Monkeys (2024)

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What is it called when you put 1000 monkeys at 1000 typewriters hoping they will produce a great work? ›

The infinite monkey theorem states that if you let a monkey hit the keys of a typewriter at random an infinite amount of times, eventually the monkey will type out the entire works of Shakespeare.

Now the common idea is that if you took monkeys - let them be eternally existing monkeys on an eternally existing typewriter - if they went on randomly typing for eternal time, they would eventually have to write out the works of Shakespeare. A lot of people think that's true, but it isn't actually true at all.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Ignoring punctuation, spacing, and capitalization, a monkey typing letters uniformly at random has one chance in 26 of correctly typing the first letter of Hamlet. It has one chance in 676 (26 times 26) of typ- ing the first two letters.

In the short story "The Mangler" by Stephen King, one character tells another that if 700 monkeys typed for 700 years, one of them would produce the works of Shakespeare.

The hundredth monkey effect is an esoteric idea claiming that a new behavior or idea is spread rapidly by unexplained means from one group to all related groups once a critical number of members of one group exhibit the new behavior or acknowledge the new idea.

The 7 Monkeys is a way of enabling students to learn a concept, process or idea independently with minimal teacher input. Each 'monkey' is a different activity that the students undertake to support their learning. The end point is studentts answering a question with a piece of extended writing.

Infinity is not a real number; you cannot perform operations on it like you can on real numbers. 1/infinity is undefined; it makes as much sense as saying 1/cat. That being said, there is a way to have an event that has zero probability but is still possible.

Nim's longest "sentence" was the 16-word-long "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."

5 monkeys were placed in a cage as part of an experiment.

Every time a monkey tried to climb the ladder, the experimenter sprayed all of the monkeys with icy water. Eventually, each time a monkey started to climb the ladder, the other ones pulled him off and beat him up so they could avoid the icy spray.

What is the controversial monkey experiment? ›

Harlow's experiments were ethically controversial; they included creating inanimate wire and wood surrogate "mothers" for the rhesus infants. Each infant became attached to its particular mother, recognizing its unique face.

If you put bananas and money in front of monkeys, monkeys will choose bananas because monkeys do not know that money can buy a lot of bananas. In reality, if you offer a job and business to people, they would choose job because most people do not know that business can bring more money than wages.

They all expand on the theory […] that if an infinite number of monkeys were left to bang on an infinite number of typewriters, sooner or later they would accidentally reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare (or even just one of his sonnets)."

Chimpanzees are known to be the animal with the highest IQ.

Can chimpanzees be taught to read and write? Well, no. Despite the old saw about a million chimps with a million typewriters, they cannot read and write as most humans do.

They all expand on the theory […] that if an infinite number of monkeys were left to bang on an infinite number of typewriters, sooner or later they would accidentally reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare (or even just one of his sonnets)."

The Monkey Mother Experiment

Harlow removed young monkeys from their natural mothers a few hours after birth and left them to be "raised" by these mother surrogates. The experiment demonstrated that the baby monkeys spent significantly more time with their cloth mother than with their wire mother.

The idea behind this behavior is that people prefer to gamble when the outcome is framed as a bonus than when it's framed as a loss, even when the payoffs for either outcome are identical. To test for this bias in capuchins, the researchers positioned two types of traders in the monkey marketplace.

Researchers trained the monkeys to exchange small metal tokens for food. They were put in a makeshift tiny market where experimenters would offer different foods at different prices. One of those trading with monkeys was Laurie Santos, a professor of cognitive science and psychology at Yale University.