Posted on 09/12/2016 7:45:27 PM PDT by sparklite2
It is often said that, given an infinite amount of time, monkeys hitting random keys on a typewriter will eventually type the works of Shakespeare.
While it may seem far fetched, an unusual experiment has achieved the fabled task.
To illustrate how paralysed people can type using a device called a ‘brain-computer interface’, scientists used monkeys to show how it can be done. Two rhesus macaque monkeys (stock picture) typed a passage from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as well as portions of the New York Times, at 12 words per minute.
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Over time, we have had pretty close to an infinite number of monkeys, and not one of them has written so much as a Cliff Note on Shakespeare.................
The Note family used to live near here, I went to school with Cliff.
They were all short, IIRC.........................
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