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I am your host, Michael Coval.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

So this great book came across my desk.

Algorithms to live by the computer science of human decisions.

Let me give a brief overview from the website.

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives,

helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings

of the human mind. All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise

to a particular set of problems. What should we do or leave undone? In a day or a lifetime,

how much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites

is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, too,

face the same constraints. So computer scientists have been grappling with their version of

such problems for decades, and the solutions they've found

have much to teach us.

Again, that is from the book, Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.

And my guest today is one of those authors, Brian Christian.

Oh, and by the way, if you invest or if you were a trader, it's a must read.

Now, on to Brian Christian.

How in the world did you even start to go down this path with your co-author? Really?

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