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#approximation
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Heuristics: good enough approximations
These tactical rules of thumb are called heuristics and crop up in AI systems everywhere. Heuristics don’t guarantee success or correctness, but offer a good approximation. Heuristics are used when more exhaustive and precise methods are intractable.
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Periods are spatio-temporally irregular
If we accept that the substance of a period is made of cultural phenomena, quite naturally these phenomena cover an irregular area in space-time. A period may slowly spread out from a kernel region, and still flourish at distant areas when it has vanished already at its…