When I first started this blog, I was under the impression that Spider Monkeys are intelligent creatures, able to recognise legal moves in a game of Spider Solitaire and play at lightning-fast speed – albeit with less than optimal strategy. But Wikipedia says I wasn’t even close. In fact, I wasn’t even aware that Spider Monkeys are a thing, and I only found out by complete accident when trying to lit-review a subject I know very little about, but my supervisor wants me to look at.

Toward Agent-Based Models for Investment is the title of a paper by J. Doyne Farmer in the 2001 AIMR Conference proceedings. The important bit appears near the end of page 2. It says:

“The same principles apply in blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah spider monkeys. Blah blah blah monkeys blah blah blah blah blah”

At least I have learnt that spider monkeys are New World monkeys belonging to the genus Ateles, part of the subfamily Atelinae, family Atelidae. Reading the rest of the Wikipedia article and summarising the important bits in a paragraph or two is left as an exercise for the reader.

Anyways, that’s enough digressing for now. Back to the game …