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My guest today is Brian Christian, an American non-fiction author, poet, programmer and researcher, best known for the two bestselling books The Most Human Human (2011)\\xa0and Algorithms to Live By (2016).

The topic is his book Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Optimal stopping
• What is an algorithm
• Process vs. Outcome
• The explore, exploit trade off
• The multi-arm bandit problem
• Win stay, lose shift
• Regret minimization framework
• Frequency and intensity of mistakes related to age
• Upper confidence bound algorithm
• Threading

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