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A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives.What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime?Exploring how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, ‘Algorithms To Live By’ helps to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. When should you switch between different tasks and how many tasks should you take on in the first place? How much messiness should you accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favourites is the most fulfilling? When computers face constraints of time and space, they too must untangle very human questions: how to have better hunches, when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach us.Acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms developed for computers can be applied from finding your spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing your inbox to understanding the workings of memory. Where you have a dilemma, they have a rule and each fascinating algorithm turns the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

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26 April 2017
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Brian Christian is the bestselling author of The Most Human , which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a New Yorker favorite book of 2011. His writing has appeared in Wired, The
Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and The Paris Review, among others. Brian has been a featured guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Charlie Rose Show, NPR's Radiolab and the BBC and has lectured at Google, Microsoft, SETI, the Santa Fe Institute, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and
the London School of Economics.

Tom Griffiths is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published over 150 scientific papers on a wide range of topics, including machine learning and cultural evolution in addition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0007547994
Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Collins (26 April 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780007547999
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007547999
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 260 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom

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Tom Griffiths is a professor of psychology and computer science at Princeton, where he directs the Computational Cognitive Science Lab. He has published scientific papers on topics ranging from cognitive psychology to cultural evolution, and has received awards from the National Academy of Sciences, the Sloan Foundation, the American Psychological Association, and the Psychonomic Society, among others. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Brian Christian is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers "The Most Human Human," a New York Times editors’ choice and a New Yorker favorite book of the year, and "Algorithms to Live By" (with Tom Griffiths), a #1 Audible bestseller, Amazon best science book of the year and MIT Technology Review best book of the year.
Christian’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as peer-reviewed journals such as Cognitive Science. He has been featured on The Daily Show and Radiolab, and has lectured at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, the Santa Fe Institute, and the London School of Economics. His work has won several awards, including publication in Best American Science & Nature Writing, and has been translated into nineteen languages.
Christian holds degrees in computer science, philosophy, and poetry from Brown University and the University of Washington. A Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in San Francisco.
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Unique

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This is one of its kind book. A must read for a person who is serious about career in software engineering.

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A must have in library collections. Describes the principles of computation and their practical applicability using simple examples. Such a pleasure to read this book again and again!

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Suits readers of all walks of life

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Tavish

Gives intuitive way to know computing concepts ranging from the most basic to most advanced.

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Brian Christian provides an intuitive understanding of computer science concepts in a way that anyone can grasp them irrespective of their age or academic background. Reading this just requires an open mind and appreciation of the subtle and gradual improvements in Mathematics and Computer Science.

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Amazing book

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This book answers the question, "where am i going to use math in real life" ? As a computer science student who already beleives it is necessary for common people to have some understanding of math, Even I was quite blown away by the amount of stuff which are totally relatable to everyone's life like Optimal Stopping when choosing your life partner, Harms of context switching way too frequently, How sometimes thinking less about a decision might be a better option, About how subtle changes in how we approach management, can change the behaviour of people in general.

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Essential for every rational being

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I've read the first two chapters so far and it seems that this is precisely what I needed in my life. Rationality backed by math, and no fancy quotes or "life mantras" or "life hacks" obtained by only reading case studies. I've always done the things mentioned in the book intuitively, without even realizing, but making a framework out of it would've been challenging and time consuming (since a lot of math is involved, which the authors have already done for me). Once I complete it, I'll either wait for the sequel of this book, or maybe develop other mental frameworks on my own. This is the best book of the hundreds I've read so far.

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Mind blowing

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A mind blowing book which provides knowledge about how computer science is connected with human decesions.

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Best book for brainstorm!!

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Illuminating and fascinating insights into how to improve your lot through insight and decisiveness

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Using what appears to be trivialities, what this book does is gently steer you towards achieving and leading a worthwhile fulfilling life by using AI (Artificial Intelligence) logic to help you to spot and understand hidden underlying, severely flawed, deeply entrenched, ingrained systems and practices that are out there to deliberately ensnare you; trap you; and ultimately enslave you and destroy you should you fail to grasp the nettle and do something about the root causes of your unhappiness – be it staying in a pointless fruitless job; failing to acquire skills you need to advance yourself; being influenced by others; or enduring a worthless unfulfilling relationship.

You are then given guidance to develop strategies for living in happiness by using a more LOGICAL approach to spot danger and take positive action to prevent jeopardy by considering if what you are doing is meaningful and worthwhile and brings LONG-TERM happiness.

This ‘ME TOO’ book is not for everyone because it asks you to examine and challenge traditional ‘taboos’ and what is euphemistically known as ‘conventional wisdom’ – and then having the COURAGE to take the required actions to set your life in order and gain your liberty and FREEDOM.

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Smart with real-life relevance

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I am not a computer scientist but a statistics student. Obviously very well researched. The best thing about it is its relevance to real world problems and you come away with useful knowledge to apply. There is no maths in the text but instead the rational logical format expected from computer scientists. This means that it doesn't flow easily and you have to concentrate at times to keep the thread hence the mark-down. This book raises a bigger point for me: computers are logical because they were built and coded by us so really they are just versions of us with bigger brains. Which means many of the point raised surely are just things we would have concluded by ourselves if we had the time & patience to crank the computations, right?

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This book does several things very well indeed

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This book does several things very well indeed. It introduced a broad range of Computer Science’s fundamental algorithms, explaining them simply and clearly. It shows how we might apply these algorithms in our everyday lives, to help us make more efficient and effective decisions. And it shows that even when we have the provably best means of making a decision, it might not always (or even very often) work.

It covers approaches to searching, and when to stop looking for improvements over what you already have. It discuses sorting, and tradeoffs between time spent keeping things in order, and time spent finding them later. It covers scheduling, and how the best order to do things in depends very much on what you are trying to optimise. It finishes with game theory, explaining why some situations lead to poor outcomes for all, and how understanding this can help you know how to change the situation to get better outcomes. And it does all this, and more, with a light touch that makes it very readable.

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Well written

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This book talks about the history and evolution of algorithms from the very beginning, talking about particular problems and the different approaches scientists, mathematicians and others have adopted in trying to solve these issues. This book is clever in how it can get the reader to see a general problem and showing them how it can be broken down into different categories that a computer can solve, and how the thinking to solve that problems can solve other problems. This is a key skill to have in fields such as applied mathematics and computer science and gets the reader thinking about problems in the right way.

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straight to the point and accessible for laypeople

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 August 2017

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This book is a well-made translation of the algorithmic thinking used by computer scientists into plain-English. I like the author's style of writing because it is straight to the point and accessible for laypeople. He make hard concepts easy to understand and uses a lot of examples throughout the book. Amazing piece of work!

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