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n. - The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text.

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  • As detailed on Boing Boing, the decoding is actually a relatively simple photoshop process, but the NYTimes interestingly calls it a "virtuoso act of electronic...
  • Bzzz. Comparing Blu-Ray decoding to Hulu decoding is very misleading.
  • But the initial decoding from a digital sequence into a character sequence is sufficient to illustrate genetic decoding.
  • Symbolic language would be helpful in decoding the message on the disc, but this is separate from the detection of design.
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