Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths - ★★★.¼

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AUTHORS: Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
GENRE: Nonfiction
PUBLICATION DATE: April 19, 2016
RATING: 3.25 stars.

Such an interesting title but the book seems like a letdown.

"Algorithms to Live By" can be lived by only by those who know how to conduct a statistical analysis on their own. While the concepts in many chapters are interesting, the book as a whole is too technical and utterly impractical. Only those who read it as a Statistical textbook will derive something valuable from it.

Statistics is such an interesting subject. I wish the book could have made this subject appealing to novice readers rather than driving them further away from the subject, which I'm sure it will.

Not a waste of time, but certainly not a must-read.

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