #Nachrichten

Superimposed DMRS for Spectrally Efficient 6G Uplink Multi-User OFDM: Classical vs AI/ML Receivers
Sajad Rezaie, Mikko Honkala, Dani Korpi, Dick Carrillo Melgarejo, Tomasz Izydorczyk, Dimitri Gold, Oana-Elena Barbu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20248

Superimposed DMRS for Spectrally Efficient 6G Uplink Multi-User OFDM: Classical vs AI/ML Receivers
Fifth-generation (5G) systems utilize orthogonal demodulation reference signals (DMRS) to enable channel estimation at the receiver. These orthogonal DMRS-also referred to as pilots-are effective in avoiding pilot contamination and interference from both the user's own data and that of others. However, this approach incurs a significant overhead, as a substantial portion of the time-frequency resources must be reserved for pilot transmission. Moreover, the overhead increases with the number of …

Exploiting Both Pilots and Data Payloads for Integrated Sensing and Communications
Chen Xu, Xianghao Yu, Fan Liu, Shi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15998 …

Exploiting Both Pilots and Data Payloads for Integrated Sensing and Communications
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is one of the key enabling technologies in future sixth-generation (6G) networks. Current ISAC systems predominantly rely on deterministic pilot signals within the signal frame to accomplish sensing tasks. However, these pilot signals typically occupy only a small portion, e.g., 0.15% to 25%, of the time-frequency resources. To enhance the system utility, a promising solution is to repurpose the extensive random data payload signals for sensing tasks…

A Glimpse of Satellite Galaxies in the Milky Way with the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST): Bootes III and Draco
Chao Yang, Zhizheng Pan, Min Fang, Xian Zhong Zheng, Binyang Liu, Guoliang Li, Tian-Rui Sun, Ji-An Jiang, Miaomiao Zhang, Zhen Wan, Shuang Liu, Han Qu, Ji Yang, Xu Kong, Wenhao Liu, Yiping Shu, Jiang Chang, Tinggui Wang, Lulu Fan, Yongquan Xue, Wentao Luo, Hongxin Zhang, Zheng Lou, Haibin Zhao, Bin Li, Hairen Wang, Dazhi Yao, Jian Wang, Hongfei Zhang, Feng Li, Ha…

A Glimpse of Satellite Galaxies in the Milky Way with the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST): Bootes III and Draco
We carry out deep imaging of the Milky Way satellite galaxies, Bootes III and Draco, with WFST as one pilot observing program to demonstrate the capability of WFST. Combining catalogs with PS1 DR2 and Gaia DR3, we derive proper motions for candidate member stars in these two satellite galaxies over a 12-year time baseline, yielding uncertainties of ~1.8 mas/yr at 21 mag and ~3.0 mas/yr at 22 mag in the r band. The proper motions derived from bright and faint stars are consistent, indicating no …

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RIS-Enabled NLoS Near-Field Joint Position and Velocity Estimation under User Mobility
In the context of single-base station (BS) non-line-of-sight (NLoS) single-epoch localization with the aid of a reflective reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), this paper introduces a novel three-step algorithm that jointly estimates the position and velocity of a mobile user equipment (UE), while compensating for the Doppler effects observed in near-field (NF) at the RIS elements over the short transmission duration of a sequence of downlink (DL) pilot symbols. First, a low-complexity ini…

War sofort tot - Abgestürzter Segelflieger: Pilot erst 17 Jahre alt #News #Nachrichten

Joint Error Correction and Fading Channel Estimation Enhancement Leveraging GRAND
Charles Wiame, Ken R. Duffy, Muriel M\'edard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14756

Joint Error Correction and Fading Channel Estimation Enhancement Leveraging GRAND
We present a novel method for error correction in the presence of fading channel estimation errors (CEE). When such errors are significant, considerable performance losses can be observed if the wireless transceiver is not adapted. Instead of refining the estimate by increasing the pilot sequence length or improving the estimation algorithm, we propose two new approaches based on Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) decoders. The first method involves testing multiple candidates for …

Wideband Coverage Enhancement for IRS-Aided Wireless Networks Based on Power Measurement
Ge Yan, Lipeng Zhu, He Sun, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23750

Wideband Coverage Enhancement for IRS-Aided Wireless Networks Based on Power Measurement
By applying tunable phase shifts to incident waves via passive signal reflection, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can offer significant performance improvement for wireless communication systems. To reap such performance gain, channel knowledge for IRS-cascaded links is generally required, which is practically challenging to acquire due to their high-dimensional and time-varying characteristics. Conventional pilot-based channel estimation incurs excessive overhead due to the large number o…

McLaren vor Ferrari - Norris siegt in Spielberg! Viel Frust bei Red Bull #News #Nachrichten

Replaced article(s) found for eess.SP. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.SP/new
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- A Radio Map Approach for Reduced Pilot CSI Tracking in Massive MIMO Networks
Yuanshuai Zheng, Junting Chen

Multimodal Visual Image Based User Association and Beamforming Using Graph Neural Networks
Yinghan Li, Yiming Liu, Wei Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18218 …

Multimodal Visual Image Based User Association and Beamforming Using Graph Neural Networks
This paper proposes an approach that leverages multimodal data by integrating visual images with radio frequency (RF) pilots to optimize user association and beamforming in a downlink wireless cellular network under a max-min fairness criterion. Traditional methods typically optimize wireless system parameters based on channel state information (CSI). However, obtaining accurate CSI requires extensive pilot transmissions, which lead to increased overhead and latency. Moreover, the optimization …

Conditional Diffusion Model-Driven Generative Channels for Double RIS-Aided Wireless Systems
Yiyang Ni, Qi Zhang, Guangji Chen, Yan Cai, Jun Li, Shi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12682

Conditional Diffusion Model-Driven Generative Channels for Double RIS-Aided Wireless Systems
With the development of the upcoming sixth-generation networks (6G), reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have gained significant attention due to its ability of reconfiguring wireless channels via smart reflections. However, traditional channel state information (CSI) acquisition techniques for double-RIS systems face challenges (e.g., high pilot overhead or multipath interference). This paper proposes a new channel generation method in double-RIS communication systems based on the tool …