{"id":180,"date":"2002-12-06T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T21:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=180"},"modified":"2002-12-06T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T21:40:33","slug":"pattern-recognizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/12\/06\/pattern-recognizers\/","title":{"rendered":"pattern recognizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scoble <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2002\/12\/04.html\">posted<\/a> a great analogy 2 days ago which was ignored amidst the religious context.  He said this: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our brains are extraordinary pattern recognizers (think about it sometime &#8212; why can you look at a tree and instantly recognize it as a tree?). Our brains totally freak out when presented with something that has no pattern. Hey, look at the white noise on your TV sometime. You&#8217;ll start seeing patterns. You brain HATES not being able to see patterns.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>10 minutes ago I was trying to figure out why I&#8217;m so frustrated with the information architecture of the site I&#8217;m developing at work and the idea of the brain as a pattern recognizer helps makes perfect sense of that frustration.  The client (in this case represented by anywhere  from 1 to 8 people of a 1200 person company) has decided that they want a 3 column layout AND a 2 column layout and a single column layout&#8230; each with different navigation schemes, and with no apparent order.  This frustrates me to no end, but there&#8217;s not much I can do or say to change their mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scoble posted a great analogy 2 days ago which was ignored amidst the religious context. He said this: &#8220;Our brains are extraordinary pattern recognizers (think about it sometime &#8212; why can you look at a tree and instantly recognize it as a tree?). Our brains totally freak out when presented with something that has no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/12\/06\/pattern-recognizers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pattern recognizers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}