For one, the light that falls on your eyes is meaningless because it could mean anything, it's what we do with information that makes the difference, in how we find patterns and associate those patterns with a useful meaning.

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Many processes, both natural and artificial, do not fall into patterns that really allow for useful predictions or projections.

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As a start, however, many people find it useful to begin carefully recording their sleep patterns to see for themselves how sleep disruption is associated with their symptoms getting better or worse.

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Biochemists spent 14 years deconstructing DNA into about 25, 000 genes and 1.4 million variations in DNA that make an individual unique, their SNPS, looking for patterns in the data to find useful insights that can improve the quality and lower the cost of health care.

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Data loss prevention systems are useful for monitoring end user activities and identifying suspicious patterns of behavior on the network, like accessing unusually large amounts of sensitive information.

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Over the years, I have observed consistent weekly patterns in the Relative Strength Index (RSI) that are quite useful in determining both intermediate-term tops and bottoms.

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The technique should hold up in the real world despite ditching typical photolithography, the company says: the nanoimprinting remains useful in the error-prone world of storage, and it should scale as the patterns get smaller.

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