Algorithms to Live By
关于如何将计算机算法的见解应用于我们的日常生活，帮助解决常见的决策问题并阐明人类思维的运作方式的精彩探索我们所有人的生活都受到有限的空间和时间的限制，这些限制会导致一系列特定的问题。在一天或一生中，我们应该做什么或不做？我们应该接受多少混乱？新活动和熟悉的最爱之间的哪种平衡最令人满意？这些似乎是人类独有的困境，但实际上并非如此：计算机也面临着同样的限制，因此计算机科学家几十年来一直在努力解决他们对此类问题的看法。他们找到的解决方案可以教给我们很多东西。
在一项令人眼花缭乱的跨学科工作中，广受赞誉的作家布赖恩·克里斯蒂安和认知科学家汤姆·格里菲斯展示了计算机使用的算法如何也能解决非常人性化的问题。他们解释了如何拥有更好的预感以及何时让事情顺其自然，如何应对压倒性的选择以及如何最好地与他人联系。从寻找配偶到寻找停车位，从整理收件箱到了解记忆的运作方式，Algorithms to Live By 将计算机科学的智慧转化为人类生活的策略。
(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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