What Algorithms Want
Imagination in the Age of Computing
$105.20
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2018
Summary
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 code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations-the marriage vow, the shaman’s curse-do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262536042 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262536048 |
| Author: | Ed Finn |
| Publisher: | Mit Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 155mm x 225mm |
| Series: | What Algorithms Want |
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—- Ed Finn’s What Algorithms Want shows us just how powerful computer programs and their helpers actually are, and the book needs no recourse to science fiction. – Los Angeles Review of Books –
Ed Finn’s What Algorithms Want shows us just how powerful computer programs and their helpers actually are, and the book needs no recourse to science fiction.
-Los Angeles Review of Books -
About The Author
Ed Finn
Ed Finn is Founding Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is also Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering and the Department of English.
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