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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If somebody uses a heuristic that’s flat-out wrong, is it no longer a heuristic?

[–] meliante 0 points 4 months ago

I believe that's the jist of it. Heuristic is a way to get a roughly correct answer to a specific problem. If it doesn't provide a response that stays in the same ballpark of the real solution to the problem it's not heuristic, it's just a wrong train of thought.