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Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code

The Quanta Podcast

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A team of researchers has finally created a long sought, locally testable code that can immediately reveal whether it's been corrupted. Tom gur says it's one of the most remarkable phenomena that he knows of in mathematics or computer science. Mathu sudon is a computer scientist at harvard university. Their new technique transforms a message into a super canary - an object that testifies to its own health better than any other message yet known.

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