April 4, 2012
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heuristic
npm:4 Professor gave us the challenge to take the word “heuristic” and use it. (It was the most stimulating thing he said today.) As an extremely acronymly challenged person, this is my offering.
How in the h
Eck do people take un
Usual words and rec
Reate them into someth
Ing that mean
S something else en
Tirely and call it educat
Ionally sound logi
C?
I was going to explain to context of heuristics in this class. But since I don’t care, why would you?
Comments (36)
This is a heuristic poem because I did not know what that word meant so I had to go and look it up.
so using the dictionary was a heuristic method of learning what heuristic means, your professor is trying to wear you out so he doesn’t have put up with you throwing spitballs in class
well, if you were a politician, you could do just that, and we would call it bullshit.
nice heuristic poem, c.
@leaflesstree - @runisom48 - oh, fine. in the context of the class we’re talking about those stupid learning routines that spell out some word that is completely disconnected to the topic. (which i call an inappropriate usage of the actual word) my little rant of the evening.
@plantinthewindow - i can sling bullshit with the best of them. and amuse myself. i still can’t believe you used debris hut. so funny.
@promisesunshine - what the heck is wrong with debris hut? have you ever seen or made one?
@promisesunshine - Yeah, I think I know what you’re talking about. All those posters with the letters that are supposed to mean something and help people remember things, but they really don’t work? Yeah, doesn’t seem to fit the definition as I read it just a short while ago.
@plantinthewindow - abraham lincoln lived in one. the thing i posted yesterday. it’s what LLO said. so it makes me laugh. newsflash: i might be a vampire or a zombie. and it’s my fault she has chapped lips.
@promisesunshine - you are strange. you probably are a vampiristic zombie. which means your children are, also. chapped lips are the first sign of zombie-ism.
@leaflesstree - exactly. i may spend the whole weekend (which started 3 hours ago) writing fake ones. just for fun. rant. rant. rant.
@plantinthewindow - i admitted that i was a zombie and then she cried because she doesn’t like her brain but she still didn’t want me to eat it. i said i had no use for brains. then i went to get chapstick.
@promisesunshine - I hear brains and scrambled eggs are good.
@plantinthewindow - yummy! breakfast. and maybe a side of spleen.
@promisesunshine - with thyroid gland gravy.
@plantinthewindow - fresh out of that.
@promisesunshine – well this one was amusing, so if they’re all like that it’ll be interesting to read at least.
I like it! It’s cute! And you’re the one who said we were hard to get along with, but we don’t resent that at all, do we?
Oy Vey… Very cute. I like!!!
well I had to look it up
Heuristically speaking, your personal experience with this class sounds most ungratifying.
Heuristic means “To learn by direct experience”, or some such thing. It sounds like you could teach the old prof a thing or two.
i am a heurist
but isn’t everyone?
fun poem
Well hell, looks good to me, but what do I know. i am old.
@RighteousBruin - it has not been my favorite. for sure.
@godfatherofgreenbay - i have to look stuff up all the time.
@Grannys_Place - there always has to be a fancy word
@lanney - did i really say you were hard to get along with? i don’t think so.
@MzSilver -
@bonmots - heurist, purist, tourist (oops that doesn’t rhyme)
@promisesunshine - Well, technically I did say it first. I hope you’re having a great day!
I like that word.
And your poem.
@onestepcloserto_perfection - thanks.
It seems you used a creative method to solve a problem given to you by a professor. I’m guessing that next time he or she teaches the course your clever little poem will be used as an example.
@vexations - if i share it with him. he does seem to have a sense of humor though. (in addition to being an adorable teddy bear with a smooth nappytime voice)
. . . and I hear you adore teddy bears. . . . I also bet you don’t nap in class. @promisesunshine -
Now I feel lugubrious.
@ANVRSADDAY - why are you sad?
@vexations - i do and i did. kept waking myself up with my head lolls. good thing i didn’t take your advice about sitting in front.
May the process be with you – and with you alone.
Heuristics: Estimates Usually Refined Iteratively / Successively Trumping Intractable Calculations.
Sometimes people want to find the maximum value of Z which is a function of various inputs X1, X2, X3, … Depending on the relationship of the inputs it may be a simple matter using basic calculus or operations research methods to find the maximum value for Z exactly. However, in some cases it is really difficult, and the calculations are intractable. In such cases heuristics are applied to find an approximate solution. Often heuristics work by finding Z1 for certain inputs, and then finding Z2 which is somewhat greater. The method is repeated trying to find successively higher values Z3, Z4, … At some point some value Z* is deemed “good enough” and the process is considered complete. Z* may or may not be the maximum, but hopefully it is close enough to it to be useful.
@leaflesstree -
Note: acrostics use the initial letter of words to spell out something. Mnemonics are memory devices, such as acrostics, to remember sequences or other info.
@littleprofessor - exactly
hahahahaha! I have some googling to do.
@distractedbyzombies - just another service i provide.