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Ben Recht Releases The Irrational Decision Book
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Ben Recht releases a new book, The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us, which comes out tomorrow. The book presents an opinionated, informed examination of optimization, inference, and the purposes that computational decision-making serves, drawing on Recht's expertise. It signals a practitioner's critique of objective selection and societal trade-offs in algorithm design.
Key Points
- 1Releases book 'The Irrational Decision' tomorrow, examining how computers make decisions via optimization.
- 2Highlights significance: critiques optimization's purposes, trade-offs, and who benefits from algorithmic choices.
- 3Advises practitioners to reevaluate objective selection, constraints, and societal impacts in model development.
Scoring Rationale
Authoritative, timely book release offering practitioner-relevant critique; impact limited by brief promotional coverage and lack of detailed excerpts.
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