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- noun Plural form of
kluge .
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Examples
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Nature works through what the philosopher William C. Wimsatt has called borrowing a programming term "kluges"--suboptimal and inelegant solutions to evolutionary problems, in which slight modifications of existing structures generate new entities.
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By considering the kluges peppering the history of organic structures, scientists have dismissed the assumption that adaptation is always rational, allowing for empirically grounded reductions of the examples proffered by their critics.
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The environment has no foresight or overarching plan, unlike the intelligent designer, and so kluges are frequently messy, inefficient and highly contingent.
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In his attempt to define the "klugey-ness" of the human mind, Marcus would have us look no further than our memories, which he describes as "the mother of all kluges."
Faulty Powers 2008
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WRF model with all of its kluges on analytical or real cases to determine the impact on the accuracy of the numerics of all of the smoothing at the boundaries, filters, divergence damping numerical instability and other games that have been played.
Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007
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The WRF model will have considerable difficulties using that balancing method because of all of the kluges at the boundaries.
Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007
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Design, at least design carried out by an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful God, can be reasonably assumed to be free of large numbers of sub-optimal, even harmful kluges.
Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design. - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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This deep respect for our powers is sometimes lacking in the sciences, where many are taught to believe that our brains and bodies are taped together, far-from-optimal kluges.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2011
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These and other inborn capabilities we take for granted are not kluges, they're not "good enough," and they're more than merely smart.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2011
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The other thing that happened to the Linux experience is that savvy software vendors started to offer Linux support out of the box, rather than through painful kluges.
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