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 • Oct. 10, 2025

"We plan to collaborate with other bioinformaticians from external organisations linked to pan-genome research and develop a state-of-the-art heuristic algorithm to efficiently construct pan-genomes of populations."

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

Still, scientific support for Mori’s uncanny valley has been mixed, and it should be thought of as a heuristic rather than a hard and fast rule, says MacDorman.

From National Geographic • Sep. 29, 2023

This is a super useful heuristic to understand this idea of neuroenergetics.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2023

It needed heuristic value to survive, and this was lacking.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas