DeepCoder is a machine learning system that can write its own code ... learning algorithm, every time it's given a new problem, it gets better at combining lines from source codes. Image credit ...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control ... or even a date that fell flat. Facial recognition leading to wrongful arrests.

[Dominic Szablewski] was tinkering around with compressing RGB images, when he stumbled upon idea of how to make a simple lossless compression algorithm ... a miniscule 300 lines of C.

The misleading posts, on Reddit and Twitter, said Chael alone had authored “850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black-hole image algorithm!” However ...

“It can discover algorithms of remarkable complexity — spanning hundreds of lines of code with sophisticated logical structures that go far beyond simple functions.” The system dramatically ...