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Philip Koop's avatar

It is very funny to me that the company with the hubris to call its system "Claude [Shannon]" measures a program by the number of squiggles it would occupy on a screen rather than its Kolmogorov complexity.

Katherine Richards's avatar

Ah, yes! The old "lines of Code" metric ... heh

A. Reader's avatar

Are you fairly sure that all the behaviors of your new VW microbus are as they were originally programmed to be?

A. Reader's avatar

(also, is this thing on, and does it have a man in the middle)

S.R. Lawton's avatar

Again, the mythical man-month of programmer productivity. Top performers write code many, many times more effective in delivering function than average performers.