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"Applied Category Theory" almost seems a bit tongue-in-cheek to me, given Category Theory is designed to distill the concepts found in a bunch of different "app
by marquis-chacha 7y ago
"Applied Category Theory" almost seems a bit tongue-in-cheek to me, given Category Theory is designed to distill the concepts found in a bunch of different "applied" fields into one, theoretical, framework. (That was my impression from the intro lecture, at least)
- brianberns 7y agoThey should call the class “Concrete Nonsense” (since category theory itself is sometimes described as “abstract nonsense”).
- saidajigumi 7y agoWhich phrase, I note with profound glee, has its own Wikipedia page for precisely this usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense
- dizziest 7y agoThank you! I couldn't verbalize it until your comment :)
- quickthrower2 7y agoMaybe “Brutalist Nonsense”