In which case, you could view the image even better if you just changed the whole backdrop to gray, instead of just random parts of it. This would correspond to the "using the same knowledge to produce a superior algorithm" part of the article.
As I understood it, the article specifically did not state that you can't ever improve a deterministic algorithm by adding randomness - only that this is a sign that you algorithm is crap, not that the problem fundamentally requires randomness. There should always exist a different deterministic algorithm w... (read more)
In which case, you could view the image even better if you just changed the whole backdrop to gray, instead of just random parts of it. This would correspond to the "using the same knowledge to produce a superior algorithm" part of the article.
As I understood it, the article specifically did not state that you can't ever improve a deterministic algorithm by adding randomness - only that this is a sign that you algorithm is crap, not that the problem fundamentally requires randomness. There should always exist a different deterministic algorithm w... (read more)