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Your applications already sit upon a mountain of non-determinism.

A typical web app runs against a database with a genetic query optimizer, on top of a VM with a concurrent generational GC, sharing virtual memory with a dozen other processes, arranged in a massive pyramid of caches, which are competing for CPU time from a multi-core monstrosity of a data-flow engine.

The sooner we as programmers embrace stochastic methods, the better.



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