heuristic

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The Merton share is just a heuristic, but the main point is that investors should have a simple, rules-based framework in mind when thinking about sizing.

From Barron's

It operates automatically and effortlessly through heuristic shortcuts.

From Salon

When we rely on meritocracies — when we tell ourselves that we’re capable of judging merit "objectively," whatever that might mean — bias and heuristics inevitably come into play.

From Salon

To use the editor, one uploads a dataset to Umwelt, which employs heuristics to automatically creates default representations in each modality.

From Science Daily

"What's so cool about this is that it adjusts to each person's internal dynamics without any tuning or heuristic adjustments, which is a huge difference from a lot of work in the field," Young said.

From Science Daily