heuristic

• Call it a heuristic or a shortcut or whatever, but in order to make scalable sense of a very strange world, we each have to apply existential algorithms and SWAGs to help us turn a lot of unrelated crap into a sensible story that we can live with.
• Or, more cautiously, rational subjects should regard the test merely as a heuristic device. —  fragments of consciousness
• The most computationally efficient of the three is shown to increase the value of information gathered by approximately 83\%, 27\%, and 8\% per day compared to benchmarks that sample in a naive non-adaptive manner, in a uniform non-adaptive manner, and using a state-of-the-art adaptive sampling heuristic (USAC) correspondingly.
• Conceptualizing documentation on the Web: An evaluation of different heuristic-based models for counting links between university Web sites. —  E-LIS
• According to social psychologists, the availability heuristic is a phenomenon in which people base their prediction of the frequency of an event or the proportion within a population based on how easily an example can be brought to mind. —  ISRAELITY

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