Algorithms to Live By
The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian
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“@rabois @nealkhosla Yes! Love that book | Sensationally good book, and with an audiobook read by the coauthor... @brianchristian always better. Very interesting section explaining creative process in algorithmic terms, analagous to simulated annealing. @RogerLMartin will like.”
Source →“@rabois @nealkhosla Yes! Love that book | Sensationally good book, and with an audiobook read by the coauthor... @brianchristian always better. Very interesting section explaining creative process in algorithmic terms, analagous to simulated annealing. @RogerLMartin will like.”
Source →“@rabois @nealkhosla Yes! Love that book | Sensationally good book, and with an audiobook read by the coauthor... @brianchristian always better. Very interesting section explaining creative process in algorithmic terms, analagous to simulated annealing. @RogerLMartin will like.”
Source →“@rabois @nealkhosla Yes! Love that book | Sensationally good book, and with an audiobook read by the coauthor... @brianchristian always better. Very interesting section explaining creative process in algorithmic terms, analagous to simulated annealing. @RogerLMartin will like.”
Source →Recommended by 6 notable people, including Sophie Bakalar and Alfred Lin
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Clear Thinking, Information Technology, and Decision Making.
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 and time, so computer scientists have been grappling with similar problems for decad...
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Clear Thinking, Information Technology, and Decision Making.
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“@rabois @nealkhosla Yes! Love that book | Sensationally good book, and with an audiobook read by the coauthor... @brianchristian always better. Very interesting section explaining creative process in algorithmic terms, analagous to simulated annealing. @RogerLMartin will like.”
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