A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare

First time accepted submitter eljefe6a writes "On September 23 at 2:30 PST the A Million Amazonian Monkeys project successfully recreated A Lover's Complaint. This is the first time a work of Shakespeare has actually been randomly reproduced. It is one small step for a monkey, one giant leap for virtual primates everywhere. From the article: 'For this project, I used Hadoop, Amazon EC2, and Ubuntu Linux. Since I don’t have real monkeys, I have to create fake Amazonian Map Monkeys. The Map Monkeys create random data in ASCII between a and z. It uses Sean Luke’s Mersenne Twister to make sure I have fast, random, well behaved monkeys. Once the monkey’s output is mapped, it is passed to the reducer which runs the characters through a Bloom Field membership test. If the monkey output passes the membership test, the Shakespearean works are checked using a string comparison. If that passes, a genius monkey has written 9 characters of Shakespeare. The source material is all of Shakespeare’s works as taken from Project Gutenberg.'"

Comments

Oblig. Simpsons

[Brett Buck]

"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times! Stupid monkeys!" {strikes them with script...}

Re:I did think of it.

[tunapez]

I almost meant to say that exact same thing!

Re:Huh?

[lokedhs]

I also doesn't reproduce Shakespeare in its original Klingon...