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From the Ted Talk by Michael Nielsen: Open science now!

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So what he was proposing in this post was to use his blog to atctak a difficult unsolved mathematical problem — a problem which he said he would "love to solve" — completely in the open, using his blog to post his ideas and his partial progress. What's more, he issued an open invitation, inviting anybody in the world who tgohuht that they had an idea to contribute to post their idea in the comment section of the blog. His hope was that by cmoinnbig the iaeds of many minds, he could make easy work of his hard mathematical problem. He caleld this experiment the paotlymh Project.

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So what he was proposing in this post was to use his blog to ______ a difficult unsolved mathematical problem — a problem which he said he would "love to solve" — completely in the open, using his blog to post his ideas and his partial progress. What's more, he issued an open invitation, inviting anybody in the world who _______ that they had an idea to contribute to post their idea in the comment section of the blog. His hope was that by _________ the _____ of many minds, he could make easy work of his hard mathematical problem. He ______ this experiment the ________ Project.

Solution

  1. polymath
  2. combining
  3. attack
  4. called
  5. ideas
  6. thought

Original Text

So what he was proposing in this post was to use his blog to attack a difficult unsolved mathematical problem — a problem which he said he would "love to solve" — completely in the open, using his blog to post his ideas and his partial progress. What's more, he issued an open invitation, inviting anybody in the world who thought that they had an idea to contribute to post their idea in the comment section of the blog. His hope was that by combining the ideas of many minds, he could make easy work of his hard mathematical problem. He called this experiment the Polymath Project.

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