“The same challenge also appears in an even more fraught setting: dating. Optimal stopping is the science of serial monogamy. Simple algorithms… — Brian Christian Every day Copy Share Image
“Information, defined intuitively and informally, might be something like 'uncertainty's antidote.' This turns out also to be the formal definition- the amount… — Brian Christian Data Copy Share Image
“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy,… — Brian Christian Checks Copy Share Image
“Searcher, there is no road. We make the road by walking.” — Brian Christian Journey Copy Share Image
“We can hope to be fortunate—but we should strive to be wise.” — Brian Christian Hope Copy Share Image
“Learning self-control is important, but it’s equally important to grow up in an environment where adults are consistently present and trustworthy.” — Brian Christian Discipline Copy Share Image
“One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.” — Brian Christian Engineering Copy Share Image
“The big picture is all you should be worrying about in the beginning” — Brian Christian Big picture Copy Share Image
“But any distrust regarding the analogy-based approach would soon vanish: at IBM, Kirkpatrick and Gelatt’s simulated annealing algorithms started making better chip… — Brian Christian Sand Time Copy Share Image
“And it’s actually rational to emphasize exploration—the new rather than the best, the exciting rather than the safe, the random rather than… — Brian Christian Life Copy Share Image
“Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.” — Brian Christian Computer science Copy Share Image
“machine-learning tasks suggests that we can make better decisions by deliberately thinking and doing less” — Brian Christian Decision making Copy Share Image
“When the future is foggy, it turns out you don’t need a calendar—just a to-do list.” — Brian Christian Time Copy Share Image
“the number of robberies you should carry out is roughly equal to the chance you get away, divided by the chance you… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking… — Brian Christian Uc berkeley Copy Share Image
“How do we connect meaningfully with each other, as meaningfully as possible, within the limits of language and time? How does empathy… — Brian Christian Time Copy Share Image
“One of the implicit principles of computer science, as odd as it may sound, is that computation is bad: the underlying directive… — Brian Christian Computer science Copy Share Image
“Computer scientists would call this a “ping attack” or a “denial of service” attack: give a system an overwhelming number of trivial… — Brian Christian Important things Copy Share Image
“high-demand items are placed in a different area, more quickly accessible than the rest. That area is Amazon’s cache.” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“And it suggests, perhaps, reversing the equation, that if we want to gain the most insight into a person, we should ask… — Brian Christian Conversation Copy Share Image
“If changing strategies doesn’t help, you can try to change the game. And if that’s not possible, you can at least exercise… — Brian Christian Game-theory Copy Share Image
“To see what happens in the real world when an information cascade takes over, and the bidders have almost nothing but one… — Brian Christian Real world Copy Share Image
