Rules : a short history of what we live by /
"We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day and the school year, direct the ebb and flow of traffic on the roads, dictate who can be married to whom and how, place the fork to the right or the left of the...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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| Col·lecció: | Lawrence Stone lectures.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv27qzsfn |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction. The hidden history of rules
- Ancient rules : straightedges, models, and laws
- The rules of art : head and hand united
- Algorithms before mechanical calculation
- Algorithmic intelligence in the age of calculating machines
- Rules and regulations
- Natural laws and laws of nature
- Bending and breaking rules
- Epilogue. More honored in the breach.