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Borel’s monkey at the keyboard

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The monkey types twelve-character lines and waits for one short line of code to come up among them. Below is the chapter’s sum: how many lines an army would get through if every atom in the universe were a monkey.

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Nobody Writes Code Anymore · Chapter 1

Random Code Programming

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The weak point of both schemes, Borel’s and Koza’s, was randomness itself. The monkey presses every key with equal probability, and a mutation changes any symbol in a program with equal ease, so almost all the variants turn out to be garbage, and no amount of selection can cope with a mountain of garbage that size. If the monkey knew even a little about which letters usually follow which, things would go differently. If it had read everything humanity had typed before it, things would go very differently indeed.

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