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2026-08-22
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Complexity
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12 min read
Randomized Algorithms — Why Rolling Dice Makes Things Faster
Why does adding randomness make an algorithm faster? We build up quicksort with a random pivot, the one-sided error of Bloom filters, and the Monte Carlo / Las Vegas split from zero background — ending with the ways mishandled randomness actually breaks systems in production.