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A fascinating exploration of how insights from 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 favorites 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 issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the 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 memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.--From dust jacket.
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
2017, HARPER COLLINS
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Algorithms to live by: the computer science of human decisions
2016, Henry Holt and Company, Henry Holt and Co.
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
2016, Holt & Company, Henry
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
2016, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Apr 26, 2016, Allen Lane
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Aug 28, 2016, Henry Holt, imusti
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Algorithms to Live By looks at the simple, precise algorithms that computers use to solve the complex 'human' problems that we face, and discovers what they can tell us about the nature and origin of the mind.
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