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…Super cool. Mine is a quick one this week. A new book that came out recently that I read called Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. This is a super fun book, quick read. It’s about fundamental computer science algorithms like searching and sorting and scheduling and optimal stopping that you learn about in your intro to CS classes in college or in high school. But then about like what those algorithms are for people who aren’t CS folks, but how to apply them to your life and it’s super cool. It’s like how do you sort your closet based on optimal sorting algorithms to how should you handle your email based on scheduling algorithms to all sorts of stuff, how should you decide when you found the right person to marry based on optimal stopping problems. It’s very techy but written from a humanities perspective, so I enjoyed it quite a bit. I think I’ve got one. I wish I have the time to read books now. I have two kids under 3, so those days are– I mean, I assume they’ll come back. You need optimization algorithms.…

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