As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Growing up in the science fiction-infused 1960s and ’70s, nothing excited me more than computers’ potential to ...

Elon Musk reveals a 5-point algorithm to enhance productivity and reduce errors at his companies, including Tesla and SpaceX. The algorithm includes questioning every requirement, deleting unnecessary ...

Pseudocode is not an actual programming language. Instead, it is a simple way of describing a set of instructions in a manner that resembles a programming language. It has its own syntax, some of ...

Poor policy outcomes are not the responsibility of ‘mutant maths’, but of choices made by people in power A year ago, when the prime minister blamed a “mutant algorithm” for A-level students receiving ...

This simple pseudo-code algorithm asks a user to input what their favourite subject is: WHILE answer <> 'computer science' DO SEND 'What is your favourite subject?' TO DISPLAY RECEIVE answer FROM ...