by Jesse Anderson | Feb 14, 2012 | Magnum Opus |
Update: Be sure to check out my screencast covering this project. Note: This is a very long, technical and detailed discussion of Amazon Web Services. You can watch the YouTube video below for a less technical explanation or skip to the conclusion to get the results.... by Jesse Anderson | Aug 21, 2011 | Blog, Million Monkeys |
Update 5: The monkeys recreated every work of Shakespeare and went viral. See the project project postmortem for my thoughts on going viral and what I learned during the project. Update 6: I created a new visualization of the monkeys’ data. Update 4: The monkeys... by Jesse Anderson | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog, Magnum Opus, Million Monkeys |
One of my favorite Simpsons episodes has a scene where Mr. Burns brings Homer to his mansion (YouTube Video). One of his rooms has a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. One of the monkeys writes a slightly incorrect line from Charles Dickens ‘It was the...