The idea of a function is, that I'm going to capture a common pattern of computation.

函数的目的,就是寻找计算的共同模式。

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People are looking at stock prices to see patterns that they remember that are prominent in their thinking and then those patterns are given an exaggerated probability.

人们在记忆中寻找,过去股价变动的模式,这些模式已经深入人心,并且这些模式的概率被夸大了

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As she goes further and further in to her search for knowledge-- - and finally her abandonment of that search of knowledge-- she sees more and more that this is not just pattern, that it's these storm systems of suffering and need.

在她逐渐深入的求知过程-,和她最后放弃了对知识的寻找-,她越来越明白这不是模式，而是苦难而又需要的风暴系统。

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