Bitwise: A Life in Code

Bitwise (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are Bitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer languages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbachs imagination. With a philosophers sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the programming language Logo on the Apple IIe, his adventures in early text-based video games, his education as an engineer, and his contributions to instant messaging technology developed for Microsoft and the servers powering Googles data stores. A lifelong student of the systems that shape our livesfrom the psychiatric taxonomy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual to how Facebook tracks and profiles its usersAuerbach reflects on how he has experienced the algorithms that taxonomize human speech, knowledge, and behavior and that compel us to do the same. Into this exquisitely crafted, wide-ranging memoir of a life spent with code, Auerbach has woven an eye-opening and searing examination of the inescapable ways in which algorithms have both standardized and coarsened our lives. As we engineer ever more intricate technology to translate our experiences and narrow the gap that divides us from the machine, Auerbach argues, we willingly erase our nuances and our idiosyncrasiesprecisely the things that make us human. "[A] . memoir and . polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781101972144

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