From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

The deep-learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep-learning networks can play poker better than professional poker players and defeat a world champion at Go. In this book, Terry Sejnowski explains how deep learning went from being an arcane academic field to a disruptive technology in the information economy.

"Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed causality - the study of cause and effect - on a firm scientific basis.

各メディアで紹介され、話題沸騰！　【新聞】　毎日新聞「今週の本棚」（2023年8月19日）評者：永江朗氏　読売新聞「本よみうり堂」（2023年9月3日）評者：堀川惠子氏

In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.

身体性に結び付けられた「女らしさ」ゆえにケアを担わされてきた女性たちは、自身の経験を語る言葉を奪われ、言葉を発したとしても傾聴に値しないお喋りとして扱われてきた。

「新しい歴史教科書をつくる会」の歴史教科書の登場が，アジア各地で大きな反発を招いた．その問題点は日本の植民地支配に関する記述である．

世界暦と黙示的文学が終末意識を突き動かすとき，ヨーロッパの歴史は大きく躍動した．古代末期に源流をもつ地中海＝ヨーロッパの歴史を，人びとを駆動し「近代」をも産み落とした〈力〉の真相とともに探究する．

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

英語の達人をめざすなら、類義語との違い、構文や文脈、共起語などの知識に支えられた高い語彙力が不可欠だ。記憶や学習のしくみを考えれば、多読や多聴は語彙力向上には向かない。