A cleaner perspective on Hamming error correction codes
Part 1:    • But what are Hamming codes? The origi...  
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You can read Hamming's own perspective on his discovery of these codes in chapter 12 of "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering".
https://amzn.to/3lwcnmh

Heavily related is the chessboard puzzle I did with Matt Parker:
   • The almost impossible chessboard puzzle  

If you're curious to learn a bit about Shannon, the father of information theory, take a look at this documentary.
https://amzn.to/2RHK5HL

Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations
Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
Hungarian: FaboBence

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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.

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