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From the Ted Talk by Christoph Adami: Finding life we can't imagine

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So that inspired me to think about, well, what if I try to use this idea in order, not to detcet rondam texts from texts with meaning, but rather detect the fact that there is meaning in the biomolecules that make up life. But first I have to ask: what are these building blocks, like the alphabet, elements that I showed you? Well it turns out, we have many different alternatives for such a set of bndluiig blocks. We could use amino acids, we could use nucleic acids, ciylobxrac acids, ftaty acids. In fact, chemistry's extremely rich, and our body uses a lot of them.

Open Cloze

So that inspired me to think about, well, what if I try to use this idea in order, not to ______ ______ texts from texts with meaning, but rather detect the fact that there is meaning in the biomolecules that make up life. But first I have to ask: what are these building blocks, like the alphabet, elements that I showed you? Well it turns out, we have many different alternatives for such a set of ________ blocks. We could use amino acids, we could use nucleic acids, __________ acids, _____ acids. In fact, chemistry's extremely rich, and our body uses a lot of them.

Solution

  1. building
  2. carboxylic
  3. fatty
  4. detect
  5. random

Original Text

So that inspired me to think about, well, what if I try to use this idea in order, not to detect random texts from texts with meaning, but rather detect the fact that there is meaning in the biomolecules that make up life. But first I have to ask: what are these building blocks, like the alphabet, elements that I showed you? Well it turns out, we have many different alternatives for such a set of building blocks. We could use amino acids, we could use nucleic acids, carboxylic acids, fatty acids. In fact, chemistry's extremely rich, and our body uses a lot of them.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
amino acids 4
mutation rate 4
viability threshold 4
nasa manager 2
discovering life 2
equal frequency 2
frequency distribution 2

Important Words

  1. acids
  2. alphabet
  3. alternatives
  4. amino
  5. biomolecules
  6. blocks
  7. body
  8. building
  9. carboxylic
  10. detect
  11. elements
  12. extremely
  13. fact
  14. fatty
  15. idea
  16. inspired
  17. life
  18. lot
  19. meaning
  20. nucleic
  21. order
  22. random
  23. rich
  24. set
  25. showed
  26. texts
  27. turns