The instructions a programmer writes when creating a program. Lines of code are the "source code" of the program, and one line may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the ...

Go ahead and take a wild guess as to how many lines of code make up the entirety of Google’s services. We’re talking everything here — search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs etc. Now you might want to ...

A military drone has 3.5 million lines of code inside. That’s roughly three times as many as we find in bacteria, meaning that mankind has, at least by one metric, constructed semi-autonomous ...

Most artificial intelligence systems can be advanced by adding more: more computing power, more lines of code, more analysis, more neural networks, more machine learning. With only five lines of code, ...

One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr’s On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this ...

Andrei Alexandrescu is, according to his website, a research scientist at Facebook, and he’s just announced via a tweet that he’s just completed the “First D language commit at Facebook. 5112 lines of ...

Neural networks have gone mainstream with a lot of heavy-duty — and heavy-weight — tools and libraries. What if you want to fit a network into a little computer? There’s tinn — the tiny neural network ...

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Last weekend, some anonymous “specialist” told the New York Times that “5 million lines of software code may need to be rewritten” in order to fix the mess that is healthcare.gov. (The good news, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars this week, to the great relief – and joy – of many. Now, of course, the fun part begins: letting this Mini Cooper-sized nuclear-powered mobile ...