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"THE INFINITE MONKEY THEOREM states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times." https://lnkd.in/dGAedTt View in LinkedIn

HARD CHOICE. "The infinite monkey theorem is a bar in Austin, but it is also a very cool mathematical theorem that deals with very big numbers." https://lnkd.in/dnbrNQ5 View in LinkedIn

LAUGHINGLY IMPROBABLE. "The combinatorial stringing together of all of the steps between LECA and Macropus rufus (the red kangaroo), Trichomonas vaginalis, or Mozart is, indeed, laughably improbable. Surely, if life’s tape was rewound, none of these would recur." (LECA = Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor). https://lnkd.in/d6GwkCt View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend alone deals with the humorous but deadly serious Infinite Monkey Theorem. You know the one: given an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, and infinite time, could they write (by accident) the works of the Bard? Nice image, with a stochastic heart. Rather like Fred Hoyle’s question of the improbability that whirlwind in a Boeing plane junkyard is able to assemble a new plane. View in LinkedIn

SIX MONKEY TRIAL. "Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six crested macaques. After a month the monkeys had produced five pages of the letter "S" and had broken the keyboard." https://lnkd.in/dzCpVE8 View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL BIOCIDE. "In the event that a behavioral signature is developed for the virus, the entire population, including the cryptic variants, is affected equally. In this case, the functional/behavioral uniformity of the virus population would force all of it to extinction by the countermeasure." https://lnkd.in/dGC6A7c View in LinkedIn

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

MALWARE INHERITABLE CHANGES. "While there are examples of functional variation that have occurred by chance (reviewed below in support of our hypothesis) there are no examples of computer malware that exhibits intentional functional change between generations. In the absence of functional variation, differential fitness will never be realized in computer viruses since the reproductive success of offspring remains unchanged." https://lnkd.in/dGC6A7c View in LinkedIn

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

MORE NEEDED. "Signature obfuscation, or as we will refer to it here as “cryptic variation”, will not allow for the discovery of new functionality. What true Darwinian evolution can accomplish is vastly different, because it is the process responsible for the de novo generation of all of the complexity of life." https://lnkd.in/dGC6A7c View in LinkedIn