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 ...

Once a machine-vision system has acquired an image, a software image-analysis algorithm, known as a pattern-finding tool (PFT), must determine whether the image contains a particular pattern. While ...

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 ...

“Genius is vision, often involving the gift of finding patterns where others see nothing but a chance collection of objects (Andersen, 2013).” My grandkids loved to play “I Spy.” It is a game 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 ...