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heuristic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | heuristic program, heuristic rule |
| Type of | formula, rule |
| Has types | lateral thinking |
heuristic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of heuristic
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Can anyone guess what heuristic they used in the board room in valuing the deal?
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Badiou's use of set theory in this manner is not just illustrative or heuristic.
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Recall the consistency heuristic that put the backcountry skiers in harm's way.
From the denverpost.com
Isn't there a heuristic they can employ that scans the text for known spam words?
From the techcrunch.com
Sometimes life demands heuristic thinking, and other times it can be perilous.
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Nevertheless, Einstein and Bohr understood the heuristic meaning of the principle.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Many, like the familiarity heuristic, are an amalgam of habit and experience.
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The running time is based on the heuristic for choosing the vertices u and v.
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The heuristic used to select the entry to eject is known as the replacement policy.
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- A commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem
- Of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation
- A heuristic technique (/hju1D7Fu02C8ru026Astu1D7Bk/; Ancientu00A0Greek: u03B5u1F51u03C1u03AFu03C3u03BAu03C9, "find" or "discover"), often called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals...
- In computer science, metaheuristic designates a computational method that optimizes a problem by iteratively trying to improve a candidate solution with regard to a given measure of quality. ...
- In engineering, heuristics are experience-based methods that are used to reduce the need for calculations pertaining to equipment size, performance, or operating conditions. Heuristics are fallible and they do not guarantee a correct solution. ...
- A heuristic function, or simply a heuristic, is a function that ranks alternatives in various search algorithms at each branching step based on the available information (heuristically) in order to make a decision about which branch to follow during a search.
- A heuristic method; The art of applying heuristic methods; Relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems; Of a method that is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution
- (heuristics) Of or relating to exploratory problem-solving techniques that utilize self-educating techniques (as the evaluation of feedback) to improve performance. (From Merriam-Webster Online.)
- (Heuristics) simple and approximate rules, guiding procedures, shortcuts or strategies that are used to solve problems.
