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Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian (Paperback / softback, 2017)

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What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are t. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists have been grappling with similar problems for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths show how algorithms developed for computers also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to peering into the future, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

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PublisherPicador USA

ISBN-101250118360

ISBN-139781250118363

eBay Product ID (ePID)233059677

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SubjectLife Sciences: Zoology

LanguageEnglish

TypeTextbook

AuthorBrian Christian

FormatTrade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback / Softback

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Date of Publication04/04/2017

Country of PublicationUnited States

Author BiographyBRIAN CHRISTIAN is the author of The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive, which was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a New Yorker favoUrite book of the year. Alongside Steven Pinker and Daniel Kahneman, he was shortlisted for the Best Book of Ideas prize in the U.K. TOM GRIFFITHS is a professor of psychology and cognitive science at UC Berkeley, where he directs the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences.