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Author:  Spreadie [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15060310
Author:  Fogmeister [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare
This made me LOL...

Quote:
Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six crested macaques. After a month the monkeys had produced five pages of the letter "S" and had broken the keyboard.


:lol:
Author:  HeatherKay [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare
Monkeys are not apes, even virtual ones.

:roll:
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare
Especially the ones that run libraries.

However IRC macaques are monkeys, and the oft-quoted phrase does mention monkeys rather than apes...

Jon
Author:  HeatherKay [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare
jonbwfc wrote:
However IRC macaques are monkeys, and the oft-quoted phrase does mention monkeys rather than apes...


Which was rather my point. The article mentions ape and monkey as if they're interchangeable.

Sorry. Pedantic hat on today. ;)
Author:  adidan [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare
jonbwfc wrote:
Especially the ones that run libraries.

My mum works in a library.

* shakes fist *

:D
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 6:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare
adidan wrote:
jonbwfc wrote:
Especially the ones that run libraries.

My mum works in a library.

* shakes fist *

:D

Is that why you have a tail and like bananas? ;)
Author:  lumbthelesser [ Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare
Quote:
Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six crested macaques. After a month the monkeys had produced five pages of the letter "S" and had broken the keyboard.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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