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I don’t think the reading method is a substitute for checksums and so on.

You would still read the exact same data you write, even if part of the process is not deterministic.

That doesn't sound good in terms of future-proofing this technology. If I want to read stuff 200 years from now, the knowledge necessary for that process will be buried deep inside some opaque ML blob.

When they say machine learning, do they really just mean error correcting codes and convolutional encoding? Is this just a case of using buzzwords or is the ML just doing RS/Viterbi?

Not really… You have a signal that has noise, and the goal is to get eliminate the noise.

In 200 years the goal will be the same, and hopefully we will have a better algorithm of eliminating the noise.

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