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Includes bibliographical references and index 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 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 computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found hav

Who reads Algorithms to Live by : the Computer Science of Human Decisions?

Author

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company; Henry Holt and Co.

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143196471

Category

business

Subjects

Psychology, Management, Social_sciences

Rating

4.16 / 5 (4,639 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13