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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.

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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 merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In this book, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm--in practical terms, "a method for solving a problem"--has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking. Finn argues that the algorithm deploys concepts from the idealized space of computation in a messy reality, with unpredictable and sometimes fascinating results. Drawing on sources that range from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash to Diderot's Encyclop die , from Adam Smith to the Star Trek computer, Finn explores the gap between theoretical ideas and pragmatic instructions. He examines the development of intelligent assistants like Siri, the rise of algorithmic aesthetics at Netflix, Ian Bogost's satiric Facebook game Cow Clicker , and the revolutionary economics of Bitcoin. He describes Google's goal of anticipating our questions, Uber's cartoon maps and black box accounting, and what Facebook tells us about programmable value, among other things. If we want to understand the gap between abstraction and messy reality, Finn argues, we need to build a model of "algorithmic reading" and scholarship that attends to process, spearheading a new experimental humanities.

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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262536048
ISBN-13
9780262536042
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24038735326

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Author
Ed Finn
Publication Name
What Algorithms Want : Imagination in the Age of Computing
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
266 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hm851.F5565 2018
Reviews
---- Ed Finn's What Algorithms Want shows us just how powerful computer programs and their helpers actually are, and the book needs no recourse to science fiction. -- Los Angeles Review of Books --, Ed Finn's What Algorithms Want shows us just how powerful computer programs and their helpers actually are, and the book needs no recourse to science fiction.
Copyright Date
2017
Topic
Programming / Algorithms, Social Aspects / General, Popular Culture, Algebra / General, Information Technology
Lccn
2016-030924
Dewey Decimal
303.48/34
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers, Mathematics, Social Science

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