What Algorithms Want : Imagination in the age of computing

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 mar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ed Finn
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge, MA MIT Press 2017
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects. Computers > Social aspects. Algorithms > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • What is an algorithm?
  • Building the Star Trek computer
  • House of Cards : the aesthetics of abstraction
  • Coding Cow Clicker : the work of algorithms
  • Counting bitcoin
  • Coda: The algorithmic imagination.

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