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Summary

Why some numbers just dont work when you're creating error proof Brian Kernighan, the man who wrote the definitive This installment of the Bletchley Park series has a personal note for Professor Brailsford. He tells us what his dad did in the war. Enigma is known as the WWII cipher, but how does it hold up in 2021? Dr Mike Pound implemented it and shows how it stacks up ... Mike explains a paper from the University of Maryland, proposing a neat trick to 'watermark' the output of large language models ... Moving on from crude error correction to more sophisticated methods, Professor Brailsford demostrates using the ISBN ' Summing up why Hamming's error correcting The Bit Blit algorithm dates back to Xerox PARC, but was famously used to sell the Amiga home computer among others. Dr Steve ... Security of users' passwords should be at the forefront of every web developer's mind. Tom takes us through the insecure ways in ... Turing Machines are the basis of modern computing, but what actually is a Turing Machine? Assistant Professor Mark Jago ... It's all about the input. You can't always give all a function's inputs at the same time. Professor Graham Hutton explains about ... Standard progamming libraries - but how do they work? Dr Steve Bagley links us to the details. What Happend When ... Hitler's High Command didn't use Enigma, they used a faster system called Lorenz, but when Allied forces first encountered it, ...