Monkey Shakespeare Simulator

[Thomas Paul]

How long will it take a bunch of monkeys to write a Shakespeare play?
http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/index.html

[Al Newman]

Oh, I thought this was a political thread. Another Euro banging on about GeeDub's monkey-like qualities.

[Alan Labout]

Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
[QB]How long will it take a bunch of monkeys to write a Shakespeare play?
QB]

Well, if you believe in Darwin's Theory of Evolution, a monkey already did...

[HS Thomas]

Serious monkey business.
Infinite+Monkey+Theorem
"This theorem asserts nothing about the intelligence of the one random monkey that eventually comes up with the script (and note that the mob will also type out all the possible *incorrect* versions of Hamlet). It may be referred to semi-seriously when justifying a brute force method; the implication is that, with enough resources thrown at it, any technical challenge becomes a one-banana problem."

RFC 2795 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)

In addition, it would be a waste of resources if such a sizable
effort only focused on Shakespeare. With an infinite number of
monkeys at work, it is also equally likely that a monkey could
produce a document that describes how to end world poverty, cure
disease, or most importantly, write a good situation comedy for
television [4]. Such an environment would be ripe for innovation
and, with the proper technical design, could be effectively utilized
to "make the world a whole lot brighter" [5].
The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) is an experimental set of
protocols that specifies how monkey transcripts may be collected,
transferred, and reviewed for either historical accuracy (in the case
of Shakespearean works) or innovation (in the case of new works). It
also provides a basic communications framework for performing normal
monkey maintenance.

[ December 01, 2003: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]

[Thomas Paul]

IMPS is an extremely dangerous thing! In the hands of the wrong people, IMPS could be used to develop plans to build an atomic bomb.
However, it might be interesting to develop a Java interface for IMPS. Perhaps we can have it available for the 4th anniversary of the IMPS RFC.

[SJ Adnams]

http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/index.html

I think they have failed to realise that the space bar on a typewriter is bigger than the other keys, so will be more likely pressed (stepped on?) than the others...

[HS Thomas]

Somewhere I read that if you have a finite number of outcomes and an infinite number of trials you are bound to get the results you are looking for.

The Bible (or Torah) Code
The Bible (or Torah) Code is a code alleged embedded in the Bible by God. The code is revealed by searching for equidistant letter sequences (ELS). For example, start with any letter ("L") and read every nth letter ("N") thereafter in the book, not counting spaces. If an entire book such as Genesis is searched, the result is a long string of letters. Using different values for L and N, one can generate many strings of letters. Imagine wrapping the string of letters around a cylinder in such a way that all the letters can be displayed. Flatten the cylinder to reveal several rows with columns of equal length, except perhaps the last column, which might be shorter than all the rest. Now search for meaningful names in proximity to dates. Search horizontally, vertically, diagonally, any which way. A group of Israeli mathematicians did just this and claimed that when they searched for names in close proximity to birth or death dates (as published in the Encyclopedia of Great Men in Israel) they found many matches, for example, the date of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin was in close proximity to letters spelling out his name.. Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg (1994) published their findings under the title of "On Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis." The editor of the journal commented:

Drosnin once said, "When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby-Dick, I'll believe them." McKay promptly produced an ELS analysis of Moby-Dick predicting not only Indira Ghandi's assassination, but the assassinations of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, and Yitzhak Rabin, as well as the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Mathematician David Thomas did an ELS on Genesis and found the words "code" and "bogus" close together not once but 60 times. What are the odds of that happening? Thomas also did an ELS analysis on Drosnin's Bible Code II: The Countdown (2002) and found the message "The Bible Code is a silly, dumb, fake, false, evil, nasty, dismal fraud and snake-oil hoax."* Does this mean that God put in a code to reveal that there is no code?

The Bible or Torah Code

[Sheila Wallace]

About as long as it takes to write a software application
http://www.newtechusa.com/PPI/main.asp

[Thomas Paul]

I can't seem to get past 8 letters.

[Richard Hawkes]

Originally posted by Simon Lee:
I think they have failed to realise that the space bar on a typewriter is bigger than the other keys, so will be more likely pressed (stepped on?) than the others...
Someone should design a keyboard where the keys get larger or smaller depending on frequency of use