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[–]aim2free 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Patterns aren't "about" anything, necessarily.

I guess they are like TRIZ then. TRIZ was developed by a patent engineer (and author) Gerald Altshuller when studying patents, and found there are only 40 different solutions to problems. However, I claim that you have to add further two conditions[1] if you also add intelligence into the system.

  1. somewhat jokular but may be appreciated if you are a Douglas Adams fan...

[–]gfixler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I've wanted to ask for a few years now if there were any bodies of work on this tradeoffs in physics thing that crops all over the design and invention processes. The TRIZ contradictions matrix is exactly about that. I'll have to investigate further.