Fantastic article. Probabilistic algorithm design is fascinating to me because it's all about making sure that the system behaves as expected, rather than every

Fantastic article. Probabilistic algorithm design is fascinating to me because it's all about making sure that the system behaves as expected, rather than every individual operation being perfect. Implementing most random algorithms in practise strongly reminds me of studies of populations & behaviours of organic life (which is much better than the rube goldberg/spaghetti factories which sometimes arise as "solutions" to complex problems). Another interesting related field is Dave Ackley's Robustness-First Computing model[1], which operates with every atomic computational cell having some elements of randomness built in. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=helScS3coAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=helScS3coAE