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Don't diss monte carlo.

10000000000 random guesses can be way faster than a clever calculation.

And maybe there is no clever calculation.



Agreed, if you aren't using Monte Carlo methods in your algorithms then your problem probably isn't hard enough, or your solutions are fragile to variance.




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