Award winning computer scientist, Leslie Valiant presents a masterful synthesis of learning and evolution to show how both individually and collectively we not only survive, but prosper in a world as complex as our own. The key is probably approximately correct algorithms, a concept Valiant developed to explain how effective behavior can be learned.

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Author: Leslie Valiant
Publisher: Basic Books
Date: June 20, 2013
Pages: 624
ISBN: 978-0465032710

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