SHOCKED. I am SHOCKED that a company full of biased people who don't think they're biased wrote a biased algorithm.https://twitter.com/danieljkelley/status/1161261463530614784 …
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As he points out, "we tend to live our lives by heuristics, and to try and control them by algorithms".
And, rather presciently, "the need for [heuristics] arises once the computer becomes alive with fast-flowing information". And "if the goal is not recognized in detail, an heuristic is required, so the computer must be supplied with an algorithm determining an heuristic".
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He gives path-finding as an example of an algorithm specifying a heuristic. We don't know where the highest point is, we know how to construct a heuristic that might find it.
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So TL;DR yes, I think that is a good shorthand!
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