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How Can Math Protect Our Data?

Every time data travels — from smartphones to the cloud, or across the vacuum of space — it relies on a silent but vigilant guardian in the form of error-correcting codes. These codes, baked into nearly every digital system, are designed to detect and repair any errors that noise, interference or cosmic rays might inflict. In this episode of The Joy of Why, Stanford computer scientist Mary.

In this episode of The Joy of Why, Stanford computer scientist Mary.

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