tags: apophenia

2006

November

2006 Nov 7

direction

I’m grinding my teeth, thinking about what happens next, and what the next 18 months will mean.

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2006 Nov 8

synchronicity

The whole thing about things coming in threes. Again it’s one of those misconceptions that the pattern recognition machinery of the mind foists upon us, but enough about that.

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2007

October

2007 Oct 5

interweaving patterns everywhere

You can always find a bit of synchronicity if you look hard enough. Also known as the Forer Effect.

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2009

June

2009 Jun 10

apophenia, again

I suppose it's no accident that I ended up in the profession I'm in. From the beginning, my mind has been tuned to look for patterns. The finding of patterns is actually quite easy: everything has a pattern, every bit of data, every tiny stimulus can be fitted to a scheme. The big trick, the thing that they pay you big bucks for, is figuring which of these patterns actually match reality.

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