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From the Ted Talk by Alex Rosenthal: The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Ethic is about to deactivate the force field when Lemma stops her. She explains, a dacdee ago, she was assigned a research task: to use the world machine to cetrae something that would make everyone hpapy. After many failed attempts, Lemma discovered a compound that, when ieesgntd, made people motivated, happy, creative, loving… in short, their best selves. It was rushed into production. Soon, the entire nation’s food supply came from Huxenborg, with the comonupd mixed in. The first year was paradise. The second, not so much. Side-effects beagn to emerge: memory-loss, listlessness, and self-absorption. In the third year, the government dissolved, leaving the robots running everything in a self-sustaining loop. By this point things were too far gone for Lemma to reverse. People had become dependent on the compound, and the few who refused it formed a resistance to try to fix things. It took 10 years for Lemma to find a cure. This factory contains everything she’ll need to make it, but the second they take the Node of Memory, the security setysm will alert the robots, and they’ll have to run. If, instead, they first reconfigure the faoctry to mcnaatuurfe the cure, the people can be saved.

Open Cloze

Ethic is about to deactivate the force field when Lemma stops her. She explains, a ______ ago, she was assigned a research task: to use the world machine to ______ something that would make everyone _____. After many failed attempts, Lemma discovered a compound that, when ________, made people motivated, happy, creative, loving… in short, their best selves. It was rushed into production. Soon, the entire nation’s food supply came from Huxenborg, with the ________ mixed in. The first year was paradise. The second, not so much. Side-effects _____ to emerge: memory-loss, listlessness, and self-absorption. In the third year, the government dissolved, leaving the robots running everything in a self-sustaining loop. By this point things were too far gone for Lemma to reverse. People had become dependent on the compound, and the few who refused it formed a resistance to try to fix things. It took 10 years for Lemma to find a cure. This factory contains everything she’ll need to make it, but the second they take the Node of Memory, the security ______ will alert the robots, and they’ll have to run. If, instead, they first reconfigure the _______ to ___________ the cure, the people can be saved.

Solution

  1. create
  2. system
  3. began
  4. factory
  5. ingested
  6. compound
  7. decade
  8. happy
  9. manufacture

Original Text

Ethic is about to deactivate the force field when Lemma stops her. She explains, a decade ago, she was assigned a research task: to use the world machine to create something that would make everyone happy. After many failed attempts, Lemma discovered a compound that, when ingested, made people motivated, happy, creative, loving… in short, their best selves. It was rushed into production. Soon, the entire nation’s food supply came from Huxenborg, with the compound mixed in. The first year was paradise. The second, not so much. Side-effects began to emerge: memory-loss, listlessness, and self-absorption. In the third year, the government dissolved, leaving the robots running everything in a self-sustaining loop. By this point things were too far gone for Lemma to reverse. People had become dependent on the compound, and the few who refused it formed a resistance to try to fix things. It took 10 years for Lemma to find a cure. This factory contains everything she’ll need to make it, but the second they take the Node of Memory, the security system will alert the robots, and they’ll have to run. If, instead, they first reconfigure the factory to manufacture the cure, the people can be saved.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
arrows pointing 3
force field 2
world machine 2
requires step 2
store information 2

Important Words

  1. alert
  2. assigned
  3. attempts
  4. began
  5. compound
  6. create
  7. creative
  8. cure
  9. deactivate
  10. decade
  11. dependent
  12. discovered
  13. dissolved
  14. entire
  15. ethic
  16. explains
  17. factory
  18. failed
  19. field
  20. find
  21. fix
  22. food
  23. force
  24. formed
  25. government
  26. happy
  27. huxenborg
  28. ingested
  29. leaving
  30. lemma
  31. listlessness
  32. loop
  33. machine
  34. manufacture
  35. memory
  36. mixed
  37. motivated
  38. node
  39. paradise
  40. people
  41. point
  42. production
  43. reconfigure
  44. refused
  45. research
  46. resistance
  47. reverse
  48. robots
  49. run
  50. running
  51. rushed
  52. saved
  53. security
  54. short
  55. stops
  56. supply
  57. system
  58. world
  59. year
  60. years