A groundbreaking study of how computer machine knowledge can be extended to our everyday lives, helping solve specific decision-making challenges and highlighting the workings of the human brain. The lack of pace and time usually constrains our life, those constraints give rise to a large set of problems. Those may sound like purely human dilemmas, but they aren't: algorithms often face the same limitations, and computer scientists have been dealing for decades with their interpretation…
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A groundbreaking study of how computer machine knowledge can be extended to our everyday lives, helping solve specific decision-making challenges and highlighting the workings of the human brain. The lack of pace and time usually constrains our life, those constraints give rise to a large set of problems. Those may sound like purely human dilemmas, but they aren’t: algorithms often face the same limitations, and computer scientists have been dealing for decades with their interpretation of these problems. So they’ve found approaches that have a lot to tell us. Acclaimed writer Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths demonstrate in a dazzlingly interdisciplinary study that computer-used algorithms could often untangle very human problems. Algorithms to Live By turns the wisdom of computer science into techniques for human life, from choosing a partner to locating a parking spot, from arranging one’s mailbox to learning how memory works.
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A groundbreaking study of how computer machine knowledge can be extended to our everyday lives, helping solve specific decision-making challenges and highlighting the workings of the human brain. The lack of pace and time usually constrains our life, those constraints give rise to a large set of problems. Those may sound like purely human dilemmas, but they aren’t: algorithms often face the same limitations, and computer scientists have been dealing for decades with their interpretation of these problems. So they’ve found approaches that have a lot to tell us. Acclaimed writer Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths demonstrate in a dazzlingly interdisciplinary study that computer-used algorithms could often untangle very human problems. Algorithms to Live By turns the wisdom of computer science into techniques for human life, from choosing a partner to locating a parking spot, from arranging one’s mailbox to learning how memory works.
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