A Monkey Experiment
To produce a hundred-word story
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1 min readMay 12, 2021
I wanted to test the theory that says given infinite amount of time, a monkey typing randomly on a computer keyboard would eventually produce works of Shakespeare.
I didn’t have infinite amount of time, so I reduced the goal of the experiment. How about producing a meaningful hundred-word story?
So I got a baby Orangutan and trained it to type on a computer and let it loose. The Orangutan kept typing well into its old age and died one day.
When I scanned the computer for anything that resembled a story, I found one.
You just finished reading it.
This story is based on the “Infinite Monkey” theorem and you can read more about it here:
