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What is science?

... and silicon-based artifical intelligence. I mean - good heuristics is good heuristics, but stories about how it's going to be just like human inside and ...

Blog Post - Helium Väli - Jun 15 2010 - 5:47pm - 0 attachments

Don't Call Me Rational!

... in different environments. These tools come in the form of heuristics, or simple models, of a situation. Robert Axelrod in his 1973 paper, ... an accessibility check to see how closely the schema (or heuristics) currently available in ones “toolbox” fit the case, which lead ...

Article - Nicholas Horton - Jan 8 2009 - 11:43am - 0 attachments

Vaccine Wars: The Phantom Menace

... models of the world around us through metaphor and heuristics. Scientists and laypeople grasp different touchstones when ...

Article - John Dennehy - Mar 31 2010 - 4:26pm - 0 attachments

More Thought, Fewer Emotions - Autistic People Less Irrational, Says Study

... by contrast, is much faster, but less accurate, relying on heuristics, or "gut instincts". Previous studies have shown that our ... "To solve these complex problems we rely on simplifying heuristics – gut instincts – rather than extensive logical reasoning. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2010 - 4:50pm - 0 attachments

The Structure of Water and Other Liquids

Recently, I came across a review paper that shows a considerable amount, of progress in the last decade or so, in the understanding of the structure of liquids. That paper “The Structure of Liquid Water; Novel Insights from Materials Research; ...

Blog Post - Richard King - Feb 24 2010 - 7:24pm - 0 attachments

What Does A Real Scientific Controversy Look Like?

... the snot out of you. All of the above “rules” are heuristics and not absolutes. Nevertheless, they can be usefully applied to ...

Article - Gary Herstein - Jul 24 2009 - 1:01am - 0 attachments

Introducing Panda Cloud Antivirus: The Industry's First Free Cloud-Based Antivirus Thin-Client Protection

... and scan them using various techniques (antivirus, heuristics, intrusion prevention, behavioral analysis, etc.). This process ... local and remote antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, heuristics and goodware cache, while only consuming an average of 17 MB of RAM ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 29 2009 - 8:01am - 0 attachments

The Shortest Path Problem in a Dynamic Network.

The Shortest Path Problem in a Dynamic Network. A method is needed by which efficient new network routes can rapidly be calculated to route traffic away from problem paths and nodes. A possible method is proposed.  I propose to call it the ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 14 2009 - 8:48pm - 0 attachments

Valentine's Day Science For Women

... taken?  It seems so but that may be because your Value Heuristics around Valentine's Day are slightly out of whack .    I ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2009 - 1:39pm - 0 attachments

Webroot Expands Industry-Leading Malware Protection With Real-Time Classification And Protection From Malicious Web Sites

... are: - Real-Time Anti-Phishing Protection: Advanced heuristics provide complete, real-time protection against even the newest ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 28 2009 - 9:00am - 0 attachments