Friday, May 09, 2003
Yahoo! News - Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare
Yahoo! News - Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare LONDON - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess.
Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.
"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language." This should have made me day, and yet I can't figure out what's more depressing---that this study was done, or that it got reported on.
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