Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare. 26 September 2011Last updated at 12:31 Practical experiments show monkeys have poor keyboard skills A few million virtual monkeys are close to re-creating the complete works of Shakespeare by randomly mashing keys on virtual typewriters.
A running total of how well they are doing shows that the re-creation is 99.990% complete. The first single work to be completed was the poem A Lover's Complaint. Set up by US programmer Jesse Anderson the project co-ordinates the virtual monkeys sitting on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing system via a home PC. Mr Anderson said he started the project as a way to get to know the Hadoop programming tool better and to put Amazon's web services to the test. It is also a practical test of the thought experiment that wonders whether an infinite number of monkeys pounding on an infinite number of typewriters would be able to produce Shakespeare's works by accident. Mr Anderson's virtual monkeys are small computer programs uploaded to Amazon servers. Why Are Kids in Jail? U.S. safer 10 years after 9/11, but at what cost? JUSTICE at HERSHEYS. Breakover: Alice Manning's Story Kicks Off HuffPost Video Series.
When we introduced Breakover earlier this month -- The Huffington Post video series documenting female readers' extraordinary life transformations -- we knew we'd get some great stories.
But we were completely unprepared for the phenomenal response. Hundreds of women wrote about reinvention after heartbreak, job loss, bankruptcy, and other life-changing seismic shifts. Thanks to this tremendous outpouring, we're thrilled to present our first installment of the Breakover series here. "Breakover: Alice Manning," traces the remarkable journey of a Santa Monica, California-based actress and mother of four who faced the unthinkable and changed course in the darkest period of her life. We're hoping it will move you as much as it moved us, and perhaps inspire you to begin a breakover of your own. Want to see your story of amazing personal reinvention featured in a future Breakover video? Greenpeace: 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance. Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements.
So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination. Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans “Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire?”
Among 18- to 34-years-olds, 76 percent of them said no. Yet despite their lack of confidence in the availability of Social Security for them, few have demanded it be shored up by more fairly payroll-taxing the wealthy; most appear resigned to having more money deducted from their paychecks for Social Security, even though they don’t believe it will be around to benefit them.
How exactly has American society subdued young Americans? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, Talks About Boycott On Campaign Contributions. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz spoke to CNN Money on Tuesday about what he hopes to accomplish with his recently announced boycott on political contributions.
As reported by The Huffington Post's Dan Froomkin, Schultz is calling on Americans and fellow business leaders to halt all campaign donations until politicians stop squabbling and demonstrate a capacity to work toward compromise on long-term fiscal issues. New York Times columnist Joe Nocera recently wrote in an op-ed: In effect, Schultz thinks the country should go on strike against its politicians. “The fundamental problem,” he said, “is that the lens through which Congress approaches issues is re-election. The lifeblood of their re-election campaigns is political contributions.” The message from the Starbucks CEO comes on the heels of the protracted debate over raising the nation's debt ceiling. "All it seems people are interested in is re-election," Schultz explained. WATCH (via CNN):