Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0735222126 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A relatable, interactive, and funny exploration of algorithms, those essential building blocks of computer science—and of everyday life—from the author of the wildly popular Bad Arguments Algorithms—processes that are made up of unambiguous steps and do something useful—make up the very foundations of computer science. But they also inform our choices in approaching everyday tasks, from managing a pile of clothes fresh out of the dryer to deciding what music to listen to.With Bad Choices, Ali Almossawi presents twelve scenes from everyday life that help demonstrate and demystify the fundamental algorithms that drive computer science, bringing these seemingly elusive concepts into the understandable realms of the everyday.Readers will discover how: • Matching socks can teach you about search and hash tables • Planning trips to the store can demonstrate the value of stacks • Deciding what mu
Share with your friends. Casually leave copies in public places.”—GeekDad “Wonderfully digestible I can’t think of a better way to be taught or reintroduced to these fundamental notions of logical discourse. Twitter will be a more civil place.”—Buzzfeed “A great primer for anyone looking to understand logical fallacies and become a better debater. It helps that each logical fallacy is accompanied by a comic featuring a funny animal Check it out and pass it along to all the arguers—good and bad—in your life.”—io9 “Now more than ever, you need this illustrated guide to bad arguments, faulty logic, and silly rhetoric.”—Fast Company “Need a great coffee table book that looks like a kid’s book but will teach everyone around you
"An excellent introduction to many of the key ideas in computer science" according to Douglas McNally. The book presents various important topics from computer science through the lens of (albeit sometimes somewhat contrived) real-world problems. This book will not make the reader an expert in algorithms or teach them how to actually implement any particular algorithm in computer code, but it does elucidate the thought process behind solving some complex problems in a novice-friendly way. I especially like the emphasis the author puts on studying the performance of solutions as a function of input size - th. "As advertised" according to JAMES E ROBINSON. This book is an Easy read with insightful and practical application to get one thinking on and about process efficiency.. "Good book, covers interesting concepts well, but is perhaps not perfect for folks completely new to algorithms" according to Glenn A. Crocker. Like his previous book, Almossawi has a great idea for an approachable take on a complex topic but slightly misses the mark. The algorithmic concepts covered in Bad Choices are appropriate, but the emphasis is often more appropriate for computer science graduates than for what I think is the target audience. Use of log-log graphs is a reasonably good idea but makes all of the graphs confusing if you miss the single footnote where it's mentioned but not explained.Some of the stories (the necklace for descri
Ali Almossawi is the creator and maintainer of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, which has been read by 2.4 million readers and translated into 17 languages, 11 of which were done by volunteers from across the world. Almossawi formerly worked on the Firefox team at Mozilla and is an alumnus of MIT's Syste