Show newer

This is driving me insane: I used to use this website that was *just* a text form you could type into, and whatever you typed would (maybe?) be there when you came back (using cookies, not logins). It may have had some very barebones formatting stuff. Anyone know what this is?

RT @mattparlmer
Shopping around for webapp kits in ReasonML or OCaml, would like something that has batteries included and sensible defaults, doesn't need to be a big project, just something that mostly works and has at least two maintainers, curious if anybody has thoughts on this

Okay, the fact that you can do this is a pretty nice feature of the remarkable.

Disappointed that this isn't about applications of computational complexity theory to economics
---
RT @Sean_Leaver
'Economic complexity theory and applications' by @cesifoti , published in Nature recently.

h/t @trentjmacdonald

static1.squarespace.com/static
twitter.com/Sean_Leaver/status

"Here's how we do it. First, we hijack a cargo ship and jam it across the suez canal, temporarily halting ship traffic between the North Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.

Can someone make a browser plug-in that auto-accepts cookies?

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between presheaves & objects. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

If C is a symmetric monoidal category with object set A, then the morphisms in C form an algebra of some operad of "wiring diagrams" (i.e string diagrams with holes) labeled by the objects of A. This seems to be mostly folklore, is there a good reference anywhere?

Maybe these don't exist because category theory can only prove neat results 🤔

Show thread

I guess any equivalence of categories is like this, but I'm wondering whether we have more sort of "case analysis"-type results. Not "An X is the same as a Y" but "An X is either a Y or a Z".

Show thread

Random early-morning thought: are there any "classification theorems" in category theory? Theorems to the effect that any object of type XYZ has either form A, B, or C? Eg the classification of finite simple groups

RT @worrydream
The typesetter wipes his brow with his sleeve, takes a swig of whisky, unlocks a box labeled THE BIG INTEGRAL.

I am generally looking for *papers*, i.e not several hundred pages, mostly original ideas, as opposed to textbook introductions to category theory.

Show thread

What are some papers about category theory everyone should read? (by everyone let's say everyone who wants to "learn category theory", whatever that means)

Small brain: Using X,Y,Z as stand-in variables when speaking of a mapping "in itself"
Medium brain: Using -, \cdot, =, etc as stand-in variable
Daniel Kan brain:

Show older
Mastodon

a Schelling point for those who seek one