This book is a great orientation to the worldscience of quantification the foundation for skills required of an actuary

This book is a great orientation to the worldscience of quantification the foundation for skills required of an actuary  Read Less

An excellent well exampled book with great organization and applications to daily life

An excellent well exampled book with great organization and applications to daily life  Read Less

It looks at problems like organizing a closet searching for a parking space and even the decision of committing to a long term ...  Read More

It looks at problems like organizing a closet searching for a parking space and even the decision of committing to a long term partner in terms of optimizing process and the tradeoffs at play  Read Less

Randomness is celebrated as a potential escape from the trap of overanalysis and a potential path towards “good enough” solutions

Randomness is celebrated as a potential escape from the trap of overanalysis and a potential path towards “good enough” solutions  Read Less

This means that the pay off such random behaviour is that sometimes we may accidentally hit on a beneficial behaviour but the c...  Read More

This means that the pay off such random behaviour is that sometimes we may accidentally hit on a beneficial behaviour but the cost is that sometimes we may hit on an unbeneficial behaviour that we persist with as seen with panic buyers who purchase large amounts of worthless items without really knowing why  Read Less

The book was a good price on amazon

The book was a good price on amazon  Read Less

It is packed with realworld examples and is written in a clear concise style

It is packed with realworld examples and is written in a clear concise style  Read Less

In our lives we face many choices very similar to choices computers have to make and the same algorithms can be used to move ahead

In our lives we face many choices very similar to choices computers have to make and the same algorithms can be used to move ahead  Read Less

Anyone that keeps a messy closet or desk will enjoy their endorsement as a rational choice of choosing “search” as a better alg...  Read More

Anyone that keeps a messy closet or desk will enjoy their endorsement as a rational choice of choosing “search” as a better algorithm than “sorting” assuming you can set aside frequently used items in an easily accessible cache  Read Less

The likes some of the theories made sense the 37 concept before making a decision the poker player needs to know how good he is...  Read More

The likes some of the theories made sense the 37 concept before making a decision the poker player needs to know how good he is and even more importantly how good is his competition concept like if you can’t explain simply you don’t understand this holds true for the authors many times it went over my head they examples of problems the traveling salesmen secretary’s problem and one arm bandit i like the bezos 80 year theory once i’m 80 will i regret not starting amazon  Read Less