handojin
Re:A Thing Exists
on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:05PM (#50312849)
Widespread vulns & llms. Resnoot?
The Universal Weight Subspace Hypothesis
Re:The Universal Weight Subspace Hypothesis
on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:50AM (#46193684)
"We show that backpropagated neural networks trained on a variety of datasets - which could be
disjoint and unrelated - diverse hyper-parameter settings, initializations and regularization methods, often learn an architecture-specific, layer-wise similar, low-rank joint subspaces (we refer to this as the Universal Subspace). We provide the first large-scale empirical analysis - across a diverse set of models - that neural networks tend to converge to these joint subspaces, largely independent of their initialization or the specific data used for training."
Re:Does or did COBOL default to 1875-05-20 for corrupt or missing dates?
on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:46PM (#43074004)
I think you have to read this one generously. The claim isn't about how COBOL works, except incidentally. It's more along the following lines:
COBOL doesn't have a default date/time type
As such implementation decisions are left to the implementor
The implementors* of the SS system chose 1875 as the epoch date for reasons
*I made a lot of money in 1999. The original implementors of SS probably used something else ("it'll be rewritten before this is a problem" was essentially the whole raison de etre of Y2K). The 1875 thing, if it's a thing, was probably the result of Y2K work. But I have no direct knowledge of these matters.
Re:State and time are the same thing
on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:51AM (#41387441)
Only replying because playing same thought in head. Once two points relation exists. Simplest form distance. Either may be considered centre. Infinite points exist along that relation. And more can be imagined. The set of all points having the same distance from A as the distance from A to B etc.
Re:0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE
on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @01:33AM (#41232561)
Testicle. It's a small unit test.
Eight Lectures on Yoga
Re:Open Sourcing DOS 4
on Friday April 26, 2024 @01:23AM (#40166185)
seems lacking in gratitude. how about kthxbye()?
Re:Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crac...
on Friday April 19, 2024 @08:51PM (#40093523)
The whole is better than the sum of the parts. You have nostradamus which predicts the future, fork bot which plays all playable presents, and the psychic friends network which rewrites the past. All under the watchful eye of the matrix.
There's something beautiful here and you honestly couldn't make it up.
Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing Shortage
on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @10:23PM (#39699999)
It's easy to do that.
Re:Flexible Schemas Are the Mindkiller – Ludicity
on Friday March 01, 2024 @10:46AM (#39562828)
“Future users of large data banks must be
protected from having to know how the data is
organized in the machine (the internal
representation)… Activities of users at
terminals and most application programs
should remain unaffected when the internal
representation of data is changed and even
when some aspects of the external
representation are changed…”
Roll the related data up into materialized views for read performance.
Re:Flexible Schemas Are the Mindkiller – Ludicity
on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:00AM (#39559633)
You have just invented 6th normal form. This is not a bad thing.
Re:Mysticism and Empiricism
on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:44PM (#38976553)
But this is a bit silly surely? If they are different ways of talking about the same thing then one might as well label oneself a 'mentalist' and say "physical processes don't 'have mental effects', they just flat out are mental processes."
I think what you're going for is a species of monism maybe? The idea that Thought and Extension are attributes of one Substance?
Re:Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC
on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:45AM (#38948659)
I think the joke is sailing over your head?
Re:Stop building databases
on Friday December 01, 2023 @08:36PM (#38494948)
CouchDB is a lineal descendant I guess.
Re:Maryland Fried chicken: A storied dish with Titanic history
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @08:18PM (#38272190)
You do be making a good point.
Re:Ask HN: How often do you get a haircut and how much does it cost you?
on Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:15AM (#37185439)
Once when I was young
And in the care of laundanum
I woke and found my hair
Had lost desire to be there
A choice decision then Birds have clipped wings Ten pound, checkbook, and a pen Wahl razor and, well, other things
Re:Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job
on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:31PM (#37184538)
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.praxisframework.org...
cf. STEP 3 "Do it twice."
Re:Flann O’Brien Splits the Atom
on Thursday May 18, 2023 @12:33AM (#35984157)
"I am no judge of poetry – the only poem I ever wrote was produced when I was body and soul in the gilded harness of Dame Laudanum – but I think Mr Kavanagh is on the right track here. Perhaps the Irish Times, timeless champion of our peasantry, will oblige us with a series in this strain covering such rural complexities as inflamed goat-udders, warble-pocked shorthorn, contagious abortion, non-ovoid oviducts and nervous disorders among the gentlemen who pay the rent"
I'd add a note to say some more or whisper Latin at the door but I have promises to keep and Myles to go before I sleep...
Re:No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
on Sunday April 30, 2023 @11:28PM (#35768794)
Let's say for a second the King (or Crown, it makes no odds) owns your swans, but you'd rather he not own them. What'd be your recourse?
Presumably the King (or Crown, it makes no odds) once owned all the swans in Ireland too. Then one day didn't. Now those swans are free swans living in an actual, honest to God, Republic. Technically the ones in the North are still his but their ownership status is disputed. The swans that fly back and forth I'm not sure what to do about, post Brexit arrangements being shoddy at best.
All this talk of ownership seems to confuse power with right, right with tradition, tradition with law, law with power.
And power grows from the barrel of a gun.
Re:Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)
on Saturday September 03, 2022 @01:53AM (#32699135)
"Leading Change" by John Kotter as far as I recall.
Re:New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at lo...
on Sunday August 21, 2022 @08:51PM (#32546039)
(Cough) homeopathy (cough)
Give 'em five hot minutes...
Re:Agile projects have become waterfall projects with sprints
on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:11AM (#32505172)
Basically a new thing has been introduced into the world and the world has tried to fit it into an existing paradigm and when it doesn't fit, well let's invent a new paradigm that looks like the old one but better...
The problem isn't how the business solves software. It's how software dissolves the business.
Cyc? It's still a going concern - www.cyc.com
Re:Don't Be Stoic: Roman Stoicism’s origins show its perniciousness
on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:04AM (#31762354)
https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Nietzsche-The-B...
Fagamid suid mar a te se
Re:Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?
on Sunday March 27, 2022 @09:18PM (#30825976)
Discipline and Punish (Michel Foucault)
Not my field of study or existence, but what happened in a bare hundred years to make public execution private, and prisons into factories into schools?
It's a great book, you should read it.
The Republic (Plato)
How do you get someone to listen to you? (first answer: threaten them with violence). "Footnotes to" etc.
Re:What sonic black holes say about real ones
on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:17PM (#30019100)
fearful symmetry
Re:We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apar...
on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:37PM (#27774396)
communism