One of the most widely adopted of the seven patterns of AI is the Patterns and Anomalies pattern. Machine learning is particularly good at digesting large amounts of data very quickly and identifying ...

The world's your oyster when it comes to colourful and visually stimulating picture taking opportunities. There's a whole carnival of colour waiting to be exploited. While we're busy snapping away at ...

Yesterday's post was a ringer. What you were actually looking at was a random distribution of earthquakes that I generated using the R statistical package. The earthquakes themselves are real (at ...

To find patterns in problems we look for things that are the same (or very similar) in each problem. It may turn out that no common characteristics exist among problems, but we should still look.

McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander died ...

Generating insight from log data traditionally requires writing a search. But that means you need to know which questions to ask. How do you get insight from data you know nothing about? Sumo Logic's ...

Pattern analysis makes for better image processing. Images on the right were compressed with the conventional JPEG format. Images on the left were reconstructed with a new technique that analyses ...

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 ...

There are some imperfections, but for the most part these bubbles intersect at three-way junctions with angles close to 120 degrees. This “preference” is dictated by the interplay between the material ...