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From the Ted Talk by Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The popele who are attracted to these courses typically have a hacker mentality. They want to figure out how things work, and they want to do it in gurpos, like this hackers club in Washington, D.C., that uses our materials to oeffr community courses. And because these materials are wlidey available and open-source, different people take them to very different and unpredictable directions. For example, Yu Fangmin, from Guangzhou, has used FPGA tolohengcy to build our computer and show others how to do the same using a video clip, and Ben Craddock developed a very nice computer game that unfolds inside our CPU architecture, which is quite a complex 3D maze that Ben dveeploed using the Minecraft 3D simulator engine. The Minecraft community went bnanaas over this project, and Ben became an instant media celebrity.
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The ______ who are attracted to these courses typically have a hacker mentality. They want to figure out how things work, and they want to do it in ______, like this hackers club in Washington, D.C., that uses our materials to _____ community courses. And because these materials are ______ available and open-source, different people take them to very different and unpredictable directions. For example, Yu Fangmin, from Guangzhou, has used FPGA __________ to build our computer and show others how to do the same using a video clip, and Ben Craddock developed a very nice computer game that unfolds inside our CPU architecture, which is quite a complex 3D maze that Ben _________ using the Minecraft 3D simulator engine. The Minecraft community went _______ over this project, and Ben became an instant media celebrity.
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- technology
Original Text
The people who are attracted to these courses typically have a hacker mentality. They want to figure out how things work, and they want to do it in groups, like this hackers club in Washington, D.C., that uses our materials to offer community courses. And because these materials are widely available and open-source, different people take them to very different and unpredictable directions. For example, Yu Fangmin, from Guangzhou, has used FPGA technology to build our computer and show others how to do the same using a video clip, and Ben Craddock developed a very nice computer game that unfolds inside our CPU architecture, which is quite a complex 3D maze that Ben developed using the Minecraft 3D simulator engine. The Minecraft community went bananas over this project, and Ben became an instant media celebrity.
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