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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Condition:Good ” Guantánamo BayWhat should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists have been grappling with similar problems for decades. And the solutions theyve found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, Brian