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Bitwise: A Life in Code

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Bitwise: A Life in Code

An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are
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Bitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer lanÂguages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbachâ€™s imagination. With a philosoÂpherâ€™s sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the proÂgramming language Logo on the Apple IIe, his adventures in early text-based video games, his education as an engineer, and his contribuÂtions to instant messaging technology develÂoped for Microsoft and the servers powering Googleâ€™s data stores. A lifelong student of the systems that shape our livesâ€”from the psyÂchiatric taxonomy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual to how Facebook tracks and profiles its usersâ€”Auerbach reflects on how he has experienced the algorithms that taxonomize human speech, knowledge, and behavior and that compel us to do the same.
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Into this exquisitely crafted, wide-ranging memoir of a life spent with code, Auerbach has woven an eye-opening and searing examinaÂtion of the inescapable ways in which algoÂrithms 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 maÂchine, Auerbach argues, we willingly erase our nuances and our idiosyncrasiesâ€”precisely the things that make us human.

Country	USA
Author	David Auerbach
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781101871294
ISBN	9781101871294
Label	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	304
PublicationDate	2018-08-28
Publisher	Pantheon
ReleaseDate	2018-08-28
Studio	Pantheon

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