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    "text": "Welcome to the deep dive everyone."
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    "start": 1.78,
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    "text": "I am really, really excited to get into today's mission because it is highly unusual."
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    "start": 7.5,
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    "text": "Oh!"
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    "start": 7.68,
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    "text": "Highly unusual as an understatement?"
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    "start": 10.38,
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    "text": "It's basically unprecedented"
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  {
    "start": 11.84,
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    "text": "for us right?"
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    "start": 12.86,
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    "text": "so normally you know we sit down with these massive documents thousands of pages of data, complex methodologies just really dense source material."
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    "start": 22.84,
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    "text": "Right normally we're dealing with a huge volume of information and we have to sift through it all"
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  {
    "start": 26.86,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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  {
    "start": 27.82,
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    "text": "but today our mission is basically the exact opposite of that."
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    "start": 32.64,
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    "text": "It's an exercise in absolute minimalism."
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    "start": 34.94,
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    "text": "Yeah That's great way put it."
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    "start": 36.86,
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    "text": "So To set this stage for you The listener Imagine you're handed the highest security clearance imaginable."
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    "text": "You are given structural blueprints to the most complex, mind-bending piece of technology in your field"
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    "start": 50.2,
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    "text": "The Holy Grail Of Data."
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    "start": 51.78,
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    "text": "Right!"
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  {
    "start": 52.2,
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    "text": "You clear your whole schedule and sit down at your desk with coffee ready to unlock all secrets And open this folder."
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    "text": "and there is absolutely nothing inside, nothing except a blank post-it note with the name of machine written on it twice."
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    "start": 71.4,
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    "text": "It's just total information vacuum."
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    "start": 72.94,
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    "text": "A complete"
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    "text": "vacuum because our topic today Particle accelerators."
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    "start": 78.32,
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    "text": "Yes, but the source material we've been given to analyze this sole document for this entire deep dive"
  },
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    "start": 85.3,
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    "text": "is literally"
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    "start": 86.72,
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    "text": "four words long"
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    "start": 87.9,
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    "text": "forwards."
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    "start": 88.5,
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    "text": "it's."
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    "start": 89.9,
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    "text": "It really forces us To completely change our standard operating procedure."
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    "start": 94.24,
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    "text": "I mean i have to be honest with everyone listening right now."
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  {
    "start": 96.38,
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    "text": "my very first Instinct when I saw the file was that there had been a colossal mistake."
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    "start": 100.44,
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    "text": "Oh Completely?"
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    "start": 101.12,
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    "text": "I thought The same thing"
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    "start": 101.96,
    "end": 102.2,
    "text": "Right!"
  },
  {
    "start": 102.32,
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    "text": "I was like...I checked the email attachments uh.. I re-clicked the source link highlighting the page looking for hidden white text."
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    "start": 108.38,
    "end": 109.0,
    "text": "Looking for a second"
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    "start": 109.04,
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    "text": "page?"
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  {
    "start": 109.26,
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    "text": "Yeah, but there isn't one."
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  {
    "start": 110.94,
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    "text": "so just so everyone is completely clear."
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    "text": "our entire source document consists of a heading that says quote excerpts from particle accelerators and quote followed immediately by A body text That Just Says Particle Accelerators."
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    "start": 124.5,
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    "text": "And That's It."
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    "text": "The Document Ends."
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    "start": 126.24,
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    "text": "it's just a profound structural anomaly"
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    "start": 128.4,
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    "text": "its wild."
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    "text": "So how do we even like How Do We unpack a Source?"
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    "start": 133.22,
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    "text": "That Is Two words repeated."
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    "text": "Well, when you're presented with a text that utterly lacks traditional substance You know we obviously cannot analyze the arguments"
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    "start": 144.0,
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    "text": "because there aren't any"
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    "start": 145.06,
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    "text": "right."
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    "start": 145.26,
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    "text": "There are no experimental data sets No conclusions to debate."
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    "start": 148.42,
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    "text": "they just don't exist in this document."
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  {
    "start": 150.16,
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    "text": "So what are we doing here then?"
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    "start": 151.72,
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    "text": "We are forced become structural archaeologists"
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    "start": 155.3,
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    "text": "Structural archaeologist."
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    "start": 157.48,
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    "text": "I like that."
  },
  {
    "start": 158.08,
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    "text": "well it means the investigation has to pivot."
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    "start": 161.18,
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    "text": "We move away from the content because there is none And we look at the architecture of The Void itself."
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    "start": 166.34,
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    "text": "The architecture Of The Voids?"
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    "start": 167.76,
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    "text": "Yeah, We have to analyze what the actual Framing of this text."
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    "start": 171.7,
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    "text": "you know those four specific words What that tells us about the system That generated it which"
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    "start": 175.92,
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    "text": "is just such a bizarre intellectual puzzle."
  },
  {
    "start": 178.32,
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    "text": "You Know"
  },
  {
    "start": 178.9,
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    "text": "It really Is."
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    "text": "it's um its sort of like staring At an empty picture frame hanging on A wall in the Louvre and your Just standing there trying To figure out wait was the painting stolen"
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    "start": 188.32,
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    "text": "right or did the artist just never paint In the first place"
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    "start": 190.86,
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    "text": "exactly?"
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    "start": 191.68,
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    "text": "Or Like Is the frame itself supposed to be The Modern Art?"
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    "start": 195.62,
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    "text": "That's a perfect analogy."
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    "start": 197.3,
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    "text": "So let us actually look at the frame we've been given!"
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    "start": 199.48,
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    "text": "Let"
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    "start": 199.66,
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    "text": "s do it, so...the very first line of our source, the heading."
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    "text": "It reads excerpts from particle accelerators"
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    "start": 206.76,
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    "text": "And that VERY FIRST word is where the immediate dissonance begins."
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    "start": 210.66,
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    "text": "A word"
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    "start": 211.6,
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    "text": "Yes."
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    "text": "Excerpts."
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    "text": "Plural"
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    "start": 213.78,
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    "text": "Ah right"
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    "start": 215.44,
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    "text": "Tiny as on the end of the word carries a massive amount of structural weight in this context"
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    "start": 220.98,
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    "text": "because it's making a promise."
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    "start": 222.08,
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    "text": "It doesn't keep"
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    "start": 222.9,
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    "text": "exactly."
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    "start": 224.02,
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    "text": "The word implies a curated selection."
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    "start": 226.4,
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    "text": "if I say, I'm giving you excerpts i am promising You A variety Of passages that have been plucked from a larger parent document"
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    "start": 232.9,
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    "text": "right?"
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    "start": 233.06,
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    "text": "If you tell me hey read these excerpts From This Larger Work My brain Automatically Prepares for a specific kind of format."
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    "start": 239.8,
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    "text": "you expect structure"
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    "start": 241.42,
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    "text": "yeah, I expect uh Bullet points or paragraphs separated by line breaks, or just a montage of key ideas."
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    "start": 248.44,
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    "text": "Mm-hmm like let's take a movie trailer right?"
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    "start": 251.44,
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    "text": "A Movie trailer is basically an excerpt of the film."
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    "start": 254.14,
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    "text": "It's great way to look at it"
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    "start": 255.52,
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    "text": "and when you sit down in The theater And the trailer plays You expect a curated montage."
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    "start": 260.459,
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    "text": "get the quick car chase Maybe a little romantic moment the big explosion a witty one liner."
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    "start": 267.6,
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    "text": "you can have variety of moments that represent the whole."
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    "text": "You get multiplicity."
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    "start": 271.76,
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    "text": "And"
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    "text": "that's exactly what the plurals in excerpts sets up, it is a contractual exception of multiplicity and variety."
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    "start": 277.9,
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    "text": "Yeah its a contract with the reader."
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    "start": 279.56,
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    "text": "The heading is signaling to us That a filtering process has definitely occurred."
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    "start": 284.78,
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    "text": "Okay"
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    "start": 285.1,
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    "text": "meaning what?"
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    "start": 285.7,
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    "text": "Exactly Meaning someone or perhaps some automated process Has gone into massive parent text about particle accelerators, evaluated all the contents and specifically selected multiple distinct pieces of high-value information to show us."
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    "start": 301.4,
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    "text": "But looking at what we actually have sitting on the page here that contract is just immediately broken."
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    "start": 306.02,
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    "text": "Shattered really?"
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    "start": 307.12,
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    "text": "Yeah because if we stick to that movie trailer analogy well We've Actually Been Handed."
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    "text": "Is a Trailer That Just Displays The Title Card Of The Movie Over And Over On A Continuous Loop For Two Minutes Right"
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    "start": 319.34,
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    "text": "Just Flashing The Title It's JUST"
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    "text": "THE TITLE!"
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    "text": "So how can a single, highly repetitive phrase literally just the title itself qualify as multiple excerpts?"
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    "text": "It just doesn't make any sense at all."
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    "start": 331.2,
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    "text": "What does it makes sense if we assume that document is functioning as intended?"
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    "start": 334.18,
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    "text": "Okay"
  },
  {
    "start": 334.48,
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    "text": "so you think its broken."
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    "start": 335.86,
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    "text": "Yes If we assumed this document was result of systemic failure then that plural word excerpt becomes really vital."
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    "start": 343.52,
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    "text": "clue"
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    "start": 344.3,
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    "text": "A clue to what?"
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    "start": 345.22,
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    "text": "It points heavily toward automated indexing you know, or categorization in a digital space."
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    "start": 350.68,
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    "text": "Okay wait so your thinking this whole thing is just a glitch and database?"
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    "start": 354.24,
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    "text": "Think about how massive digital archives are."
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    "start": 356.98,
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    "text": "filing systems operate okay."
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    "text": "often the metadata which it's just data about that data completely separated from actual payload of file"
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    "start": 366.22,
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    "text": "Right."
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    "start": 366.48,
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    "text": "The label is separate from the contents,"
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    "start": 368.36,
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    "text": "right?"
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    "text": "So in automated systems you might have a script that has designed to pull quote-quote excerpts From a massive digital library of scientific documents based on a keyword search"
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    "start": 380.28,
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    "text": "like a search engine scraping A site"
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    "start": 382.18,
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    "text": "exactly and the script Is programmed To automatically generate a standard header for its output."
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    "start": 388.92,
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    "text": "so every time it runs It prints excerpts from and then it fills in the blank with a title of whatever document its currently querying."
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    "start": 395.94,
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    "text": "Okay, I follow the logic there."
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    "start": 397.34,
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    "text": "The automated system creates the display case right?"
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    "start": 400.2,
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    "text": "The header before it actually goes down into the vault to fetch the artifact."
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    "start": 404.44,
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    "text": "Yes"
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    "start": 404.74,
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    "text": "That's exactly how it works."
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    "start": 405.92,
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    "text": "But"
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    "start": 406.06,
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    "start": 407.78,
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    "text": "or i guess Why does it comeback just holding another copy Of the display cases label?"
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    "start": 412.06,
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    "text": "that is the crucial question here."
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    "text": "And to me, it suggests a complete disconnect between the structural tags and actual content."
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    "start": 419.46,
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    "text": "A disconnect how?"
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    "start": 420.68,
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    "text": "Well... say this script encounters an error when trying to retrieve its text."
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    "text": "Maybe the file is corrupted or maybe permissions are"
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    "text": "wrong."
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    "start": 428.16,
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    "text": "So panics!"
  },
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    "start": 429.56,
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    "text": "Right?"
  },
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    "start": 429.84,
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    "text": "It panics and defaults to grabbing whatever text was already sitting in his primary identifying field, which just so happens to be the title."
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    "start": 437.5,
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    "text": "Oh wow!"
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    "start": 438.14,
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    "text": "Yeah So it tags the title as an excerpt, dumps into a body-field And presents this to user if he completed that job."
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    "start": 445.28,
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    "text": "We are looking at shadow of digital process that failed halfway through."
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    "start": 449.7,
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    "text": "That is fascinating."
  },
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    "start": 451.34,
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    "text": "I buy automated failure theory but i am actually going push back on idea."
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    "start": 455.92,
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    "text": "its purely machine error."
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    "start": 458.54,
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    "text": "Why is that?"
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    "start": 459.08,
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    "text": "Because look closely at the punctuation in the heading."
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    "start": 462.64,
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    "text": "Okay, it says excerpts from and then particle accelerators Is wrapped in single quotes"
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    "text": "of a single quote."
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    "start": 469.56,
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    "text": "Yeah"
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    "start": 470.14,
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    "text": "if an automated scraper is building ahead or from scratch It usually drops the variable The title in completely raw text."
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    "start": 476.8,
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    "text": "Or you know maybe a wraps it in standard double quotes or its slaps A bold tag on it If it's formatting for HTML."
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    "start": 483.0,
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    "text": "That's very fair point right"
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    "start": 484.74,
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    "text": "Single quotes feel distinctly human."
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    "start": 486.78,
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    "text": "to me."
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    "start": 487.92,
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    "text": "That specific choice looks like editorial style."
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    "start": 490.98,
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    "text": "That is actually a very sharp observation."
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  {
    "start": 493.08,
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    "text": "Thank you The single quotes really do suggest A level of typographic intentionality that You just don't typically see in raw database dumps."
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  {
    "start": 501.46,
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    "text": "Exactly,"
  },
  {
    "start": 502.0,
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    "text": "it's an active choice"
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    "start": 503.08,
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    "text": "because In traditional editorial style if you're writing the paper using single quotes within a heading often denotes a sub-work or specific title that is being referenced within the larger frame."
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    "start": 514.5,
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    "text": "Right, it looks like human beings actually sat there and typed heading on physical keyboard"
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    "start": 520.0,
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    "text": "which changes implications entirely."
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    "start": 522.039,
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    "text": "It totally does because if humans deliberately wrote excerpts from particle accelerators they actively believed They were introducing a collection of texts."
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    "start": 530.54,
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    "text": "They built that expectation manually."
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  {
    "start": 532.44,
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    "text": "which brings us to this incredible concept something we call the metadata ghost."
  },
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    "start": 536.54,
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    "text": "The metadata ghosts, that sounds so cool."
  },
  {
    "start": 538.74,
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    "text": "What is that?"
  },
  {
    "start": 539.5,
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    "text": "It's the idea That whether it was created by a human typist or a machine script for the heading acts as A structural frame that has entirely outlived its contents."
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    "start": 550.48,
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    "text": "okay like a fossil."
  },
  {
    "start": 551.72,
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    "text": "yes Like a fossil In archival science, especially when you're dealing with physical to digital migrations."
  },
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    "start": 557.84,
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    "text": "the structural tags."
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    "text": "The cover sheet is literally just a navigational tool for someone flipping through a physical filing cabinet."
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    "start": 943.18,
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    "start": 993.62,
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    "text": "Honestly, it completely bridges the gap between human punctuation I noticed and the mechanical output you were talking about..."
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    "start": 1007.08,
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    "text": "It fits the evidence perfectly!"
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    "start": 1008.62,
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    "text": "...it really does."
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    "start": 1037.92,
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    "text": "okay walk me through That."
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    "text": "Like WordPress, or whatever?"
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    "start": 1051.2,
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    "text": "Exactly!"
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    "text": "When an author goes in to create a new article they input the title into very specific field."
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    "text": "Right!"
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    "text": "Pretty standard web publishing interface."
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    "start": 1078.34,
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    "text": "Right!"
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    "text": "They program their scraping script To visit long list URLs Pull text from H-One title field Format it by adding the heading excerpts from and then pull the text form."
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    "start": 1093.02,
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    "text": "okay?"
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    "start": 1100.48,
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    "text": "right but here's where the critical failure occurs."
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    "start": 1108.7,
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    "text": "oh human error again."
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    "start": 1110.12,
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    "text": "yes The original author, perhaps they were confused by the publishing software."
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    "text": "They pasted their title into H-One Title Field like it was supposed to But then thinking that the body box looked a little too empty before starting writing an essay... ...they pasted the exact same title again in the very first line of the Body Content field As a placeholder."
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    "text": "Oh,"
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    "text": "I have absolutely seen people do that."
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    "text": "Yes They use the web text editor like it's a Microsoft Word document right?"
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    "text": "so they manually type The title into the body of the post Completely oblivious to the fact That the websites theme is already going To display their real title in huge letters at the very top Of the page exactly and It results on the title showing up twice On live website once In the header or Once in the text?"
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    "text": "It looks So silly when You see it in the wild."
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    "start": 1158.16,
    "end": 1158.5,
    "text": "it does."
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    "start": 1159.08,
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    "text": "And then this scenario the original author fully intended to come back later and write the actual article below that redundant placeholder title."
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    "end": 1168.34,
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    "end": 1170.22,
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    "text": "The project is abandoned entirely."
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    "text": "It really requires a constant active vigilance against this simplification of complex."
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    "text": "read excerpts You have keep digging and questioning empty boxes And remember sometimes analyzing architecture tells exactly how system is broken."
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