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Hardcover What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing Book

ISBN: 0262035928

ISBN13: 9780262035927

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing

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The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.

We depend on--we believe in--algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations--the marriage vow, the shaman's curse--do...

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