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Autodidact vs Heuristic - What's the difference?

autodidact | heuristic |

As nouns the difference between autodidact and heuristic

is that autodidact is a self-taught person; an automath while heuristic is a heuristic method.

As an adjective heuristic is

relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems.

autodidact

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A self-taught person; an automath.
    • Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest autodidacts .

    See also

    * autonomous learning

    Synonyms

    * automath

    Related terms

    * autodidactic * autodidacticism * autodidactism

    See also

    * self-taught * self-educated

    heuristic

    English

    (wikipedia heuristic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems.
  • (computing, of a method or algorithm) that solves a problem more quickly but is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Te Chiang Hu, Man-tak Shing, title=Combinatorial Algorithms citation
    • , passage=If a heuristic algorithm works for most of the input data or its maximum percentage error is tolerable, we may prefer the heuristic algorithm to an optimum algorithm that requires a long time.}}

    Derived terms

    * heuristically * heuristical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heuristic method.
  • The art of applying heuristic methods.