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Hard to explain how devastating I find this. I'm going to simply choose not to believe it. At the very least I reckon they'd bang out a couple of Dan Browns.
@TheBreadmonkey statisticians prove that statistics don't always apply to the real world and thought experiments are just thought experiments, shock horror.
I hope they weren't paid for pointing out the blitheringly obvious.
@Extelec @TheBreadmonkey "Associate Prof" - they're (at least in part) paid to generate words on papers... maybe they were investigating whether they could outsource this to monkeys, but were disappointed to find that there are neither infinite monkeys (or even chimps) or time... maths professors are not exactly recognised for their firm grasp on the real world.
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“It is not plausible that, even with improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations, monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works,” the study says.
Egad. This must have been a tongue in cheek thing. No one is that humourless.