pattern matching

http://www.tjmitchell.com/rosslyn.html I really don't buy this. Their two examples of patterns from the resonance matching the blocks don't work very well for me. At best, I'll take the latter explanation. But: If you hunt for patterns long enough, even in random data, you'll find them.

I'd like to think I'm a rational thinker and not prone to faulty superstitious reasoning, but I caught myself ruminating in a decidedly superstitious way, recently, and it got me thinking about the inherent ability of us all to fall into irrational thought processes. There's been a few...