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By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
Daniel Kahneman

Meaning of "heuristics" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEURISTICS

heuristics  [hjʊəˈrɪstɪks] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEURISTICS

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determiner
exclamation
Heuristics is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HEURISTICS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Heuristic

Heuristic refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery that give a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal. Where the exhaustive search is impractical, heuristic methods are used to speed up the process of finding a satisfactory solution via mental shortcuts to ease the cognitive load of making a decision. Examples of this method include using a rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment, stereotyping, or common sense. In more precise terms, heuristics are strategies using readily accessible, though loosely applicable, information to control problem solving in human beings and machines.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEURISTICS


anglistics
æŋˈɡlɪstɪks
ballistics
bəˈlɪstɪks
biostatistics
ˌbaɪəʊstəˈtɪstɪks
cladistics
kləˈdɪstɪks
criminalistics
ˌkrɪmɪnəˈlɪstɪks
ekistics
ɪˈkɪstɪks
ethnolinguistics
ˌeθnəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
floristics
flɒˈrɪstɪks
geolinguistics
ˌdʒiːəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
lexicostatistics
ˌlɛksɪkəʊstəˈtɪstɪks
linguistics
lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
logistics
lɒˈdʒɪstɪks
metalinguistics
ˌmɛtəlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
neurolinguistics
ˌnjʊərəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
paralinguistics
ˌpærəlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
patristics
pəˈtrɪstɪks
psycholinguistics
ˌsaɪkəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
sociolinguistics
ˌsəʊsɪəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
statistics
stəˈtɪstɪks
stylistics
staɪˈlɪstɪks

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEURISTICS

hetman
hetmanate
hetmanship
hettie
HEU
heuchera
heulandite
heurism
heuristic
heuristically
hevea
Hevelius
Hever Castle
Hevesy
hew
hewable
hewer
hewgh

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEURISTICS

acoustics
aeroacoustics
bioacoustics
computational linguistics
descriptive linguistics
descriptive statistics
diagnostics
electroacoustics
general linguistics
gymnastics
historical linguistics
inferential statistics
mathematics
nonparametric statistics
onomastics
parametric statistics
psychoacoustics
quantum statistics
rhythmic gymnastics
structural linguistics
vital statistics

Synonyms and antonyms of heuristics in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heuristics» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEURISTICS

Find out the translation of heuristics to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of heuristics from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heuristics» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

启发式
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heurística
570 millions of speakers

English

heuristics
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

heuristics
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الاستدلال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эвристика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

heurísticas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ন্যায়শাস্ত্রগত আবিষ্কারবিদ্যা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

heuristiques
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heuristik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heuristiken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

経験則
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

휴리스틱
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heuristik
85 millions of speakers
vi

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công nghệ tự động
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பட்டறிவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ह्युरिस्टिक्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sezgiselleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

euristiche
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

heurystyka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

евристика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

euristica
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

heuristics
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heuristiek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heuristik
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heuristikk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heuristics

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEURISTICS»

The term «heuristics» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.639 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEURISTICS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heuristics

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3 QUOTES WITH «HEURISTICS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word heuristics.
1
Daniel Kahneman
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
2
John W. Thompson
While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.
3
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEURISTICS»

Discover the use of heuristics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heuristics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment
Will interest rates go up? Can I trust this person? Such questions - and the judgments required to answer them - are woven into the fabric of everyday experience. This 2002 book examines how people make such judgments.
Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, Daniel Kahneman, 2002
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Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer ...
Heuristics viewed as information provided by simplified models. Performance analysis of Heuristic methods. Abstract models for quantitative performace analysis. Complexity versus precision of admissible Heuristics.
Judea Pearl, 1984
3
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well.
Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, Amos Tversky, 1982
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Simple heuristics that make us smart
To understand decisions in the real world, we need a different, more psychologically plausible notion of rationality, and this book provides it.
Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group, 1999
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How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings We've been very fortunate to receive fantastic feedback from our readers during the last four years, since the first edition of How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics was published in 1999.
Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel, 2004
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Design of Modern Heuristics: Principles and Application
This book is written in an easy-to-read style and it is aimed at students and practitioners in computer science, operations research and information systems who want to understand modern heuristics and are interested in a guide to their ...
Franz Rothlauf, 2011
7
Heuristics and the Law
Experts in law, psychology, and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal"heuristics in the creation and implementation of law
Gerd Gigerenzer, Christoph Engel, 2006
8
Simple Heuristics in a Social World
According to the book's thesis, the undeniable complexity of the social world does not dictate cognitive complexity as many scholars of rationality argue.
Ralph Hertwig, Ulrich Hoffrage, ABC Research Group, 2013
9
Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics
This book is not yet another high level text. Instead, algorithms are thoroughly described, making this book ideally suited for both computer science students and practitioners who work on search-related applications.
David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder, 2004
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121 Heuristics for Solving Problems
With this book, the reader will be able to: - Understand the 121 Heuristics for problem solving, both from their descriptions and from selected examples; - Find the more promising Heuristic(s) for the solution of his/her problems; - Apply ...
Marco Aurelio de Carvalho, Semyon D. Savransky, Tz-Chin Wei, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEURISTICS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heuristics is used in the context of the following news items.
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Darkode Shutdown: Former FireEye Intern Accused Of Creating …
... using a multitude of different tools, automation techniques and decompiling analysis heuristics,” his description of his time at the firm reads. «Forbes, Jul 15»
2
BMC Bioinformatics | Full text | Joint haplotype assembly and …
... Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, HASH, also incurs high computational cost while being more accurate than heuristics. As a follow-up to HASH, ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
3
High nucleotide diversity and limited linkage disequilibrium in …
Automated generation of heuristics for biological sequence comparison. BMC Bioinformatics 6: 31. | Article | PubMed | CAS |; Staubach F, ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
4
How Coke, Apple and others use marketing doctrine - Forbes India
Our qualitative research with executives from diverse firms and our review of related literature on heuristics for decision-making suggests three ... «Forbes India, Jul 15»
5
TortsProf Blog
We rely on heuristics. We pay more attention to the here and now as opposed to what might happen in the future. We commingle things that ... «Law Professor Blogs Network, Jul 15»
6
Datalogics PDF Alchemist, a developer toolkit for converting PDF to …
PDF Alchemist employs advanced heuristics and sophisticated algorithms to scan across columns and pages of a PDF, linking related text and ... «PR NewsChannel, Jul 15»
7
Rethinking Fast and Slow
Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation. Nat. Commun. 5, 3677(2014). Stupple, E. J. N., Ball, L. J., Evans, J. S. B. T. & Kamal-Smith, ... «h+ Magazine, Jul 15»
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ThetaRay Launches U.S. Office
Requiring no rules, heuristics or signatures, the mathematically-based platform and layered solutions uncover zero-day attacks, hidden APTs, ... «SYS-CON Media, Jul 15»
9
Why No One Understands You (And What To Do About It)
So instead, we take short cuts and use heuristics. The implications for leaders is that most of the people they interact are content to just get the ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
10
Social Media is Turning Us Into Thoughtless Political Extremists
Flashier, more inflammatory ideas rise to the top of the conversation thus fueling the sorts of radical biases and heuristics that subconsciously radicalize people. «Big Think, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Heuristics [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/heuristics>. May 2024 ».
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