This video explores Richard Hamming’s elegant solution to error correction, and how redundancy became one of the foundational ideas behind reliable digital communication.

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

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