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From the Ted Talk by George Dyson: The birth of the computer

Unscramble the Blue Letters


"MANIAC regained its mormey, when the power went off." "Machine or human?"

"Aha!" So, they figured out it's a code prolbem.

"Found tulbore in code, I hope."

"Code erorr, machine not guilty."

"Damn it, I can be just as subtobrn as this thing."

(Laughter)

"And the dawn came." So they ran all night. Twenty-four hours a day, this thing was running, mainly running bomb calculations.

"Everything up to this point is wsetad time." "What's the use? Good night."

"Master control off. The hell with it. Way off." (Laughter)

"Something's wrong with the air conditioner — smell of burning V-belts in the air."

Open Cloze


"MANIAC regained its ______, when the power went off." "Machine or human?"

"Aha!" So, they figured out it's a code _______.

"Found _______ in code, I hope."

"Code _____, machine not guilty."

"Damn it, I can be just as ________ as this thing."

(Laughter)

"And the dawn came." So they ran all night. Twenty-four hours a day, this thing was running, mainly running bomb calculations.

"Everything up to this point is ______ time." "What's the use? Good night."

"Master control off. The hell with it. Way off." (Laughter)

"Something's wrong with the air conditioner — smell of burning V-belts in the air."

Solution


  1. stubborn
  2. trouble
  3. memory
  4. error
  5. wasted
  6. problem

Original Text


"MANIAC regained its memory, when the power went off." "Machine or human?"

"Aha!" So, they figured out it's a code problem.

"Found trouble in code, I hope."

"Code error, machine not guilty."

"Damn it, I can be just as stubborn as this thing."

(Laughter)

"And the dawn came." So they ran all night. Twenty-four hours a day, this thing was running, mainly running bomb calculations.

"Everything up to this point is wasted time." "What's the use? Good night."

"Master control off. The hell with it. Way off." (Laughter)

"Something's wrong with the air conditioner — smell of burning V-belts in the air."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
von neumann 10
vacuum tubes 3
advanced study 2
bomb calculations 2
slow speed 2


Important Words


  1. air
  2. bomb
  3. burning
  4. calculations
  5. code
  6. conditioner
  7. control
  8. dawn
  9. day
  10. error
  11. figured
  12. good
  13. guilty
  14. hell
  15. hope
  16. hours
  17. human
  18. laughter
  19. machine
  20. memory
  21. night
  22. point
  23. power
  24. problem
  25. ran
  26. regained
  27. running
  28. smell
  29. stubborn
  30. time
  31. trouble
  32. wasted
  33. wrong