[FRIAM] Emergent properties of bubble sort

Jon Zingale jonzingale at gmail.com
Sat Dec 27 14:44:16 EST 2025


Yeah, this is some good stuff. I was hoping someone might comment on it. It
reminds me a lot of the work that Dave Ackley was interested in regarding
the robustness/fault tolerance of algorithms like the bubble sort (vs the
brittleness of qsort, for instance).

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/beyond-efficiency/

Personally, It seems fruitful to study the *goal directedness* of an
algorithm in this behavioral psych kind of way. I would be interested to
hear what EricC or Nick thinks. I would be interested to hear what anyone
here thinks.
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