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
When the brain defaults to heuristics that produce a less-than-optimal result or even an incorrect decision, it is operating with a cognitive bias.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
At the same time, it is constitutive, together with many other elements of human praxis: biological endowment, heuristics and logic, dialectic, training.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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