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 ...

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 ...

People love patterns. Our brains readily organize the stream of information from our senses to find pattern, structure and connections. Our pattern-finding ability lets us understand the world in ...

Nature has many patterns and ecologists seek to both describe and understand them. Nature also is very complex. One challenge is to find patterns in that complexity and to ask whether simple ...

What can’t satellites do? They keep an eye on animals, track humanitarian crises, even help predict famines—and their above-ground perspective lets ground-bound observers find unexpected beauty in ...

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 ...