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Re:Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020? by eeZah7Ux on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:43PM (#25352512)
Erasure coding was already used in storage tapes in 1985.

> some clever information theory tricks is mind bending to me

It's a pretty trivial first-degree linear function, y = ax + b

Re:Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020? by eeZah7Ux on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:20PM (#25364166)
And why all the downvotes?