heuristics
Britishnoun
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“No human heuristics were injected into it,” said Folkert Huizinga, a researcher who worked on Leela.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
At the very least, these models are useful heuristics amid extreme uncertainty—and right now, we need all the good heuristics we can get.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
To use the editor, one uploads a dataset to Umwelt, which employs heuristics to automatically creates default representations in each modality.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
But the evidence also shows that many voters use heuristics and other decision-making shortcuts to reason their way through complex questions of politics.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2022
European writing and Oriental ideographic writing have each participated in this process of defining logic, rhetoric, heuristics, and dialectics.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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