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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

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

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

INTACT FUNCTIONALITY. "Even for the most sophisticated metamorphic viruses, the specific functionality and overall behavior of the virus remain intact." https://lnkd.in/dGC6A7c View in LinkedIn

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

ANDERSON DATA. "The monkeys ran 180,000,000,000 character groups a day. An average iteration lasted 30 minutes 33 seconds and ran 5,000,000,000 character groups. The monkeys found 1,982,507 distinct character groups and those character groups were found 3,788,175 times for a ratio of 1.8718555. The monkeys ran 7,445,912,000,000 total character groups out of the 5,429,503,678,976 possible combinations for a ratio of 1.3713." https://lnkd.in/djJFZTk View in LinkedIn

ANDERSON METHOD. "Each sequence is nine characters long and each is checked to see if that string of characters appears anywhere in the works of Shakespeare. If not, it is discarded. If it does match then progress has been made towards re-creating the works of the Bard. To get a sense of the scale of the project, there are about 5.5 trillion different combinations of any nine characters from the English alphabet." https://lnkd.in/dzCpVE8 View in LinkedIn

BIG NUMBERS. "Or to put it another way, to have a one in a trillion chance to type out Hamlet we would need another 10(360,641) Universes full of monkeys." https://lnkd.in/dnbrNQ5 View in LinkedIn

NEITHER SOLO NOR PARALLEL. "The project that attracted all the attention did neither of these. It was the brainchild of programmer Jesse Anderson, who wanted to test some software for ‘cloud computing', where many individuals use cheap notepads as terminals, and the actual computation is done by vast banks of servers located in a gigantic warehouse somewhere in Kansas or wherever. So he wrote short programs to produce random 9-character sequences, e-mailed to a central repository in the cloud." https://lnkd.in/dYDipGw View in LinkedIn

PARALLEL TYPING. "Alternatively, a comparably large number of monkeys could all type in parallel. One of them would produce the entire text word for word straight away." https://lnkd.in/dYDipGw View in LinkedIn