Heuristic in a sentence as a noun

The half-life of a good heuristic is maybe a couple of months.

A book, on the surface, should fit into the "size and speed" heuristic.

A good heuristic: if in doubt, assume the counting system we all use for everything, all the time.

V8/Chrome uses the constructor as a big part of the heuristic that determines the 'hidden class' of an object.

Let's see, you said the Hershey Bars can't be kept near dogs, so let me think about the heuristic of allocating them first.

The article criticises the unquestioning use of bad heuristics.

Humans are wired with a fairly small amount of heuristics and we use those for literally everything.

But I never learned that intuitive, heuristic, holistic way of grokking circuits like my brother did.

Heuristic in a sentence as an adjective

[1] the JVM might interpret Java bytecode that isn't frequently run based on some optimization heuristic, but it doesn't have to.

"In terms of heuristics, fraudsters adapt rapidly to whatever counter-measures you use.

No, the claims are not on "touch typing, multitouch"; they cover a very specific use of a heuristic to differentiate between scrolling and panning.

What I really like about this approach is that they do a trace of the program execution as a heuristic to guide the evolutionary strategy.

Furthermore, those heuristics are over-fitted to the particular problem types on standardized tests.

" Personally, I think passion could be a valuable heuristic in hiring, but the author seemed to imply that passion is only measured by your willingness to work outside of your day job.

Velocity appears to be a critical piece of information for robustness, as all the heuristics I tried to separate bodies already interpenetrating led to major glitches when the heuristic guessed wrong.

Older persuasion models posited that there were two routes to compliance: the central route, through the target's careful, rational consideration of options, and the peripheral route, through cognitively quick decisions made mostly on factors that are heuristic.

Heuristic definitions

noun

a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem

adjective

of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation