whpearson comments on Heuristic is not a bad word - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whpearson 06 April 2009 12:31:53PM 3 points [-]

Similarly inductive bias is a necessary thing for a machine learning algorithm.

Comment author: HughRistik 06 April 2009 07:27:25PM 2 points [-]

Yes, this would be an excellent example of heuristic.