But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction
A discovery-oriented introduction to error correction codes.
Part 2:
Ben Eater:’s take:
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Heavily related is the chessboard puzzle I did with Matt Parker:
You can read Hamming’s own perspective on his discovery of these codes in chapter 12 of “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering“.
The viewer Harry Li made an interactive on this topic:
Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations
Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
Hungarian: Fabó Bence
Spanish: agustin-j
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These animations are largely made using manim, a scrappy open-source python library:
If you want to check it out, I feel compelled to warn you that it’s not the most well-documented tool, and it has many other quirks you might expect in a library someone wrote with only their own use in mind.
Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
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