Screen LibraryAlgorithms to live by : the computer science of human decisions /
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set...
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Henry Holt and Company,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First international edition. |
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A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so |
| Carrier Form: | x, 351 pages : illustrations, forms ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-334) and index. |
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9781627790369 (hardcover) : 1627790365 (hardcover) 9781627790376 (electronic book) 1627790373 (electronic book) 9781627798983 1627798986 9781250118363 (paperback) 1250118360 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | BF39 |
| CLC: | TP11 |
| Call Number: | TP11/C555 |
| Contents: | Optimal stopping : when to stop looking -- Explore/exploit : the latest vs. the greatest -- Sorting : making order -- Caching : forget about it -- Scheduling : first things first -- Bayes's Rule : predicting the future -- Overfitting : when to think less -- Relaxation : let it slide -- Randomness : when to leave it to chance -- Networking : how we connect -- Game theory : the minds of others -- Conclusion : computational kindness. |