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- noun The state or condition of being
suboptimal .
Etymologies
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I have the nagging suspicion that writing is really the art of knowing when to ask for feedback, and when to forge ahead and just ignore the suboptimality of your writing...
Would you stand up and walk out on me? Kat Howard 2010
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First, they argue that the suboptimality results from “devolution.”
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First, they argue that the suboptimality results from “devolution.”
Stephen Meyer on Bad Biological Designs - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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First, they argue that the suboptimality results from “devolution.”
Stephen Meyer on Bad Biological Designs - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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First, they argue that the suboptimality results from “devolution.”
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First, they argue that the suboptimality results from “devolution.”
Stephen Meyer on Bad Biological Designs - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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It is one of the techniques of soft-computing, i.e. computational methods tolerant to suboptimality and impreciseness
Fuzzy Logic Hajek, Petr 2006
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Mark Perakh Beyond suboptimality: Why irreducible complexity does not imply intelligent design
Irreducible Complexity as an Evolutionary Prediction - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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If humans generally behave suboptimality, the problem dissolves away.
Archive 2004-12-01 Chris 2004
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They argued that the old view of human rationality could not be salvaged, given all the examples of suboptimality.
Archive 2004-12-01 Chris 2004
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