Patterns Blog

This documents how I find patterns in text. You can do it too. Ask questions, suggest text to study, report bugs, and recommend features to add. I will respond to you. -Ray

Patterns in the Mueller Report

Let’s find the repeated phrases in the Mueller Report. Here’s the plain text of the report. It is 442 pages. Here’s a PDF of the of output MegaPatterns.com without any preprocessing. There is lots of noise, like long sequences of periods. But browsing the lightly processed patterns, I see strong signals. This phrase is repeated 6 times in the Mueller Report: that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information There is no evidence discovered that anonymous releases occurred....

Patterns in US State of Union Speeches

Let’s find the repeated phrases in the US State of the Union speeches by Obama in 2011 and by Trump in 2019. I distilled the repeated phrases by deleting generic phrases like “the” and “and the”. Here are Obama’s patterns: Count Phrase 492 . 354 , 30 people 9 years, 8 , 000 8 come from 6 Democrats and Republicans 6 the world. 6 win the future 5 We need to 4 And tonight, 4 men and women 4 of our people 4 the future....

Patterns in Shark Baby Song

Let’s find the repeated phrases in the song Shark Baby by Shawnee Lamb and Robin Davies. It is a nursery dance song about a family of sharks. On June 17, 2016, “Baby Shark Dance” song was posted on YouTube, which has received billions of views. The lyrics are here: [Baby Shark lyrics] (https://genius.com/Pinkfong-baby-shark-lyrics) Here are the short patterns: Count Phrase 162 doo 25 shark (5 with !) 9 ! In the 2 word patterns, we see the 5 members of the family:...

Patterns in Chess

Yeah Buddy!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!! Let’s find the repeated sequences of moves in chess matches between chess masters. The source of the chess moves is here: https://github.com/rozim/ChessData/tree/master/ChessOk.com Stat Type Number # of matches 469,825 # of moves 19,031,726 runtime of analysis 62 minutes 23 seconds Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a plain text format for recording chess games. I’m running on a 2013 MacBook with Intel i5 2.6Ghz CPU. I will re-run analysis on a more current Lenovo X1 with Intel i7 1....

Patterns in Legal Agreements

Let’s find the repeated phrases in the contracts between you and the big software companies, aka end user agreements. Company Agreement Amazon aws.amazon.com/agreement/ Apple www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iOS12.pdf Facebook www.facebook.com/terms.php Google policies.google.com/terms?hl=en&gl=ZZ I looked at phrase of just two words, and discounting phrases with no content like “, and”. Company Count Short Phrase Amazon 77 this Agreement Apple 47 iOS Software Facebook 22 our Products Google 38 our Services Amazon is repetitious with 77 repeats....