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by docfort 591 days ago
It's too bad that they took the physicality of the monkeys into account, but assumed the key probabilities were IID. It would have been nice to see the effect of keyboard layout on the overall probabilities. Key mashing would clearly make nearby keys much more likely to be pressed in a sequence, implying that there might be an optimal keyboard layout for each phrase. And that’s before considering soft keyboards with autocomplete.
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How about I define a new language or dictionary where three letters written like "αηζ" is equivalent to all works of Shakespeare.

Then job would be easy.