Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250118360
• ISBN13: 9781250118363
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"