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New comment by handojin in "The Universal Weight Subspace Hypothesis"

handojin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:50:17 +0000

"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."

The Universal Weight Subspace Hypothesis

handojin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193683

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by handojin in "Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?"

handojin — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:46:32 +0000

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.

New comment by handojin in "State and time are the same thing"

handojin — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:51:16 +0000

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.

New comment by handojin in "0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)"

handojin — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 05:33:39 +0000

Testicle. It's a small unit test.

Eight Lectures on Yoga

handojin — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 02:06:38 +0000

Article URL: https://hermetic.com/crowley/eight-lectures-on-yoga/index

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40772176

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by handojin in "Open Sourcing DOS 4"

handojin — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:23:00 +0000

seems lacking in gratitude. how about kthxbye()?

New comment by handojin in "Krazam OS"

handojin — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:02:55 +0000

You made me laugh. I think I love you.

New comment by handojin in "Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG"

handojin — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:51:29 +0000

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.

New comment by handojin in "Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage"

handojin — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:23:08 +0000

It's easy to do that.

New comment by handojin in "Flexible schemas are the mindkiller"

handojin — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:46:38 +0000

“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.

New comment by handojin in "Flexible schemas are the mindkiller"

handojin — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 08:00:36 +0000

You have just invented 6th normal form. This is not a bad thing.

New comment by handojin in "Mysticism and Empiricism"

handojin — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:44:51 +0000

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/

New comment by handojin in "Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC"

handojin — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:45:59 +0000

I think the joke is sailing over your head?

New comment by handojin in "Accidental database programming"

handojin — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 01:36:31 +0000

CouchDB is a lineal descendant I guess.

New comment by handojin in "Maryland Fried chicken: A storied dish with Titanic history"

handojin — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 01:18:34 +0000

You do be making a good point.

New comment by handojin in "Ask HN: How often do you get a haircut and how much does it cost you?"

handojin — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:15:01 +0000

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

New comment by handojin in "Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job"

handojin — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 01:31:17 +0000

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.praxisframework.org...

cf. STEP 3 "Do it twice."

New comment by handojin in "Flann O’Brien Splits the Atom (1967)"

handojin — Thu, 18 May 2023 04:33:57 +0000

"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...

New comment by handojin in "The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain"

handojin — Mon, 01 May 2023 03:28:20 +0000

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.