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Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

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Publisher Description

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind

All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favourites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such problems for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.
     In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian (who holds degrees in computer science, philosophy, and poetry, and works at the intersection of all three) and Tom Griffiths (a UC Berkeley professor of cognitive science and psychology) show how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can 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 understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

GENRE
Health, Mind & Body
RELEASED
2016
April 26
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
7.9
MB

Customer Reviews

ascobell ,

Fascinating and Practical

I love books that engage with what reality is instead of what it should be like as the starting point. This book merges behavioural science with statistics. Already made changes in my personal organizational systems at home, computer, and mind using the guidelines outlined.

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