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Choose Your Own Adventure

I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books growing up. A childhood friend had almost an entire bookcase of these. Near the front door, on the side of the staircase, a short, squat bookcase, with an entire shelf dedicated to these gems.

Posted 2019-11-21 | Tags: nostalgia, algorithms, books | 313 words

Explore vs. Exploit

I recently started listening to the audio book Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, and it has been very good. There are a few points that stuck out to me:Tradeoffs: In life, just like in computer science, it's all...

Posted 2017-01-21 | Tags: computerscience, algorithms | 718 words