Algorithms Quote by Steve McConnell

“heuristics are simple, efficient rules—either hard-wired in our brains or learned—that kick in especially when we're facing problems with incomplete information.”

— David DiSalvo

“An algorithm gives you the instructions directly. A heuristic tells you how to discover the instructions for yourself, or at least where to look…

— Steve McConnell

“people rely on a limited number of heuristic principles which reduce the complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simpler judgmental operations.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

— Imre Lakatos

“There are many counterintuitive and surprising ways companies can boost users’ motivation or increase their ability by understanding heuristics — the mental shortcuts we…

— Nir Eyal

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI…

— Daniel Kahneman

“the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“When heuristics don’t yield the results we expect, you’d think we would eventually realize that something’s wrong. Even if we don’t locate the biases,…

— Sheena Iyengar

Once you see the problems that algorithms can introduce, people can be quick to want to throw them away altogether and think the situation…

— Hannah Fry

Planning doesnt have to be long and tedious; it can just be a 60 second process

— Suman Rai

“Algorithms are simplifications; they can't and don't take everything into account (like a billionaire uncle who has included the applicant in his will and…

— Andrew McAfee