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Patterns d'Universe

It amazes me that so many people seem to have the world figured out. For me, it seems that more I learn, the more often I need to amend my world view.

  • Pattern pattern
    • = recognizing patterns, tangible and virtual
    • = categorization (e.g. linguistics, music genres, software modelling)
    • 'birds of a feather'
    • Theory of Everything
    • pattern combination (kaleidescope effect)
    • the 'paper mache' principle
  • No pattern pattern
  • Antipatterns
    • = models which seem good, but fail to identify the fundamental principles or issues
    • socialism
    • micromanagement
    • drills / overtraining
  • Unipatternism
    • = one size fits all
    • Javascript: everything is an array
    • Lisp: everything is a function
    • Theory of everything
    • Everything is a nail if your only tool is a hammer
    • All you need is love
  • Life
    • = reproduction / continuous renewal
    • = individual birth and death
    • animals, plants, ideas, languages
    • evolution
  • Perception vs reality
    • I think, therefore I am
    • Allegory of the Cave
    • Self-reinforcement through research / study
    • If a tree falls in the forest... ?
    • art
  • Resource saturation
    • = infinite demand, finite supply
    • waterholes support as much life as they can
    • projects take as long as they are allocated
    • nobody ever has any money
    • RAM usage
    • scarcity in economics
  • Invisible hand
    • = decentralised forces with selfish / uncommon goals
    • = co-operation without coercion
    • free markets
    • open source
    • cathedral vs the bizarre
    • language evolution
    • sum of parts > whole
    • rainfall creates rivers
  • Visible hand
    • = decentralised forces with a common goal
    • Linux
    • Islam
  • Specialisation
    • facial recognition
    • facial recognition in sheep
    • tuning musical instruments
    • skateboarding
  • Try-hard pattern
    • = confusing the ends with the means
    • 'trying to be different is a negative motive'
    • arguing over shitty specifics
    • paralysis by analysis
    • micromanagement
  • Win/lose mentality
    • competition
    • war
    • jealousy
    • chess
  • Curvature
    • south of the south pole
    • before time began
  • Recursive dependency
    • dictionary
    • bootstrapping
    • this statement cannot be proved to be true
    • self-awareness / consciousness
    • 'catch 22'
  • Institutional mentality
    • = don't recognise institutions as artificial
    • 9 - 5
    • religion
    • school rules
  • Same space, different place
    • socio/economic differences
    • differences in cognitive capacity
    • different world views
    • perception vs reality
  • mutual distrust
    • recruitment
    • dating
    • trading
    • secret societies / gangs
    • credit
  • amutual distrust
    • greylisting email / phone
    • meritocracies
    • receptionists
  • Projection / Reciprocation / Reflection
    • karma
    • difficult people attract each other
    • what you say speaks only about you
    • shared opinions of each other (positive or negative)
    • cause and effect
  • Contingence / equivalence
    • human languages
    • programming languages
    • many competing products
    • # of religions / telecoms / political parties / OSs stablises
  • Contradictions
    • what happens when you die?
    • what happened before time began?
    • what would it be like if the universe didn't exist?
  • Cause and Effect
    • the chicken and the egg
  • Virtualisation
    • Turing machines
  • Emperor has new clothes
    • FUD
    • lambada
  • Awareness of inadequacy / inferiority
    • Unsolicited advice
    • verbosity
    • FUD?
    • snobs?
    • diminutives
  • Walled gardens
  • Halo effect
  • Too many patches
  • money worshipping
  • Going with the flow
    • Flooding of the Nile
  • Bottom up vs top-down
    • processes
    • creative work
  • Token gestures
  • Demerits
    • = escalating punishment
    • yellow card / red card
    • drivers license points
    • emotional bank-account
  • Scarcity mentality
    • hoarding money
    • the sky is falling in
  • Disfunctional functionality / politicking
    • = power struggle
    • = individual agendas
    • = survives regardless - cannot afford to fail
    • organisations, clubs, families, individuals
  • Power sharing
    • democracy / parliaments
    • capitalism
  • 'Honest' Abuse
    • spam
    • spamvertising?
    • individual agendas
    • own applecart
  • Pursuit
    • = motivation required
    • it is easier to rise than to remain on top
    • reward based discipline
    • greyhound racing
  • Size and innovation / agility
    • Athens, Israel, Medina, Elizabethian England
    • Open source
    • Halfbacks
  • Centripital balance
    • = movement is required for stability
    • economics and cash flow
    • balancing on a bike
  • Mis-selfdiagnosis
    • = prescribing an ability to yourself which you don't have
    • = inability to recognise you don't have said ability
    • = can sometimes be effective
    • dictators
    • 'God's gift to women'
    • popularity, intelligence, empathy, singing / dancing ability
  • Corner cases
    • = problems caused by minorities
    • = consume excessive resources
    • software defects
    • difficult customers
    • psychopaths
  • Rise and fall
    • = victim of your own success
    • empires
    • feast/famine cycles
    • boom/bust cycles
    • humans?
  • Fear of success
    • = people who prefer (thrive on?) failure
    • white-line fever
    • victims of iniquity
  • Easy in principle
    • dieting
    • saving
    • business
    • language acquisition
  • Overengineering
    • most software
    • coro drive tidal flow
    • products with no market
    • killing a fly with a hammer
  • The value-add
    • medical tourism in singapore
    • "do you want fries with that?"
  • Preference for the exotic