Progress is almost never linear. Ups and downs and bursts. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Heuristics are simplified rules of thumb that make things simple and easy to implement. But their main advantage is that the user knows that they are not perfect, just expedient, and is therefore less fooled by their powers. They become dangerous when we forget that.

This would have been a great Christmas present. We will wait for June.

Academics think in very low-resolution digital while humans see things in analog.