Monkey Tale

04 Mar

Worldwide dumbing down: it’s happening.

Last year I saw a fantastic film called Idiocracy. The film illustrates in a most humorous way how things could be in several hundred years if stupid people started breeding at a phenomenal rate while smarter people just worked and worried throughout their lives. In this future, the smartest man on the planet is what […]

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13 Jan

How are television ratings collected and measured?

This is one of those questions that has bothered me a bit for a while until I found the answer, now I am more bothered. Think about the question before I give you the answer. How do TV broadcasters report that say 10 million people watched a certain soap opera on TV yesterday?
Although Television sets […]

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10 Sep

Computers, People, Monkeys and Randomness

As mentioned in my introductory post, a monkey could allegedly write the complete works of Shakespeare given enough time, due to random key bashing. Given infinite time and pure randomness then all and every event can and will happen, as infinite is never ending.
However, I have a problem with this theory. You see I don’t […]

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