Live data from Hacker News

What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

arxiv.org

1–10 of 71 posts

Re: What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

#4
As a high schooler interested in things that are probably out of my league, I love reading this kind of stuff. The author mentions their unconventional style at the beginning: hyperlinks, color, italics, exclamations, parentheses, side notes, etc. They address your thoughts and craft their explanations around them instead of being terse and optimizing for length.

The author's blog [1] has more of this style and has really helped me get deeper into category theory. Without it, I wouldn't have even begun to try and understand things like the Yoneda lemma (which still remains a mystery to me).

Does anyone know any other papers or resources with this style? Maybe something like "explorable explanations" [2]?

[1] https://www.math3ma.com/

[2] https://explorabl.es/

Re: What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

#5
post #4

As a high schooler interested in things that are probably out of my league, I love reading this kind of stuff. The author mentions their unconventional style at the beginning: hyperlinks, color, italics, exclamations, parentheses, side notes, etc. They address your thoughts and craft their explanations around them instead of being terse and optimizing for length. The author's blog [1] has more of this style and has r…

I don't have any resources to share on this, but I was also interested in this type of thing at your age (still am). If it interests you, never assume something is out of your league.

You have time on your side. Sustained effort compounded over time is unreasonably powerful. Keep pushing!

Re: What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

#6
post #4

As a high schooler interested in things that are probably out of my league, I love reading this kind of stuff. The author mentions their unconventional style at the beginning: hyperlinks, color, italics, exclamations, parentheses, side notes, etc. They address your thoughts and craft their explanations around them instead of being terse and optimizing for length. The author's blog [1] has more of this style and has r…

https://betterexplained.com if you haven’t been through it yet.

Already often quoted on HN, and some discussions are interesting with the author bringing feedback. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbetterexplained.com

Re: What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

#7
post #3

If the author’s name sounds familiar despite you not being in this field: she is writing the excellent blog at https://www.math3ma.com and you might know her from there. Articles of this blog are submitted here from time to time.

She also hosted the YouTube math channel PBS Infinite Series.

https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsinfiniteseries/featured

Re: What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

#8
post #7
post #3

If the author’s name sounds familiar despite you not being in this field: she is writing the excellent blog at https://www.math3ma.com and you might know her from there. Articles of this blog are submitted here from time to time.

She also hosted the YouTube math channel PBS Infinite Series. https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsinfiniteseries/featured

Two points to you for nerd-sniping a physicist with the "assassin problem" episode that auto-ran when I followed the link. Have a nice day!

Re: What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

#9
post #4

As a high schooler interested in things that are probably out of my league, I love reading this kind of stuff. The author mentions their unconventional style at the beginning: hyperlinks, color, italics, exclamations, parentheses, side notes, etc. They address your thoughts and craft their explanations around them instead of being terse and optimizing for length. The author's blog [1] has more of this style and has r…

[deleted]
Post reply on HN