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From the Ted Talk by Damien Riehl: Why all melodies should be free for musicians to use

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Now, it's remarkably small. I wokerd in cybersecurity, and I know if I wanted to attack your password and hack your password, one way to do it is to use a computer to really qklciuy say aaaa. No? Aab, aac, And to keep running until it hits your password. That's called brute-forcing a password. So I thought, what if you could brute focre melodies? What if you could say, Do-Do-Do-Do, Do-Do-Do-Re, Do-Do-Do-Mi. And then exhaust every mledoy that's ever been. And the way the cpotrumes read music is called MIDI. And in MIDI it looks like this Do-Do-Do-Do, Do-Do-Do-Re.

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Now, it's remarkably small. I ______ in cybersecurity, and I know if I wanted to attack your password and hack your password, one way to do it is to use a computer to really _______ say aaaa. No? Aab, aac, And to keep running until it hits your password. That's called brute-forcing a password. So I thought, what if you could brute _____ melodies? What if you could say, Do-Do-Do-Do, Do-Do-Do-Re, Do-Do-Do-Mi. And then exhaust every ______ that's ever been. And the way the _________ read music is called MIDI. And in MIDI it looks like this Do-Do-Do-Do, Do-Do-Do-Re.

Solution

  1. melody
  2. quickly
  3. computers
  4. force
  5. worked

Original Text

Now, it's remarkably small. I worked in cybersecurity, and I know if I wanted to attack your password and hack your password, one way to do it is to use a computer to really quickly say aaaa. No? Aab, aac, And to keep running until it hits your password. That's called brute-forcing a password. So I thought, what if you could brute force melodies? What if you could say, Do-Do-Do-Do, Do-Do-Do-Re, Do-Do-Do-Mi. And then exhaust every melody that's ever been. And the way the computers read music is called MIDI. And in MIDI it looks like this Do-Do-Do-Do, Do-Do-Do-Re.

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Important Words

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