The Book of Why The Book of Why

The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect

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Publisher Description

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence

"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

GENRE
Computers & Internet
RELEASED
2018
May 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
432
Pages
PUBLISHER
Basic Books
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
32.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Music carnivore ,

Great book about causal inference

This was a great book about causal inference. My statistics degree definitely helped me to understand the book, but I think someone without a math background may also benefit if they’re willing to skim past the equations

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