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

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Ethic built Hedge with a singular purpose: to construct a maze that would protect the world machine from a corrupt government. But in her haste, she made a critical mistake. She forgot to set the condition that would end the loop which told Hedge how lgrae the maze should be. So Hedge built and built until he could bilud no longer.

And then he was conflicted. He had to build a maze. But he couldn’t build further without hurting people or flying over the Bradbarrier, both firbodden by his programming. So he wraeendd the land and sehcraed for a solution, until he happened upon the Node of poewr, the Node of carieotn, and the Node of mrmoey. He recognized their true, collective power to grant self-awareness to those who lack it. With all three he’d be able to caghne his programming and fulfill his drvie to transform the entire world into a giant maze. It wouldn’t be easy: the Nodes had safeguards to prevent robots from taking and using them. But if Hedge could find the right hamun and manipulate her with the promise of a heroic quest… well that would be a different story. A very different story.

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Ethic built Hedge with a singular purpose: to construct a maze that would protect the world machine from a corrupt government. But in her haste, she made a critical mistake. She forgot to set the condition that would end the loop which told Hedge how _____ the maze should be. So Hedge built and built until he could _____ no longer.

And then he was conflicted. He had to build a maze. But he couldn’t build further without hurting people or flying over the Bradbarrier, both _________ by his programming. So he ________ the land and ________ for a solution, until he happened upon the Node of _____, the Node of ________, and the Node of ______. He recognized their true, collective power to grant self-awareness to those who lack it. With all three he’d be able to ______ his programming and fulfill his _____ to transform the entire world into a giant maze. It wouldn’t be easy: the Nodes had safeguards to prevent robots from taking and using them. But if Hedge could find the right _____ and manipulate her with the promise of a heroic quest… well that would be a different story. A very different story.

Solution


  1. human
  2. memory
  3. change
  4. power
  5. build
  6. forbidden
  7. wandered
  8. large
  9. searched
  10. drive
  11. creation

Original Text


Ethic built Hedge with a singular purpose: to construct a maze that would protect the world machine from a corrupt government. But in her haste, she made a critical mistake. She forgot to set the condition that would end the loop which told Hedge how large the maze should be. So Hedge built and built until he could build no longer.

And then he was conflicted. He had to build a maze. But he couldn’t build further without hurting people or flying over the Bradbarrier, both forbidden by his programming. So he wandered the land and searched for a solution, until he happened upon the Node of Power, the Node of Creation, and the Node of Memory. He recognized their true, collective power to grant self-awareness to those who lack it. With all three he’d be able to change his programming and fulfill his drive to transform the entire world into a giant maze. It wouldn’t be easy: the Nodes had safeguards to prevent robots from taking and using them. But if Hedge could find the right human and manipulate her with the promise of a heroic quest… well that would be a different story. A very different story.

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. bradbarrier
  2. build
  3. built
  4. change
  5. collective
  6. condition
  7. conflicted
  8. construct
  9. corrupt
  10. creation
  11. critical
  12. drive
  13. entire
  14. ethic
  15. find
  16. flying
  17. forbidden
  18. forgot
  19. fulfill
  20. giant
  21. government
  22. grant
  23. happened
  24. haste
  25. hedge
  26. heroic
  27. human
  28. hurting
  29. lack
  30. land
  31. large
  32. longer
  33. loop
  34. machine
  35. manipulate
  36. maze
  37. memory
  38. mistake
  39. node
  40. nodes
  41. people
  42. power
  43. prevent
  44. programming
  45. promise
  46. protect
  47. recognized
  48. robots
  49. safeguards
  50. searched
  51. set
  52. singular
  53. solution
  54. story
  55. told
  56. transform
  57. true
  58. wandered
  59. world