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A Few Million Monkeys Finish Recreating Shakespeare's Works

Posted by timothy on from the everything-loops-back-to-stephen-falken dept.

eljefe6a writes "The Million Monkeys project has finished every work of Shakespeare. The last work was The Taming of the Shrew (insert shrewish joke here), which finished on October 6. I give my thoughts on going viral. If this article about going viral goes viral, it will create an infinite loop that will bring about the destruction of the world. The project source is released, too."

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  1. It's a cheat. by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This doesn't come even remotely close to the real situation postulated in the Million Monkeys concept.

    It proves nothing, and isn't even very good as a publicity stunt.

    1. Re:It's a cheat. by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yes, we hashed through all this last time. The "monkeys" generate 9 character blocks of random letters, then that chunk of text is fitted wherever it can be into the actual works of Shakespeare. And as I said last time around, it would be vastly more efficient, and just as pointless, to generate random SINGLE characters and fit those into works of Shakespeare instead.

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    2. Re:It's a cheat. by icebike · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Then, it's not really monkeys. It's more of monkeys with an oracle. That oracle thing made a whole world of difference.

      The guy who set this up has almost as much intelligence as a monkey but is a whole lot more intellectually dishonest much more of a publicity whore.

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  2. Re:A million monkeys can complete Shakespeare... by BitZtream · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, these couldn't.

    By any normal persons definition, these monkeys also never actually produced any of Shakespeare's works either. They basically produced the right number of As, Bs, Cs, ect ... and then the guy running the project rearranged them into the right order and says the monkeys wrote shakespeare!

    I guess if you count the guy who is reassembling the letters as a monkey, then its probably true that 1 million virtual monkeys and 1 human monkey could do it, though I'm guessing he probably fucked up the reassembly as well considering everything else about this 'project'.

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  3. It's also to world class stupid by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the set up for this is that it they just emit 9 character random strings and cross off anything that matches. Emit 8 character ones and it's 26 times easier. So why not just emit 1 character strings.
    perl -e 'print "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" '

    there done.
     

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