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unusual facts about heuristic


Heuristics and sports

Heuristics, simple decision making strategies, are common in sports.


Automated Mathematician

This intuition was the basis of AM's successor Eurisko, which attempted to generalize the search for mathematical concepts to the search for useful heuristics.

Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory

Shelly Chaiken's heuristic-systematic model, Carl Jung's distinction between thinking and feeling, and John Bargh's theory on automatic vs. non-automatic processing all have similar components to CEST.

Contagion heuristic

The contagion heuristic includes "magical thinking", such as viewing a sweater worn by Adolf Hitler as bearing his negative essence and capable of transmitting it to another wearer.

David Lewis-Williams

While still utilising Semiotic theory (particularly the work of Charles Sanders Peirce) as a heuristic device, David's Ph.D. focused upon the various San ritual ceremonies, particularly the Healing or (so called) Trance Dance, and their connection to the rock art.

Dominique Bouhours

The popularity of Bouhours' discursive, heuristic Entretiens extended to Poland, where Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski imitated them in Dialogues of Artakses and Ewander.

Eric Bach

Bach also did some of the first work on pinning down the actual expected run-time of the Pollard rho method where previous work relied on heuristic estimates and empirical data.

Fred Glover

Fred W. Glover, computer scientist, inventor of tabu search and of the term "meta-heuristic"

Handwritten Address Interpretation

The key to the success was the discovery of a heuristic by researchers Sargur Srihari and Jonathan Hull that the street number and ZIP code could be relatively easily recognized, because they only consist of numerals, which could then be used to constrain the possible street.

Minimax

For example, the chess computer Deep Blue (that beat Garry Kasparov) looked ahead at least 12 plies, then applied a heuristic evaluation function.

Null-move heuristic

Another heuristic for dealing with the zugzwang problem is Omid David and Nathan Netanyahu's verified null-move pruning.

Quine–McCluskey algorithm

Functions with a large number of variables have to be minimized with potentially non-optimal heuristic methods, of which the Espresso heuristic logic minimizer is the de facto standard.

Take-the-best heuristic

Gerd Gigerenzer and Daniel Goldstein discovered that the heuristic did surprisingly well at making accurate inferences in real-world environments, such as inferring which of two cities is larger.


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