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Carl T. Bergstrom
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Biology professor at the University of Washington. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. I wrote a book: *Calling Bullshit*: tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b I love ravens and crows: tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk he/him
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In a recent post about ChatGPT, I linked to a chat log that posed the following word puzzle. I'm impressed at how many people this nerd-sniped, so I am posting it here as a standalone puzzle. I'll link the original thread in the next post.

The genome of the Hepatis B virus can be read in different reading frames; that is, the same stretch of genome codes for two different, useful proteins depending on whether you start transcribing at position n or position n+1. Note that each codon that specifies a single amino acid is three base pairs in length. 

To illustrate this using English words, we want to find a meaningful English phrase that is:

1) composed entirely of three-letter English words 
2) such that when the spaces between words are shifted by one position, we get another meaningful English phrase also made entirely of three-letter English words. 

No nonsense words are allowed. 

Here's an example. 

Take the string onewhotadsaw

This can be read as one who tad saw or as new hot ads.  

Find me another example.
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MAhansonmark.bsky.social

Can you tag eel fin kid Any out age elf ink I admit the 3rd frame is no good, but inquiring minds want to know nyo uta gee lfi nki

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Zitmezae.bsky.social

bughassatere bug has sat ere (archaic word for before) ugh ass ate

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RPrhacodactylus.bsky.social

koi let aha man dab oil eta ham and i tried to think of a funny short sentences with three letter words, then kept "moving" the spaces forward one until i found other three letter words i'm imagining a fish giving permission for morten harket to dab, and it makes me giggle

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Aelenaperez.bsky.social

Hear the art

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CWchillyw.bsky.social

I like this one even tho I’m cheating a bit on the last word I think: She ran tan dog Her ant and OG Ran across this one and it works but I hate it lol: wasskidadsad Was ski dad sad Ass kid ads

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EFeikofried.bsky.social

Will use the term from now on to tell students not to “nerd snipe” when I introduce Walds WW2 airplane puzzle on survivorship bias.

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Bboombutton.bsky.social

Sap red ink IDs Pre din kid

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Rriverrabbit.bsky.social

my answer: "one who was"-kit -> new, how ask? cheated a bit by taking your example and running with it.

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Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com
Biology professor at the University of Washington. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. I wrote a book: *Calling Bullshit*: tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b I love ravens and crows: tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk he/him
48.2k followers1.6k following4.5k posts