Perhaps one term in the heuristic is the number of non-english words/names?. From Wordnik.com. [Pat Yourselves on the Back] Reference
This is called a heuristic: a mental shortcut arrived at almost without thought because experience has forged the connections so deeply. From Wordnik.com. [After the Diagnosis] Reference
Practise what I have read, namely heuristic evaluation. From Wordnik.com. [MSDN Blogs] Reference
Personally I’ve found that a very good heuristic is exactly what Josh describes. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A Substantive Post About the Issues] Reference
One annoying problem with Vista's auto-elevation filename heuristic is that it overrides any manifests specified in the application. From Wordnik.com. [Site Home] Reference
In such cases thought experiments serve as a kind of heuristic aid. From Wordnik.com. [Thought Experiments] Reference
I got off the word "heuristic" once, a magical bit of scholastic legerdemain, but I pronounced it in the manner of Johnny Cash. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Meritocracy] Reference
I am keenly interested in heuristic use of ID. From Wordnik.com. [A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers] Reference
Do you have some kind of heuristic, or are we dealing with an NP-complete case?. From Wordnik.com. [eightface uberfeed] Reference
This is also true for non-testing-based evaluation methods, such as heuristic reviews. From Wordnik.com. [A List Apart] Reference
For instance, we were the first to develop and implement innovations such as heuristic virus analysis and linguistic text analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Fulldls.com] Reference
Using an original contract as a heuristic might be a bad idea, but it’s not sufficient to build an indictment of collectivism or holism. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Further roots] Reference
Yes, as a general heuristic, that is true. From Wordnik.com. [Attached to Strings] Reference
Thank you for this insightful and heuristic piece. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Tasini: The Great Retraining Lie] Reference
This is where the parable gets even more heuristic. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Revenge]
Thus, he ever augments a world of heuristic knowing. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
It can serve at best as a (not so useful) heuristic. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference
And bringing back those horrific memories has its heuristic benefits. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Quakers and Shakers: Giuliani and Paterson Unlikely Bedfellows in the Axis of Anxiety] Reference
The Higgs mechanism plus heuristic QFT leads to a lot of predictions. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
In Tom's experience, Prehost's motivations had no heuristic undertones. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Revenge]
It is presented here by the author as an example of the heuristic value of. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The Kantian notions of heuristic devices are thus brought a stage further. From Wordnik.com. [ART AND PLAY] Reference
And of course it is true that untestable theories may have heuristic value. From Wordnik.com. [State of fear]
It becomes a heuristic for making the right decisions about language design. From Wordnik.com. [The Hundred-Year Language] Reference
This is heuristic culmination of much mulling over my lived world of nursing. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
The three main sections of Baumgarten's planned project, the “heuristic,”. From Wordnik.com. [18th Century German Aesthetics] Reference
So there is strong evidence that this heuristic interpretation is on the right lines. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
For a start, they have incredible heuristic value, pushing you to think in new directions. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Ruse: Accommodationism in the Religion-Science Debate: Why It's Incomplete] Reference
Second, since so-called arguments by analogy lack cogency and have merely heuristic value. From Wordnik.com. [NECESSITY] Reference
Even in an era of erasable markers and PowerPoint he uses a chalkboard for heuristic purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph A. Palermo: Glenn Beck: "Historian" for a Troubled America] Reference
Such an acceptance is a heuristic process, a self-modifying act, and to this extent a conversion. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Revolutions] Reference
I've been working to change that heuristic to "I have plenty of time for the things that are important to me.". From Wordnik.com. [Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life] Reference
Like Akismet, TypePad AntiSpam takes a multi-headed heuristic approach to detecting and blocking comment spam on blogs. From Wordnik.com. [2008 May] Reference
Take the availability heuristic: people predict the likelihood of an event based on how easily they can come up with an example. From Wordnik.com. [Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life] Reference
Also, I was pretty sure that my husband operates under the heuristic of "Try to skip practically any event to which I'm invited.". From Wordnik.com. [Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life] Reference
My standpoint, moreover, requires me to admit the validity of the hypothesis of Descent as an heuristic maxim of natural science. From Wordnik.com. [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference
For people like us (registered members of an election blog) the heuristic of a "D" or "R" under someone's name should really be irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference
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