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Sep 9, 2026 12 min

Error Detection and Flipping the Bits - Computerphile

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Devising codes for different weather states is all well and good, but what if the weather strikes back? Electrical storms can distort codes and noisy lines can confuse things, Professor Brailsford shows us one way of building redundancy into the system.Is Zero Even? - Numberphile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t1TC-5OLdM Mainframes and the Unix Revolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rPPqm44xLsA Career in Video Games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9igeV_YV-sProfessor Brailsford on Compression: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lto-ajuqW3wProfessor Brailsford on Entropy in Compression: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5c_RFKVkkoSound Effects courtesy of http://www.freesfx.co.uk/http://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at:http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/...

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