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This tile forces a pattern that does not repeat. If you use the simpler shape you can tile a wall such that it never repeats, but you can also make a repeating pattern.

Money is fungible, personal data is not.

Other advantages of zero based indexing, beyond being 'closer to the machine': It works better with the modulo operator: `array[i%length]` vs `array[(i+length-1)%length+1]`. Or you…

The ergonomics of this are really bad without some kind of implicit parameters and trait resolution. Without trait methods, ad-hoc overloading becomes impossible. You would have to…

It matters if people figure out how to make your model output inappropriate things and start sharing screenshots on twitter. What if you use a GPT model as part of a chat bot? Then…

Depending on the type of puzzle, it might be possible to work backwards. For example here, if you can compute reverse-transitions you could run one or two steps of that, and put al…

An important input to this (and similar) algorithms is multiple sequence alignment, which tells the algorithm which parts of proteins are preserved between species and variants, an…

I don't expect building a fusion power plant to become cheaper than a gas power plant. Both need steam turbines, cooling pipes, a big building, etc.. So that would be a lower bound…

A legitimate interest is a use of personal information that is needed to fulfill a service. This would be something like a session cookie for storing the contents of a shopping car…

> I'd be interested to see what a sufficiently strong QuickCheck specification of this problem would look like. I would write something like this in haskell: spec :: [Integer] -> P…

But laws about minimum wage and employee rights are not optional. A company can't decide to offer a job below minimum wage and argue that the arrangement is clear upfront, and ther…

This is not just replacing the discriminator. In this DSM-ALS method you learn a score function instead of a generator, and to generate a sample you need to evaluate the score func…

Excel does this for function names. If you open a file in your localized copy all the names are translated.

> The evidence for the harms of canola oil is still in its early days, but continues to grow. Research has linked it to: Memory impairment [1], Alzheimer’s risk [1], Cardiovascular…

> Fun fact: it requires more delta-V to hit the Sun than it does to leave the Solar System. Isn't that the delta-v needed to reach a stable orbit? That is, to slow down and counter…

> Steel wire rope is substantially stronger for its weight and for it size but generally harder to work with than plastic things of similar capacity. That is not true. The tensile …

They are certainly better than Type I and Type II, but it is still a potentially ambiguous (at least as a non-native speaker). What makes a "false positive" false? Is it called a f…

Imagine mathematicians calling commutative groups abelian? How do you remember if xy=yx there?

I assume `mkdir $@ && cd $@`

> Not sure why they removed z. Perhaps because of 2? My guess would be because of C, since Z can be pronounced as "zee"

There was a whole series on the office 2007 ribbon UI. (see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2008/03/13/table-of... )

This is not entirely correct, GDPR does not necessarily require consent, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... However, you are right in saying that t…

> You should be more concerned with what a given charity's administrative overhead is. If charity1 has a 20% overhead and then spends the rest on saving the life of a child for eve…

These ratings would change over time, so an A+ rating in 2017 would not be the same as an A+ rating in 2019. I think that is very confusing. Is a second hand A rated model better t…

> except if the difference is reasonably related to value provided by the consumer’s data I think it means that if you opt out of data collection, then things like personalized rec…