General talk about software patterns

["Mike Beedle" <beedlem AT e-architects.com>]

Jesus,

My post is not about "String Patterns", which I am sure they exist, and are
no doubt *very interesting*, but about the cognitive process that arises
from generative patterns i.e. Alexander-like patterns:

        A Generative Theory of Similarity
        http://web.mit.edu/~ckemp/www/papers/KempBT05.pdf

If you have a chance skim through the paper -- imo, it is an interesting
paper, written by fairly well-regarded-in-their-field MIT folks about
cognition.

Nevertheless, if my post was about "String Patterns", say about the
similarity of Lagrangians across SuperString theories, or about patterns in
the similar spectrums generated by type I, IIA IIB and heterotic strings; it
would still be ok to post to this list:
http://www.hillside.net/patterns/mailing.htm
(There are many other lists to discuss "..design and architectural
patterns", but this list is not exclusive for that purpose.)

>From the above page I quote:

"patterns-discussion AT cs.uiuc.edu
 is for discussion of patterns in general."

But you _do_ have a choice... , if you are not interested in the subject,
simply don't read my posts, and don’t respond to them.  It is that easy,

- Mike



-----Original Message-----
From: Jesús Alonso 
[mailto:kenchoweb AT hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:14 PM
To: 
beedlem AT e-architects.com
Subject: RE: [patterns-discussion] A Generative Theory of Similarity
(withreferences to Alexander)

Erm... I'm afraid you've misunderstood the goal of this mailing list... :-/
This is for software patterns (mostly design and architectural patterns),
and has nothing (or almost nothing) to do with the string patterns you're
talking about ^^;

Excuse me if I'm wrong though. Have a happy St. Valentine's Day you too

>All,
>
>
>
>I was looking for "colored strings" in Google, because I was wondering 
>if apart from the conventional fermionic degrees of freedom, or 
>Chan-Paton factors, someone had attempted to add QCD-like colors to 
>superstrings.  (I am pursuing Physics again, this time a little more 
>seriously - I am doing String Theory at the University of Chicago these 
>days!)
>
>
>
>Well, I ran into some "colored strings" in Physics for example:
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>
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>An Attempt to Study Pentaquark Baryons in String Theory
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>http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/0404/0404019.pdf
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>Signature Studies of Cosmic Magnetic Monopoles
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>http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0102/0102002.pdf
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>             etc.
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>that weren't exactly what I was looking for, but were nevertheless very 
>interesting - no doubt there are interesting patterns in the subjects 
>discussed above!
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>But. I ran into some other "colored strings" that are related to the 
>patterns that may be of more interest to this crowd in:
>
>
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>A Generative Theory of Similarity
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>http://web.mit.edu/~ckemp/www/papers/KempBT05.pdf
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>
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>It is essentially a theory of perceived similarity with logarithmic 
>correlation functions but that uses a generative approach (a 
>combination of traditional pattern matching and generative pattern 
>analysis.)
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>
>The first reference of the author is .. Alexander, but are followed by 
>Chomsky, Feldman, etc. and even Wolfram.  (I will email the author to 
>make him aware of Grenander's "General Pattern Theory" as well.)
>
>
>
>Lastly, I also ran into this blog that discusses "colored strings" in 
>an entirely more historical context:
>
>http://mavenyavin.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_mavenyavin_archive.html
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>Well, that's all I had for strings and patterns.
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>Happy Valentine's day!!!
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>
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>May your lives be useful to find all the wonderful patterns around you, 
>in whatever subject you happen to study!
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>
>
>- Mike
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>


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