"... Google Translate used to involve 500,000 lines of code. Nowadays its just about 500 lines in a machine learning language." --Zeynep Tufekci, "Should Kids Learn to Code", Scientific American, August 2019, p. 77.
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It's meaningless. That machine learning code probably uses a software library which itself was compiled from 500k (or however many) lines of code.
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When you produce code in C++ you don't count the compiler or the machine code in the exec when quoting its line count. Modern applications sit on many layers from the source to supporting libraries to compilers to lower level libraries to the kernel--and that's at a minimum.
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