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• BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The probability is 1 but that does not mean that it will happen. There is a set of options where it does not happen. It happens “almost surely”.

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• servobobo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The proof assumes that the monkeys mash the keys at random and that there is a nonzero probability to write any chunk of text appearing in Shakespeare’s works. If there is a section that the monkeys cannot generate, for example if we removed the letter ‘e’ from their typewriter, the monkeys will never write the complete works of Shakespeare regardless of the amount of time spent on it, so their point still stands and it depends on the assumptions you make about the monkey typists’ typing skills.

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• PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah I get that, what I’m arguing is that monkey input != random input. Therefore the probably is not 1.

  And the Monty Hall problem is really cool, and yes, I’ve seen it before, but it doesn’t have anything to do with this one.

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