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Sep 12, 2021

I'm back to my old ways again (borrowing a textbook on category theory under the delusion that now this time I'll really have a good motive for learning category theory knowing that I'll read ten pages of it and forget about it until it's due back)

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Jon

@ionathanch

Sep 12, 2021

The only thing worse than math making up nonsense words for things is when they take ordinary words and make them have nonsense meanings

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Sep 12, 2021

ncatlab.org/nlab/show/gene

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if you stare at ‘the’ long enough, it turns into category theory nonsense

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Honestly this is actually a decent use of CT: taking standard abuse of notation and turning the underlying design pattern into actual mathematics.

Paolo G. Giarrusso

@Blaisorblade

Sep 12, 2021

And "the implies uniqueness" agrees with usual language well. I say *the* Eiffel tower 😀

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