Saturday, March 01, 2008
Patterns in our life - 1
The importance of Patterns in Life and in Computation
"Management is made easier by having fewer things to manage," eBay distinguished research scientist Paul Strong, who helps to design and manage the company's massive IT infrastructure, said in an interview. "By having patterns and fixing processes around them, you minimize variability, risk, and cost, and you maximize efficiency and to some degree agility."
Google has sent me link to the website where I found the above copied idea.
Actually, the basic idea that things are easier when we have patterns and fixed processes holds true in normal life as well. Just take car driving, after some time and many driven kilometers your brain has created patterns out of all situations you had encountered and creates patterns. These patterns enable fast and proper reaction
The same is valid for sports, in basketball, football, soccer, and ice hockey players learn fixed situation and how to outsmart the guys from the other team. Finally, this is also true for mating and the life lived in partnership.
In computing branch this process is made deliberately and on conscious level because it is necessary to produce programs for machines. In normal life the brain is responsible for the creation of patterns. Patterns are created after some situation has happened many times. Another typical example is language, human spoken language, mother tongue.
In reality we always have problems when some situation does not correspond to any pattern. Our brain is master in using patterns. Even if we encounter some situation we have never seen before our brain searches for similarities and reacts accordingly. That means sometimes our brain cannot find matching pattern and uses some other pattern and we behave strange.
This is actually the point of evolutionary psychology: our brains have stored patterns that developed several million years ago as well as patterns that developed only about 100 000 years ago. We do not encounter these situations anymore and so our brains use wrong, not matching patters.
Even when persons from one social layer meat people from other social layer the patterns do not function.
"Management is made easier by having fewer things to manage," eBay distinguished research scientist Paul Strong, who helps to design and manage the company's massive IT infrastructure, said in an interview. "By having patterns and fixing processes around them, you minimize variability, risk, and cost, and you maximize efficiency and to some degree agility."
Google has sent me link to the website where I found the above copied idea.
Actually, the basic idea that things are easier when we have patterns and fixed processes holds true in normal life as well. Just take car driving, after some time and many driven kilometers your brain has created patterns out of all situations you had encountered and creates patterns. These patterns enable fast and proper reaction
The same is valid for sports, in basketball, football, soccer, and ice hockey players learn fixed situation and how to outsmart the guys from the other team. Finally, this is also true for mating and the life lived in partnership.
In computing branch this process is made deliberately and on conscious level because it is necessary to produce programs for machines. In normal life the brain is responsible for the creation of patterns. Patterns are created after some situation has happened many times. Another typical example is language, human spoken language, mother tongue.
In reality we always have problems when some situation does not correspond to any pattern. Our brain is master in using patterns. Even if we encounter some situation we have never seen before our brain searches for similarities and reacts accordingly. That means sometimes our brain cannot find matching pattern and uses some other pattern and we behave strange.
This is actually the point of evolutionary psychology: our brains have stored patterns that developed several million years ago as well as patterns that developed only about 100 000 years ago. We do not encounter these situations anymore and so our brains use wrong, not matching patters.
Even when persons from one social layer meat people from other social layer the patterns do not function.
# posted by Dalibor @ 1:49 AM 
