# What Algorithms Want

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- Book: [What Algorithms Want](https://www.bookquiver.com/ed-finn/what-algorithms-want) ([What Algorithms Want.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ed-finn/what-algorithms-want.md))
- Authors: [Ed Finn](https://www.bookquiver.com/ed-finn)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6253-604-2
- Pages: 266
- Published: 2018-10-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...