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Thank you. I’ll check it out

• dragontamer 6y ago
  You might have better luck consulting actual textbooks. I don't think what I've found on the internet is very clearly written. I'm seriously considering buying some textbooks on coding theory, but since this is just idle curiosity... I'm not sure if its worth the effort, lol.
  • Anon84 6y ago
    I come from a very different background, so it’s mostly idle curiosity as well. I’ll take a look and if something looks interesting I might dig into it in a post or two
    • dragontamer 6y ago
      Looking over those PH.D thesis pages... something to note: * codeword = data * generator_matrix * codeword * check_matrix = 0_vector * senseword = codeword + error_vector * senseword * check_matrix = syndrome_vector (Yeah, this field likes "horizontal" data vectors. Its weird but you get used to it...) ------ The job of error correction is usually to convert sensewords back into data. Sensewords represent "what the receiver sensed". If no errors occurred, its usually very easy to convert sensewords back into data... but if an error occurred, then you must calculate the syndromes and then figure out a methodology to correct the errors. Coding schemes set up the matrix in different ways. It seems like Vertibi Algorithm has a graphical representation of the matrix, or something... I still don't understand it but hopefully this post of mine can give you a leg up in understanding what's going on.