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0 pointsdubfan12y ago0 comments

> You know the person you are going to meet must have it together enough to have a functioning credit card, smartphone, and cell service.

That's a poor heuristic. Ted Bundy had it together enough to get into law school.

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harryh12y ago

Heuristic refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery that give a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic

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0 pointsdubfan12y ago0 comments

> You know the person you are going to meet must have it together enough to have a functioning credit card, smartphone, and cell service.

That's a poor heuristic. Ted Bundy had it together enough to get into law school.

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harryh12y ago

Heuristic refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery that give a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse