An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.
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 not. 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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ASIN : B015CKNWJI
Publisher : Henry Holt and Co.
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : April 19, 2016
Edition : 1st
Language : English
File size : 5.8 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 369 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781627790376
ISBN-13 : 978-1627790376
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #33,995 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #12 in Medical Cognitive Psychology #15 in Cognitive Psychology (Kindle Store) #29 in Decision-Making & Problem Solving
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