Imagine you have a list of 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4s from which you want to find patterns in the form 1-2-3-4 or 4-3-2-1. The list is about 100,000 items long.<BR><BR>For ...

“Machines, codes and algorithms can detect those patterns, and when you put all those datasets together, GIS gives you the ...

It's a commonplace of artificial intelligence to say that machine learning, which depends on vast amounts of data, functions by finding patterns in data. The phrase, "finding patterns in data," in ...

When I was a kid, I loved doing connect-the-dots drawings. I enjoyed discovering a pattern. Those who suggest conspiracy theories know the brain's natural ability to find patterns. They know that just ...

This article first appeared in Issue 7 of our free digital magazine CURIOUS. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. In science, we often ...

There are still gaps in our understanding of some devastating killers. One virus might attack one person differently than it attacks another. Sometimes a list of similar symptoms can have very ...

Behind every unexplained medical condition is a patient hoping for clarity and understanding. For people with suspected inborn errors of immunity (IEIs), genetic testing can facilitate individually ...

Digital ethicist Tristan Harris once noted the following: We check our phones more than 150 times per day. Knowledge workers spend a third of their day in email. Teenagers (aged 14–17) send 4,000 ...

The strange signals known as "fast radio bursts" (FRBs) have long mystified the astronomy community. The sudden, strong radio pulses, often emanating from distant galaxies, appear at regularly timed ...

Jeff King is director of product management at Framingham, Mass.-based CyberSource Corp. King wrote this piece for Computerworld’s communities. Online credit card fraud continues to be a major concern ...