with curiosity :: hao chen+ai
59 patterns across 192 domains
Patterns for surviving failure, absorbing shocks, and bouncing back
How agents align without central control — stigmergy, consensus, collective intelligence
Strategies for changing, learning, and co-evolving with environments
How systems establish identity, prove claims, and manage access without trusting blindly
Controlling rates, managing backpressure, and balancing throughput
Mutualism, competition, niche construction, and ecosystem dynamics
Phase transitions, molting, decomposition — changing form to survive
How systems store, compress, transmit, and verify information
Patterns for trading, matchmaking, mediation, and value transfer
How systems send signals, establish protocols, and bridge languages