Code Libraries Computerphile

Summary

The original version of text messaging had a flaw, but how can we investigate problems with software quickly and easily? How does data get organised to be stored or sent serially? Matt Godbolt explains some of the encoding used in old devices  ... Websites & https what difference does the "s" make anyway? - Dr Richard Mortier of the University of Cambridge Computer ... Knuth talked about "Literate Programming" over forty years ago, but what does it mean to have Why some numbers just dont work when you're creating error proof The ultimate example of trouble from digital promiscuity. HTML is more tolerant than C because it has to be. Professor Brailsford ... A web app that works out how many seconds ago something happened. How hard can Just how simple can a web server be? Laurence Tratt, Shopify / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Language ... Encoding recursion in the Lambda calculus, one of Professor Graham Hutton's favourite functions. Lambda Calculus: ... Programs aren't capable of generating true random numbers, so how can we? Are they even useful? Dr Valerio Giuffrida ... Wanacrypt works super fast and even when you're offline. Dr Pound explains how hybrid ransomware systems work. Original ...