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What is the most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written?

John Byrd, BA Computer Science, Harvard University (1991)

Updated 32w ago · Featured on Quora's Twitter · Upvoted by Chiranjeevi Ram, M.S. Software Engineering, Arizona State University (2019) and Ramchalam Kr, MS Computer Science, McGill University (2018) · Author has 308 answers and 4.7m answer views

Buckle in.

The most sophisticated software in history was written by a team of people whose names we do not know.

It’s a computer worm. The worm was written, probably, between 2005 and 2010.

Because t...

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How can beginners in machine learning, who have finished their MOOCs in machine learning and deep learning, take it to the next level and get to the point of being able to read research papers & productively contribute in an industry?

Andrew Ng, Co-founder of Coursera; Adjunct Professor of Stanford

Answered 70w ago · Featured on Quora Sessions's Twitter · Upvoted by Sheshnath Yadav, Masters Computer Science, New York University (2017) and Shumail Mohyuddin, M.Sc Computer Science, Technical University of Munich (2018)

Courses are a very very efficient way to learn, so starting there definitely makes sense. After finishing the ML MOOC (ml-class.org) and Deep learning specialization (http://deeplearning.ai), here’...

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Why is pumping lemma even taught in computer science courses if we will never use it?

Jonas Oberhauser, Happy Husband and Computer Scientist

Answered 12w ago · Upvoted by Sumant Hegde, Masters Theoretical Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2017) and Karthik Abinav, PhD Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park (2019) · Author has 1.4k answers and 1.9m answer views

What are you talking about?

Just two weeks ago, someone on Quora asked the following question:

“How do I write a regular expression that matches exactly those strings consisting of ‘a’s and ‘b’s wher...

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What is new in the programming world?

Nick Pappas, Lectured OOP and Java at UW-Madison. Master's in theoretical computer science.

Answered 12w ago · Upvoted by Najib Fadil نجييب فاضل, Master Computer Science & Computer Networking, IGA Casablanca (2004) and Venkata Trived Menta, M.S. Computer Science, University of Florida (2017) · Author has 155 answers and 2.8m answer views

This:

is definitely new.

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What screams "I'm a Computer Science major"?

Oscar Parra, B.A. Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz (2018)

Updated 22w ago · Upvoted by Iddo Hanniel, PhD in Computer Science and Himanshu Tyagi, MS Computer Science, Arizona State University (2017)

You starting count at 0…

You think incessantly about how to optimize everything: grocery store lines, automating tedious tasks, making traffic more efficient

You love coffee, you’d rather go without ...

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