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Rationally Speaking #161 - Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian on "Algorithms to Live By"

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Jan 3, 202100:44:56Science & Medicine

Julia chats with the authors of Algorithms to Live By, about how to apply key algorithms from computer science to our real life problems. For example, deciding which apartment to rent, planning your career, and prioritiz...

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Rationally Speaking #161 - Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian on "Algorithms to Live By" is an episode from Sped up Rationally Speaking by rs_speedup. Julia chats with the authors of Algorithms to Live By, about how to apply key algorithms f...

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Published Jan 3, 2021, 00:44:56 long, audio available.

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Julia chats with the authors of Algorithms to Live By, about how to apply key algorithms from computer science to our real life problems. For example, deciding which apartment to rent, planning your career, and prioritizing your projects. In the process, they discuss the assumptions that underlie those algorithms (and what to do about the fact that those assumptions are inevitably violated by the messy real world), and why procrastination might actually be the right algorithm for the wrong problem. Sped up the speakers by ['1.11', '1.2', '1.0']

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Published Jan 3, 2021 and 00:44:56 long