Adjective : a heuristic teaching method. From Dictionary.com.
None of these heuristics is perfect, but they're all better than nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Who to Trust?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
So they use certain heuristics and trust certain sources to indicate what they should think about a complex bill. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Poll Shows That Passing the Bill Improves Democrats’ Popularity] Reference
KAV uses improved "heuristics" for determining new viruses, and is more flexible. From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: Kaspersky 2009] Reference
I realized that I have my own idiosyncratic collection of "heuristics" for making decisions and setting priorities. From Wordnik.com. [Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life] Reference
(We call this practice "heuristics," which basically means rule of thumb.). From Wordnik.com. [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference
They are called "heuristics" because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines. From Wordnik.com. [Zach Klein Universal Feed] Reference
Not only that, but it also brought us a 'heuristics' system to disqualify trees that were unlikely to lead to a satisfactory solution. From Wordnik.com. [ACM TechNews] Reference
(Gigerenzer's heuristics, in contrast, are his keys.). From Wordnik.com. [The Moment of Truth?] Reference
Fairly non-heuristic (~useless) heuristics they must use, e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Pat Yourselves on the Back] Reference
What did I learn from the controversy about heuristics and biases?. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Kahneman - Autobiography] Reference
We might find logic quite fascinating, heuristics quite intriguing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Businessmen use rough heuristics rather than “set MR equal to MC”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Marginal Costs and Average Costs] Reference
My adventures in happiness research led me to the concept of heuristics. From Wordnik.com. [Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life] Reference
The entire human race depends on them to navigate life (i.e. heuristics). From Wordnik.com. [Guilty pleasures. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
Usually heuristics are useful, though sometimes they lead to cognitive bias. From Wordnik.com. [Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life] Reference
But Mill seems to regard them as more than heuristics in a utility calculation. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
Maybe no amount of ratiocination can capture the messy heuristics of true devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Brown's Nostalgorithm for Pop-Culture Sensations] Reference
I asked my friends if they had any personal heuristics, and I collected quite a few. From Wordnik.com. [Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life] Reference
No. But how would you lay down cash on whether these heuristics are worthy of trust?. From Wordnik.com. [Who to Trust?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
My adventures in the lands of happiness research led me to the concept of heuristics. From Wordnik.com. [Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life] Reference
If you were expecting me to fall back on feminist heuristics then you were sorely mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Guilty pleasures. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
And from what we see, we have an amputation of heuristics, through the technologies, as well. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schirrmacher: The Age of the Informavore] Reference
Wolfram | Alpha is full of heuristics, catering to every possible foible of human expression. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfram Blog : Future Directions of Wolfram|Alpha] Reference
DPI is just a bunch of heuristics that makes decisions based on certain properties of the data. From Wordnik.com. [‘DPI is necessary’ – Sandvine] Reference
I recently came to realize that the association of heuristics and biases has affected me as well. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Kahneman - Autobiography] Reference
But this sensible position seemed irrelevant in the early days of research on judgment heuristics. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Kahneman - Autobiography] Reference
This is even true of Wimsatt's (1976a) account of heuristics, which stress heuristics for explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Molecular Genetics] Reference
Gigerenzer has had a hard time convincing other cognitive scientists of the power and accuracy of heuristics. From Wordnik.com. [Less (Information) Is More] Reference
Or at least I haven't seen any evidence of great popularity that would incline me to mistrust these heuristics. From Wordnik.com. [Who to Trust?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Furthermore, despite his emphasis on heuristics as guiding theory modification, Lakatos still emphasizes testing. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Economics] Reference
For a comparison of heuristics with hermeneutics and iconography, see Carruthers, Book of Memory, 19 – 21. back. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
As part of their famous research on the “heuristics and biases” that underlie human reasoning, Tversky and Kahneman. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging] Reference
When conflict among these three heuristics arise, Levinson argues that these are resolved in the following way: Q defeats. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatics] Reference
As a disable person I know the jumping off points of heuristics and algorithms well the cliffs are different from sitcom cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [Blacks in survey say race relations no better with Obama] Reference
Nobody quite believes that you can make sounder decisions with less information and less time, which is what heuristics claim to do. From Wordnik.com. [Less (Information) Is More] Reference
They are more like rules or thumb or heuristics or even embody procedural knowledge that is difficult to express precisely in words. From Wordnik.com. [Relativism] Reference
Brian Eno said: “If you study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics, you will find that their minds rarely move in a line.”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Heuristic-Driven Public Opinion] Reference
The interaction of such constraints, founded on Levinson's heuristics, explains how the hearer arrives at the intended interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics] Reference
Michie recalls Turing experimenting with heuristics that later became common in chess programming (in particular minimax and best-first). From Wordnik.com. [The Modern History of Computing] Reference
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