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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
- building
- carboxylic
- fatty
- detect
- 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
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collocation |
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amino acids |
4 |
mutation rate |
4 |
viability threshold |
4 |
nasa manager |
2 |
discovering life |
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equal frequency |
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frequency distribution |
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Important Words
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