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Already in the first few lines of the article, there's a reference to a post-1998 date, so I started wondering about the veracity of the (1998). There's no clear reference to the original publication date, buy plenty of references to dates much later - the copyright notice says 2001-2014.

But, lo and behold: https://web.archive.org/web/19980206223800/http://norvig.com...

It's a very different article, but at the core, it's the very same idea. Pretty fascinating that it apparently has been "ghost-edited" to stay current.