The lives of all of us are subject to constraints of space and time, to binding limits from which a particular kind of problems arises. What should we do or leave unfinished in a day or in our entire life? How much clutter should we accept? What balance between the new and the familiar offers the greatest satisfaction?
Although these dilemmas may seem exclusively human, they are not. Computers, like us, have limited space and time, and thus computer scientists have struggled with such problems for many decades. The solutions they have found have much to teach us.
In an excitingly interdisciplinary work, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths illustrate how algorithms developed for computers can untangle some characteristic human questions. They explain how to improve our intuition and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with the numerous choices that overwhelm us, and how to better connect with others.
From finding a partner to finding a parking spot, from organizing our correspondence to managing our time, the Algorithmic Art of Decision-Making transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for everyday life.
Manufacturer
- Authors
- Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
- Publisher
- Panepistimiakes Ekdoseis Kritis
- Original Title
- Algorithms to Live By
- Type
- Computers - Information Technology
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- Computer science in everyday life
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 400
- Release Date
- 12/2018
- Publication Date
- 2018
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789605245344
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