In which I ramble about randomness and random algorithms. Now with theme music! Paper Cuts planned reading: Habitability and Piecemeal Growth, in <a href="https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf">Patterns of Software</a> (just pages 7–16 of the book, which is pages 25-32 of the PDF)Selected links:* <a href="https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf">SIEVE cache replacement algorithm</a> * <a href="https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html">Power of two random choices</a> * <a href="https://brooker.co.za/blog/">Marc Brooker's blog</a> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest">Random forests</a> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%E2%80%93min_sketch">Count Min Sketch</a> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method">Monte Carlo Simulation</a> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_projection">Random projection</a> * <a href="https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest">T-Digest</a> * <a href="https://github.com/golang/go/commit/04903476fe6a1bba4ed751f5e234bccb5a651a9b">The fix for my embarrassing compiler bug</a>

Substantive, in-depth technical conversations about software engineering (broadly construed).