The article's author's point was the feasibility and reasonableness of testing 4 Billion entities (full 32-bit range). The linked sci-fi story is about testing

The article's author's point was the feasibility and reasonableness of testing 4 Billion entities (full 32-bit range). The linked sci-fi story is about testing 9 Billion entities (names of god in a given alphabet). The relevancy is that a sci-fi author thought about applying this method over 60 years ago, and at the time it seemed like an insurmountable task for humans that could be solved with massive computers. With the unexpected consequence of ending the universe. And now anyone can do this on their desktop.