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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

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