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First, a recap: The Infinite Monkey Theorem is a famous thought experiment stating that “a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare”.

So why not put it into practice? Of course, we don’t have infinity, and typewriters have been replaced by keyboards, but we’ve still got monkeys! The Lucky Monkey is an insane site, which has a live feed of a room containing a monkey, a PC, and a connection to Twitter. You follow Jimmy (the monkey) on Twitter, and if the monkey types your username you win! ( don’t know what you win exactly, but it’s pretty neat nonetheless)

Now I’m going to spend the rest of the day thinking what thought expiriments we can make digital. Maybe we could stick a webcam in Schrödinger’s box?