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A review by vikingvisuals
Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Tom Griffiths, Brian Christian
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Although the book is informative, extremely well researched, and at times witty, it was way to slow for my taste and missed, in my opinion, the mark of its very title.
Given the title I was expecting much more insight into leveraging various algorithms for daily life, but instead each chapter seems to delve more into how certain algorithms came to be and what technical or other challenges they were formulated around, then a competitively abrupt note on more practical applications. The insight is more inferred in the texts than actually highlighting meaningful and actionable insights.
I feel the book caters to a general audience with the title, but then goes overly in depth into aspects of the algorithms that may put the general audience off while also being likely too general for people with a more technical/philosophical/statistical background.
I would recommend to someone interested in the subject that may be somewhat more new to it, but otherwise feel a lot of the main points that could be pertainant to daily life could be either summed up or expanded with less emphasis on the historical background.
Given the title I was expecting much more insight into leveraging various algorithms for daily life, but instead each chapter seems to delve more into how certain algorithms came to be and what technical or other challenges they were formulated around, then a competitively abrupt note on more practical applications. The insight is more inferred in the texts than actually highlighting meaningful and actionable insights.
I feel the book caters to a general audience with the title, but then goes overly in depth into aspects of the algorithms that may put the general audience off while also being likely too general for people with a more technical/philosophical/statistical background.
I would recommend to someone interested in the subject that may be somewhat more new to it, but otherwise feel a lot of the main points that could be pertainant to daily life could be either summed up or expanded with less emphasis on the historical background.