It's a task at which humans are infinitely better than computers, which tend to get confused by the idea of patterns.
He starts with the idea of patterns and putting things together, watching Zola draw and working on his project with the quadriplegic getting physical with a computer.
He likes the idea of patterns and clusters constantly changing and wiggling around, as they do with human activity in major cities.
Characteristic were those who upheld the idea of patterning one's life after Jesus, the great example who had known neither status nor security and was eventually condemned to death.
As wildly multifarious as the show is, everything in it seems to pivot on the idea of pattern and design as a valiant but usually doomed attempt to impose some order and beauty on a random, chaotic world, as the Amish do in their meticulous quilt work.
As researchers working on some aspects of quantum computing, we were inspired by kNN and SVM methods to apply the idea of pattern recognition in quantum circuits [4, 6, 14, 16].
"It's the idea of pattern interrupt," Wiltse told me.
The venue, based on the work of architect Christopher Alexander and the idea of pattern language, will host audiovisual works from numerous artists.
"It's in keeping with a lot of the programming, introducing children to the idea of design as shape, color and pattern," said Jennifer Northrop, a museum spokeswoman.
You might introduce the idea of punctuated patterns in the fossil record with this lesson: Fossil Patterns: Gradualism vs. Punctuated Equilibria, from the Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes.
Charles Sabel casts doubt on the idea of fixed patterns of historical development, arguing that there were alternative pathways available even within the classic case of economic development in western Europe (Sabel and Zeitlin 1997).
