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handojin··on The Universal Weight Subspace Hypothesis
"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."
handojin··on Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
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.

handojin··on State and time are the same thing
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.
handojin··on 0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)
Testicle. It's a small unit test.
handojin··on Open Sourcing DOS 4
seems lacking in gratitude. how about kthxbye()?
handojin··on Krazam OS
You made me laugh. I think I love you.
handojin··on Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG
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.

handojin··on Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage
It's easy to do that.
handojin··on Flexible schemas are the mindkiller
“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.

handojin··on Flexible schemas are the mindkiller
You have just invented 6th normal form. This is not a bad thing.
handojin··on Mysticism and Empiricism
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?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-attributes/

handojin··on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC
I think the joke is sailing over your head?
handojin··on Accidental database programming
CouchDB is a lineal descendant I guess.
handojin··on Maryland Fried chicken: A storied dish with Titanic history
You do be making a good point.
handojin··on Ask HN: How often do you get a haircut and how much does it cost you?
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

handojin··on Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.praxisframework.org...

cf. STEP 3 "Do it twice."

handojin··on Flann O’Brien Splits the Atom (1967)
"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...

handojin··on The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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.

handojin··on Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)
"Leading Change" by John Kotter as far as I recall.
handojin··on New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at low temperature
(Cough) homeopathy (cough)

Give 'em five hot minutes...

handojin··on Agile projects have become waterfall projects with sprints
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.

handojin··on SHRDLU
Cyc? It's still a going concern - www.cyc.com
handojin··on Don't Be Stoic: Roman Stoicism’s origins show its perniciousness
https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Nietzsche-The-B...

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handojin··on Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?
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.

handojin··on What sonic black holes say about real ones
fearful symmetry
handojin··on We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
communism
handojin··on 1992: Silverwolf
Yeah. You'd have to practice absolute discretion to avoid that kind of harrassment. That'd make you hard to find.
handojin··on Odds of Dying
like suicide at 1:88
handojin··on What If You Could Do It All Over?
You could find yourself living the Strange Life of Ivan Osokin?
handojin··on Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate
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