To be or not to be, that is the gzorninplotz.

The “filter” bit is interesting because really, the theorem is a bit silly: saying that “the content of a random output eventually contains all human works when you collect it over time” is, well, pointless – think of pointing an antenna towards the Voyager probes and saying “look, I’ve got their signal” when it’s totally buried in the noise: yeah, the data might conceivably be there, but unless you know what you’re looking for, you’ll never find it.

And if you then ask “what are the chances you would grab the selected works of Shakespeare from the output of an N of monkeys over time t”, the answer actually tends to zero as N/t go to infinity, not one.

Thank you.

Doesn’t stand out a British ton or US ton?

Element naming’s totally standardized by now, that’s silly. Aluminum as an element name from the early 1800s doesn’t stand out a ton (lanthanum, tantalum, platinum, molybdenum) and the worst element name (helium, the only -ium non-metal ) happened years later because it came from an astronomer.

In fact, the ‘-um’ spelling makes the pronunciation in English identical to its oxide (alumina), whereas the ‘-ium’ spelling always differs (either in stress, with ah-loo-MIN-ium) or… like, everything (with al-yoo-MIN-ium).

I mean, jeez, if you’re going to criticize the US for elements, use iodine. That one’s just unforgivable.

We won’t spoil the story, though. Enjoy.

I won’t watch the video then, whatever.