• In competitive two-player games, the killer heuristic is a move-ordering method based on the observation that a strong move or small set of such moves...
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  • evaluated before others. Another common, and very cheap, heuristic is the killer heuristic, where the last move that caused a beta-cutoff at the same...
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    program to play chess endgames for which she developed the important killer heuristic. After graduating from Stanford, Liskov returned to Mitre to work as...
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  • searches tend to improve the commonly used heuristics, such as the killer heuristic and alpha–beta pruning, so that a more accurate estimate of the score...
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    plies. See iterative deepening depth-first search. killer heuristic Assumption that a move (the killer move) that caused a search cutoff in another branch...
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  • α := max(α, score) if α ≥ β then break (* beta cut-off *) return α Killer heuristic A. Reinefeld. Spielbaum-Suchverfahren. Informatik-Fachbericht 200,...
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  • reciprocity. For example, if a person caused the death of another person, the killer would be put to death. Reciprocity was also a cornerstone of Ancient Greece...
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    However, the kind of heuristic used by early AV engines was totally different from those used today. The first product with a heuristic engine resembling...
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  • "Episode 2", also known as "Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer", is the third episode of the first season of the American mystery television series Twin...
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  • change. These include the heuristic-systematic model of information processing and the elaboration likelihood model. The heuristic-systematic model of information...
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    extension, PV extension, Futility Pruning and Razoring, History Heuristic, Killer-move heuristic. Evaluation: Piece-square tables, Pawn structure evaluation...
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    principle – Hypothesis about sapient life and the universe Availability heuristic – Bias towards recently acquired information Cherry picking – Fallacy...
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    support multiple processors. It also includes negascout search, the killer move heuristic, static exchange evaluation, quiescence search, alpha-beta pruning...
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  • possible state. The policy could be calculated (e.g., by iteration), be heuristic, or it can be learned. Game theory describes the rational behavior of...
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    China. In this sense Cuffe proposes the Grass Mud Horse trickster as 'a heuristic cultural function to aid the perceiver to re-evaluate their own experiential...
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  • of the hindsight bias; these were the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic. In an elaboration of these heuristics, Beyth and Fischhoff...
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  • called this the "positive test strategy". This strategy is an example of a heuristic: a reasoning shortcut that is imperfect but easy to compute. Klayman and...
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    of science... Subluxations, genes, gravity, the ego and life are all heuristic devices, "useful fictions" that are used to explain phenomenon that are...
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    Stockfish engine essentially consists of three parts: board representation, heuristic tree search, and board evaluation. Board representation is about coding...
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    g., fluency heuristic), choices (e.g., priority heuristic, natural mean heuristic), parental allocation decisions (e.g., equity heuristic), and medical...
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    of quantum logic gates and no measurements. Quantum parallelism is the heuristic that quantum computers can be thought of as evaluating a function for...
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    Reid, Hayley; Crabb, Michael (27 April 2018). "Meeple Centred Design: A Heuristic Toolkit for Evaluating the Accessibility of Tabletop Games". The Computer...
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    shooter Columbine effect Copycat crime Mass murder School shooting Spree killer Murray, Jennifer (January 2017). "Mass Media Reporting and Enabling of Mass...
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    man and become simply a machine. Virtuosity speaks of a virtual serial killer who manages to escape to the real world. He goes on a rampage before he...
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    utilize different strategies than humans to choose their moves: they use heuristic methods to build, search and evaluate trees representing sequences of...
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    Strangelove. Both Kubrick and Clarke denied this, and insist that HAL means "Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer". Biographer John Baxter quotes Ken...
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    Tversky attempted to explain this finding in terms of a simple rule or "heuristic" called representativeness. They argued that many judgments relating to...
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    content Cognitive bias/ Conformity Availability cascade Availability heuristic Bandwagon effect Confirmation bias Crowd psychology Mobbing Moral panic...
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  • Metropolis, and the 1920 play R.U.R. A later 20th century approach he names "heuristic hardware", giving as instances 2001 a Space Odyssey, Do Androids Dream...
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  • via the power of his mind alone as a result. Having solved Ordlich's heuristic paradox and deciphered the Voynich manuscript while masking his whereabouts...
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