The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl, Dana MacKenzie

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl, Dana MacKenzie

432 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more tha...

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