Apparently monkeys will not come up with the works of Shakespeare when provided a computer. What six of them did come up with was a lot of the letter S.
I love it.
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Apparently monkeys will not come up with the works of Shakespeare when provided a computer. What six of them did come up with was a lot of the letter S.
I love it.
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> But after a month, the Sulawesi crested macaques had only succeeded in partially
> destroying the machine, using it as a lavatory, and mostly typing the letter “s”.
Well, they might not have written anything by Shakespeare, but they’re on their way to forming a chapter of the Tea Party.
ha!
Science! (fist pump)
The results of the experiment formed part of a larger project developed by i-DAT.
They have been published in a limited edition book entitled Notes Towards The Complete Works of Shakespeare.
Does that include the full text produced? Because that’s what I want to see. I don’t accept this airy dismissal as ‘consisted mainly of the letter “s”‘ – I want to evaluate the results myself.
Actually, my cats have produced some rather more complex works on this very keyboard.
Oh, it does have the full text! How wonderful!
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I see definite progress. “Shakespeare” starts with “s”, you know.