[PDF.62tj] What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (MIT Press)

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (MIT Press)

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 | #243844 in Books |  The MIT Press |  2017-03-10 | Original language:English |  9.00 x.69 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Shocking and fascinating view behind the scenes of the digital world|By J. C.|What Algorithms Want reveals what's lurking under the surface of computers and the Internet. It's about how computer users' collective approval powers the Internet, how Bitcoin works, how film critics and other reviewers are being replaced by curators, and why the shows we watch on Netflix aren't real| ||Deeply researched and meticulously reasoned in a style that will meet academic standards while being hugely enjoyable and interesting to a general audience. Equally comfortable talking about Perry Mason and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ed Finn surveys a broad s

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 mer...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (MIT Press)   |  Ed Finn. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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