How artificial intelligence and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure by finding the absence of a pattern.
Humans are very good at spotting patterns, or recurring features that humans can recognize. Ancient Polynesians, for example, navigated the Pacific, recognizing patterns ranging from constellations of stars to more subtle ones such as the directions and sizes of ocean waves. Recently, mathematicians like me have begun to study large collections of objects that do… Read More »