Very clear explanation! There's also a famous answer on SO that goes into collisions and has similar visual maps for viewing how random the hashing distribution

Very clear explanation! There's also a famous answer on SO that goes into collisions and has similar visual maps for viewing how random the hashing distributions are for a variety of different non-cryptographic hashing algorithms (top answer): https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49550/which-hashing-algorithm-is-best-for-uniqueness-and-speed https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4955...