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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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