[hinkley]

The first time I saw this phrase I thought it was going to describe something like software branch prediction, speculative execution, self tuning algorithms, or heck even Bloom filters or hyperloglog. That was a direction my first mentor and I used to talk about and it’s one of my regrets that I never did much in that arena.

My brain wants this term to mean something else and I become momentarily excited every time this topic gets reposted.

[ssivark]

You might find this book very interesting: https://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Data-Structures-Algorit...

I’m unrelated to the author; just came across the book on a Reddit discussion and found it interesting. There aren’t too many (collected) discussions of these kinds of topics, AFAIK.

[dehrmann]

Might also be worth reading into fuzzy logic.