Mathematics
3 patterns in this domain
“Do it again, same result”
3/7 frontierIdempotency
Mathematicians named the concept first.
reliabilitydistributed-systemssafetydeduplication
7 domains“Know when to dig deeper, know when to move on”
3/7 frontierOptimal Foraging
In 1976, Eric Charnov published the Marginal Value Theorem, formalizing what foraging animals had evolved to solve: when to leave a depleting food patch.
decision-theoryecologyexplorationoptimization
7 domains“Four words, a thousand years of wisdom”
2/7 frontierProverbial Compression
画蛇添足 — four characters, four syllables.
languagecompressionknowledge-transmissionculture
7 domains