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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 494
I got 7/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2024/04/06?rival=1111100101

Which tile-based game features in Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club?
Click the questions to reveal the answers.

Your tile floor may contain human remains. Really old ones.
“A dentist found an ancient human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor”
#archeology
https://wapo.st/3WjIwlR

A dentist found an ancient human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor
The discovery of a human mandible embedded in a travertine floor tile went viral on Reddit, and now the family is working with scientists to study the specimen.

Today, deep in the woods, my phone suddenly stopped being able to access the Internet. First, I've noticed that the browser couldn't reach any website — but well, reception was poor and websites these days… Then, my railway timetable app couldn't fetch timetables. Okay, poor reception, or maybe they have server problems again.
Later, the reception was better for a while, but things still didn't work. Reception quickly jumped back down, so I blamed it again. And again. Finally, I've figured out this is going for far too long.
I've opened #RethinkDNS and it said "No Internet". I've disabled it temporarily, and everything suddenly started working again. Enabled again, everything's broken. WTF?!
I've dug deeper, and it turned out RethinkDNS apparently lost DNS-over-HTTPS connection… and it never figured out to reconnect on its own, or even give me a meaningful diagnostic. I had to figure out to enter DNS settings, and tap the server tile to make it reconnect.
In the end, it was DNS… but also terrible UX in this program.

By making a series of cuts and folds in a sheet of paper, Baker found she could produce two planes connected by a complex set of thin strips. Without the need for any adhesive like glue or tape, this pattern created a surface that was thick but lightweight. Baker named her creation Spin-Valence. Structural tests later showed that an individual tile made this way, and rendered in steel, can bear more than a thousand times its own weight.

This architect is cutting up materials to make them stronger and lighter
Emily Baker hopes her designs can make it cheaper and easier to build stuff in disaster zones or outer space.

so, there is this this space filling curve called a Gosper curve, which got some neat property like forming a fractal island that can tile the plane.
however, the best part of it is that it's also called a flowsnake 😃.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve

Gosper curve - Wikipedia

Your tile floor may contain human remains. Really old ones.
“A dentist found an ancient human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor”
#archeology
https://wapo.st/3WjIwlR

A dentist found an ancient human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor
The discovery of a human mandible embedded in a travertine floor tile went viral on Reddit, and now the family is working with scientists to study the specimen.

“Symmetrical decoration of tile set of wheel tiling, and related decorations of Tile(1,1), a periodic tile in the contineum of aperiodic monotiles .” Via https://twitter.com/alytile/status/1656607921659330561/photo/3

Yoshiaki Araki 荒木義明 (@alytile) on X
Symmetrical decoration of tile set of wheel tiling, and related decorations of Tile(1,1), a periodic tile in the contineum of aperiodic monotiles .

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09276 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Knot Mosaics with Corner Connection Tiles
A knot mosaic is a representation of a knot or link on a square grid using a collection of tiles that are either blank or contain a portion of the knot diagram. Traditionally, a piece of the knot on one tile connects to a piece of the knot on an adjacent tile at a connection point that is located at the midpoint of a tile edge. We introduce a new set of tiles in which the connection points are located at corners of the tile. By doing this, we can create more efficient knot mosaics for knots wit…

General harmonic measures for distance-expanding dynamical systems
Zhiqiang Li, Ruicen Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02987 https://a…

General harmonic measures for distance-expanding dynamical systems
Partially motivated by the study of I. Binder, N. Makarov, and S. Smirnov [BMS03] on dimension spectra of polynomial Cantor sets, we initiate the investigation on some general harmonic measures, inspired by Sullivan's dictionary, for distance-expanding dynamical systems. Let $f\colon X\to X$ be an open distance-expanding map on a compact metric space $(X,ρ)$. A Gromov hyperbolic tile graph $Γ$ associated to the dynamical system $(X,f)$ is constructed following the ideas from M. Bonk, D. Meyer…

Plaintiffs in Tile suit file more examples of company allegedly blocking law enforcement https://therecord.media/lawsuit-alleges-tile-tracker-blocked-law-enforcement

Plaintiffs in Tile suit file more examples of company allegedly blocking law enforcement
A class-action lawsuit says family-tracking app company Life360 destroyed evidence and blocked police investigations of stalking claims. New evidence has been filed by the plaintiffs.