@tao "the beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers", I think? I'm probably doing it wrong as I expected 1-bit errors but thought I had more. Wrote some python finding closest hamming distances to letters in the cartoon, then added new guesses when the unknown had distance 3, repeat

@bazzargh @tao i independently got the exact same text! i checked and i dont see any errors bigger than 1 bit. though if you guess the bit pattern for a letter incorrectly it can look like there are 2 bit errors (one from the guess being wrong and another from the message)