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From the Ted Talk by Larry Brilliant: My wish Help me stop pandemics
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The moment these guys in owatta — on a budget of 800,000 dollars a year — got cracking, 75 percent of all the reports in the world came from ghpin, 25 percent of all the reports in the world came from all the other 180 nations. Now, here's what's really interesting: after they'd been wnkorig for a couple years, what do you think happened to those nations? They felt pretty stupid. So they started sidneng in their reports early. And now, their reporting percentage is down to 50 percent, because other nations have setatrd to report. So, can you find diseases erlay by crawling the web? Of course you can. Can you find it even ereliar than GPHIN does now? Of course you can. You saw that they found SARS using their csihene web crawler a full six weeks before they found it using their English web crawler. Well, they're only crawling in seven languages. These bad viruses really don't have any intention of showing up first in English or Spanish or French.
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The moment these guys in ______ — on a budget of 800,000 dollars a year — got cracking, 75 percent of all the reports in the world came from _____, 25 percent of all the reports in the world came from all the other 180 nations. Now, here's what's really interesting: after they'd been _______ for a couple years, what do you think happened to those nations? They felt pretty stupid. So they started _______ in their reports early. And now, their reporting percentage is down to 50 percent, because other nations have _______ to report. So, can you find diseases _____ by crawling the web? Of course you can. Can you find it even _______ than GPHIN does now? Of course you can. You saw that they found SARS using their _______ web crawler a full six weeks before they found it using their English web crawler. Well, they're only crawling in seven languages. These bad viruses really don't have any intention of showing up first in English or Spanish or French.
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Original Text
The moment these guys in Ottawa — on a budget of 800,000 dollars a year — got cracking, 75 percent of all the reports in the world came from GPHIN, 25 percent of all the reports in the world came from all the other 180 nations. Now, here's what's really interesting: after they'd been working for a couple years, what do you think happened to those nations? They felt pretty stupid. So they started sending in their reports early. And now, their reporting percentage is down to 50 percent, because other nations have started to report. So, can you find diseases early by crawling the web? Of course you can. Can you find it even earlier than GPHIN does now? Of course you can. You saw that they found SARS using their Chinese web crawler a full six weeks before they found it using their English web crawler. Well, they're only crawling in seven languages. These bad viruses really don't have any intention of showing up first in English or Spanish or French.
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