A universal system for decoding any type of data sent across a network

"While the noise appears random in nature, it has a probabilistic structure that allows the algorithm to guess what it might be."

"The researchers tested the GRAND chip and found it could effectively decode any moderate redundancy code up to 128 bits in length, with only about a microsecond of latency."

What a poorly worded title. For those browsing, this is referring to error codes and the like.

Journal paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8630851 PDF: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/129702/1802.0...

Also conf paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9517890 for which PDF can be obtained via scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Mana...

I tested this article and found it free of both errors and information.

What about FPGA's it's a chip capable of decoding any data sent across a network and correcting errors! /s I guess the clever part here with this algorithm is that it tries to figure error correction automatically instead of having to have someone make a design like on a fpga.

I find a part of the subtitle a bit self-contradictory:

"New chip eliminates the need for specific decoding hardware"

I can't help but think that this would be primarily used for censorship and breaking net neutrality.