linkedin post 2019-05-26 04:37:13

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VARIATION ON THEOREM. "He wrote a computer program to see if the monkey's gibberish could match every work of Shakespeare. If there is a match from the gibberish to any portion of Shakespeare then the program will mark it matched and continue on. This isn't replicating the theorem exactly, but it is an interesting variation on it." https://lnkd.in/dnbrNQ5 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-26 04:39:01

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UNDER TWO MONTHS. "Jesse's program ran in the cloud on Amazon EC2 instances so he could create computational scale. He was able to start the project and match all 38 works of Shakespeare in 1.5 months. Over the course of the project, 7.5 trillion character groups were generated and checked out of 5.5 trillion possible combinations." https://lnkd.in/dnbrNQ5 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-26 04:40:38

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THE SMALL PRINT. "If he's running an evolutionary approach, holding on to successful guesses, then he'll get there," said Tim Harford, popular science writer and presenter of the BBC's radio show about numbers More or Less. And without those constraints? "Not a chance," said Dr Ian Stewart, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick." https://lnkd.in/dzCpVE8 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-26 04:42:27

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PRIOR FAILURES. "Earlier experiments have shown how difficult the task is. Wikipedia mentions a 2003 project that used computer programs to simulate a lot of monkeys randomly typing. After the equivalent of billions and billions and billions of monkey years the simulated apes had only produced part of a line from Henry IV, Part 2." https://lnkd.in/dzCpVE8 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-26 04:47:05

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GIANT STEP. "The monkeys accomplished their goal of recreating all 38 works of Shakespeare. The last work, The Taming Of The Shrew, was completed at 2 AM PST on October 6, 2011. This is the first time every work of Shakespeare has actually been randomly reproduced. Furthermore, this is the largest work ever randomly reproduced. It is one small step for a monkey, one giant leap for virtual primates everywhere." https://lnkd.in/djJFZTk View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-26 04:50:16

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CRITIQUE. Ian Stewart: "His calculations suggest it would take far, far longer than the age of the Universe for monkeys to completely randomly produce a flawless copy of the 3,695,990 or so characters in the works. "Along the way there would be untold numbers of attempts with one character wrong; even more with two wrong, and so on." he said. "Almost all other books, being shorter, would appear (countless times) before Shakespeare did." https://lnkd.in/dzCpVE8 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-26 04:52:46

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NOT A TEST OF THE THEOREM. "It's a neat way to test cloud computing, but it sheds little light on the Infinite Monkey Theorem, which is about getting all of Shakespeare in one go. Anderson's project is more like generating single characters at random, and every time you find one that's somewhere in Shakespeare you highlight it with a yellow pen." https://lnkd.in/dYDipGw View in LinkedIn
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