Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007547999 Number of pages: 368 Weight: 260 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm MEDIA REVIEWS What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? The authors 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.įrom finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms To Live By is full of practical takeaways to help you solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.
Modern life is constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show us how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. Ultimately, what we can gain is not only a set of concrete takeaways for the problems around us, not only a new way to see the elegant structures behind even the hairiest human dilemmas, not only a recognition of the travails of humans and computers as deeply conjoined, but something even more profound: a new vocabulary for the world around us, and a chance to learn something truly new about ourselves.A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. And we will learn about how the mind works, about its distinct but deeply related ways of tackling the same set of issues and coping with the same constraints. We will learn about the fundamental mathematical structure of these challenges and about how computers are engineered-sometimes counter to what we imagine-to make the most of them. The next pages begin our journey through some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future how to do so with grace and confidence and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same.
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