From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one’s inbox to peering into the future, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living. 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. My current focus is on inductive problems, such as probabilistic reasoning. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Stay on the bottom of things (instead of on top), and get ahead again at strategic times. I am interested in developing mathematical models of higher level cognition, and understanding the formal principles that underlie our ability to solve the computational problems we face in everyday life. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths show how algorithms developed for computers also untangle very human questions. Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, the authors of Algorithms to Live By, The Computer Science Of Human Decisions, gave a campus lecture at EPFL on October, 7th, 2019. This is a Summary of Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. Professor of Psychology and Computer Science. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach us. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists have been grappling with similar problems for decades. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.

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