Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)

Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

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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 computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.

In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

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一本迷人的探索書,介紹了如何將電腦演算法的洞察力應用於我們的日常生活中,幫助解決常見的決策問題,並揭示人類思維的運作方式。

我們的生活都受到有限的空間和時間的限制,這些限制產生了一系列特定的問題。在一天或一生中,我們應該做什麼,或者不做什麼?我們應該接受多少混亂?新活動和熟悉的喜好之間的平衡最令人滿足?這些問題可能看起來是獨特的人類困境,但事實並非如此:電腦也面臨著相同的限制,因此計算機科學家們幾十年來一直在努力解決他們版本的這些問題。而他們找到的解決方案對我們有很多教益。

在這本令人驚嘆的跨學科作品中,著名作家布萊恩·克里斯蒂安(Brian Christian)和認知科學家湯姆·格里菲斯(Tom Griffiths)展示了電腦使用的演算法如何解決人類的問題。他們解釋了如何有更好的直覺,何時該碰運氣,如何應對壓倒性的選擇,以及如何與他人建立最好的聯繫。從尋找配偶到找停車位,從整理收件箱到理解記憶的運作,「活用演算法」將計算機科學的智慧轉化為人類生活的策略。