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Incredible stochastic algorithm, gets more reliable the larger your input, incredibly fast, trivial to implement and deterministic on its inputs (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

The output is not the output of the algorithm, it's the output of the unit test.

95% of numbers up to that point at not prime. Testing the algorithm that only says "not prime" is therefore correct 95% of the time. The joke is that, similar to AI, the algorithm is being presented as a useful tool because it's correct often but not always.