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Comment · 8 days ago
Widespread vulns & llms. Resnoot?
Comment · 11 months ago
"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."
Comment · 1 year ago
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.

Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
Testicle. It's a small unit test.
Comment · 2 years ago
seems lacking in gratitude. how about kthxbye()?
Comment · 2 years ago
You made me laugh. I think I love you.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.

Comment · 2 years ago
It's easy to do that.
Comment · 2 years ago
“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.

Comment · 2 years ago
You have just invented 6th normal form. This is not a bad thing.
Comment · 2 years ago

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