Talk:Heuristic algorithm

Virusscanners

Should there be a section concerning heuristic scanning in antivirus applications? Or is there already an article on that.. User:Fuzzbox 30 jun 2006

==

The link on "confidence" near the end of the article references a political stub, when the subject is statistical confidence.

Provably?

Well, I really have to admit that I don't know what "provably" (not "probably") means. Perhaps adding a small note to explain what it means, or a link to an article that does, is in order?

--Oskilian

It's the adverb of "provable", which means "there is a proof". Do you not know what a proof is, or did you not understand the flexion? It looks like a perfectly normal word to me, and there's over a million Google hits for it... Unfortunately, I don't know how to avoid this word without losing clarity. --84.59.189.46 19:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I do have to admit I didn't know the flexion and would have probably mistyped it as "proveably" if necessary (And I'm not the alone! google has more than 30000 pages on the word "proveable"!). However, I think that even though the article is properly written, it is not clear for those that don't know the flexion (There's a huge note on the page source explaining that it's supposed to be "provably" and not "probably". I think that it makes my point). To fix this, I've added a link to Proof theory on the word, so people those who don't know the flexion, understand that the word comes from "proof" instead of "probability". But, as a long-term solution, I think that the phrase should be rewritten to something like "finding algorithms with run times that can be proven to be good", which I think is more non-english-native-speakers friendly, without losing any clarity. --Oskilian

two well-defined .. meanings

Where are they? It'd be nice to have summary definitions in the intro, so that maybe the intro holds at least a little meaning. 67.161.46.169 01:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And how!

Wiki heuristics

Anybody care to write about Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb project [1] and its methods? And maybe even how the heuristic method can relate to Wikipedia?--Shtove 19:50, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If so, then not in this article, which is about technical, well-defined meanings of "heuristic" in computer science. It seems people continuously miss this point, however I am at a loss how to make this any clearer... --Mellum 07:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Creat a disambiguation header: "This article is about ... For other uses see ..." - but what would you disambiguate it from?--Shtove 18:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Doh! Already done.--Shtove 09:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]