by Jesse Anderson | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Million Monkeys |
I want to tell you a story about how my life changed. It wasn’t a cult, new religion, or programming language. A million monkeys changed my life. Ten years ago, I randomly recreated every work of Shakespeare. It was quite a project on the technical, news, and... by Jesse Anderson | Oct 19, 2011 | Blog, Million Monkeys |
At last weekend’s Hack4Reno, I created a new visualization of the Million Monkeys’ data. It allows you to choose your favorite work of Shakespeare and find out how a particular character was found. You simply place or hover the mouse over a character and... by Jesse Anderson | Oct 6, 2011 | Blog, Magnum Opus, Million Monkeys |
All the world’s a stage,And all the monkeys merely players;They have their typos and their hits,And one monkey in his time plays many parts,His acts being 38 works of Shakespeare.- Monkey As You Like It Update: I created a new visualization of the monkeys’... by Jesse Anderson | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog, Magnum Opus, Million Monkeys |
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;I come to recreate Shakespeare, not to praise him.- Monkey Julius Caesar Update 1: The monkeys recreated every work of Shakespeare and went viral. See the project project postmortem for my thoughts on going viral and what... 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...
