What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing by Ed Finn

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing

Ed Finn

272 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction computer science philosophy technology challenging informative medium-paced
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The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of ...

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